American History (Midterm Review)

an invention that combed seeds out of cotton which increased the production of cotton and the need for slave labor

• cotton gin

• steam locamotive

• inventor

• steamboat

The First Ten Amendments are know as the Bill of Rights

• True

• False

Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition.  Which amendment is this?

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 4th

A system in which the limits are placed on the branches of government, so no one branch becomes too powerful; also known as separation of powers

• Ratification
• Federal system
• Amendment
• Checks and Balances

Which two female leaders were heavily involved in both woman's suffrage and temperance movement?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul

• Lucy Burns and Alice Paul

• Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act; Prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another, if it would create a monopoly; Officers would be prosecuted if they did

• Federal Reserve Act
• Underwood Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Federal Trade Commission Act

An early 20th century movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life

• Progressive Movement
• Social Welfare
• Prohibition
• Socialism

Even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867.

• Poll Tax
• Grandfather Clause
• Jim Crow Laws
• Segregation

The separation of people on the basis of race

• Segregation
• Jim Crow Laws
• Separate But Equal
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and place people in public and private facilities.

• Jim Crow Laws
• Segregation 
• Separate But Equal
• Homer Plessy