Assignment
1) What were the six key events relating to Lincoln's assassination?
2) Define the following Conspiracy Theories:
a) Pre-assassination abduction Simple Conspiracy Grand Conspiracy
b) Eisenschmil's Grand Conspiracy Andrew Johnson Pope Pius IX
3) What was the purpose of the freedman's bureau?
4) What was the requirement of the 13th amendment?
5) Who were the Radical Republicans?
6) What was the difference between President Lincoln's reconstruction plan and Andrew Johnson's Plan?
7) Why was the conflict between Andrew Johnson and Congress a surprise based on Johnson's background?
8) What were the Black Codes?
9) Who wrote Been in the Storm so Long and what was the thesis of the book?
10) How would you describe the relationship between Congress and Andrew Johnson and what were three reasons for this type of relationship?
11) Describe the tenets of the 14th amendment?
12) What was the main result of Congress' Reconstruction Acts upon the southern states?
13) Who were the major generals of the military districts in the south?
14) What reason did Congress use to impeach Andrew Johnson?
15) What were the requirements of the 15th amendment?
16) Who were the scalawags and carpetbaggers?
17) What two black U.S. senators were elected during Reconstruction?
18) What was sharecropping and the crop-lien system?
19) What was the objective of the Union League of America and how did it differ from the Ku Klux Klan?
20) Describe two significant scandals during Ulysses Grant's administration?
21) What was Grant's position about blacks to help them escape southern labor?
22) What was Grant's response to the Panic of 1873?
23) Who was elected president in 1876 and how did the Compromise of 1877 affect that election?
24) What was the main provision of the Compromise of 1877 that affected blacks?
25) What were the five ways that southerners kept blacks from voting?
26) What were the common characteristics of Indians that lived on the Great Plains?
27) What are the names of the plains Indians discussed in the notes?
28) Describe three aspects of white settlement upon the Great Plains.
29) Name three wars discussed in the notes between the Native Americans and U.S. Army?
30) Who was Chief Joseph and Helen Hunt Jackson?
31) Define the following:
a) Dawes Severalty Act
b) Carlisle Indian School
c) Ghost Dance
d) Concentration
32) What happened at Pikes Peak Co. and Comstock Lode?
33) Name three inventions that helped the settlers to cross the plains.
34) What was the significance of Frederick Jackson Turner?
35) Name some of the struggles that farmers faced during the late 19th century.
36) Where was the Union and Central Pacific connected to make a transcontinental railroad?
37) What are some ways in which the railroad impacted America?
38) What did westerners do with their longhorn cattle and what was the key to controlling the land in the Great Plains?
39) What was the significance of Joseph Glidden?
40) Name four things that closed the open range.
41) What did George Eastman invent?
42) Who were Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Westinghouse and George Pullman?
43) How were time zones developed?
44) Who were the Pullman Porters and why were they important in history?
45) Who developed an invention stimulating the mass production of steel?
46) Who developed the 1st oil well?
47) What were some products that come from oil?
48) What was the impact of Alexander G. Bell, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller, Napoleon Hill?
49) What was the importance of the Gospel of Wealth?
50) What is the difference between horizontal integration and vertical integration?
51) What is a trust and how was it encouraged by the government's position of laissez faire?
52) What is the difference between Social Gospel and Social Darwinism? Name an advocate of each position.
53) What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
54) Describe the Supreme Court case titled the U.S. vs. E.C. Knight.
55) What were two labor unions formed during the late 19th century?
56) What were the five ways that business leaders would discourage strikes?
57) What were four jobs that hired women during this period?
58) Who was Kate Mullaney?
59) Name three 19th century farm machinery inventions.
60) Who laid the foundation for public schools?
61) Describe four ways that nativist reacted to the influx of new immigrants in the late 1800s.
62) How many immigrants came to America between 1880-1910?
63) Describe the invention for each of the following:
a) John Roebling
b) William Jenney
c) Alfred T. White
d) Frank Sprague
64) What is an ethnic neighborhood?
65) Who were James Naismith, Henry Wright, John L. Sullivan?
66) What was the significance of Hull House?
67) Why was the Morrill Act important?
68) Who presented the idea of electives in college?
69) What was the thesis of The School and Society in 1899?
70) What was the thesis of the books titled River of Empire, Contested Plain, and The Conquest of Texas?
71) What was the focus of Realist writers?
72) What term did Mark Twain develop and why was this term used to describe America during the late 19th century?
73) What was the significance of Joseph Pulitzer?
74) How would you describe the political division of this period?
75) What are the five major political issues of the late 1800s?
76) How did civil service reform affect President James Garfield and Charles Guiteau?
77) What was the Pendleton Act and it was signed under whose administration?
78) Who was the first democratic president after the U.S. civil war?
79) What was a law designed to limit the formation of trust?
80) What president was responsible for flag flying at schools and federal buildings?
81) What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896?
82) How was Bishop Henry Turner's position on segregation different from T.Thomas Fortune and Booker T. Washington?
83) What is the difference between accommodation and confrontation?
84) What was the problem of city bosses?
85) name three things that the Populist Party supported.
86) What caused the Depression of 1893?
87) Who won the election of 1896?
88) What group of people pushed for free coinage of silver and gold?
89) What did the Progressives believe about society?
90) Name some muckrakers and what did each try to expose through their writings.
91) What were some aspects of the Wisconsin Idea?
92) Describe the Supreme Court cases Lochner v. New York and Adkins v. Children's Hospital, Muller v. Oregon.
93) What is the 19th amendment and who are two famous women discussed in the notes that fought for this amendment?
94) Define the 16th and 17th amendments:
95) What happened to William McKinley in 1901 and why?
96) What was trust-busting and who gained this reputation?
97) What was the Hepburn Act and Pure Food and Drug Act?
98) Give three characteristics of William Howard Taft's administration.
99) Who were the candidates in the Election of 1912 and who won the presidency?
100) Define the following: Federal Reserve Board, Ida Wells, Niagara Movement, W.E.B. Dubois.