AM History Fall Final Semester

True or False: Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was to be more relaxed in an attempt to better reunite the country and move forward, while the Radical Republicans' plans for Reconstruction was to harshly punish the southern states for having started the Civil War.

• True

• False

This term is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

• Sharecropping

• Tenement Farms

• Slave Labor

• None of these

This amendment granted citizenship and equal rights, as well as legal protections, to anyone born in the United States. It was passed in the years following the end of the Civil War and passage of the 13th amendment, which ended slavery forever, in an attempt to place former slaves on equal footing as everyone else.

• 14th

• 19th

• 13th

• 10th

This act provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

• Civil Rights Act

Select all that apply: At the turn of the 19th century, or 1800's, which of the following technological advances made farming easier and more profitable than every before?

• Railroads

• Barbed Wire Fencing

• Steel Plow

• Mechanical Reaper

• Steamboats

What was the goal, or aim, of the Dawes Act?

• The federal government aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture.

• The federal government aimed to assimilate African Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture.

• The federal government aimed to assimilate Chinese Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture.

• None of these

True or False: During the second Industrial Revolution, rapid advances in the creation of textiles, coal and iron helped fuel production, including mass-produced consumer goods and weapons. It became far easier to get around on trains, automobiles and bicycles. At the same time, ideas and news spread via newspapers, the radio and telegraph.

• False

• True

Answer explanation

The first industrial revolution focused on textile production, as well as, coal extraction and mass producing iron. These had mostly been replaced by items in the second wave of industrialization, such as steel, chemicals and oil.

What two products would allow for the second industrial revolution to take off and fundamentally change the United States by the beginning of the 1900's?

• Oil

• Steel

• Coal

• Iron

• Steam

What would occur due to the increased income gap between the rich and poor as a result of the rise of big business in the late 1800's?

• It would result in the rich getting extremely rich, while the middle class shrank.

• It would result in the middle class getting wealthier, while the wealthy class shrank.

• It would result in the poor getting wealthier, while the middle class shrank.

• None of these

What is laissez faire capitalism?

• This is where the government largely stays out of the affairs of businesses and allows them to operate completely on their own.

• This is where the government somewhat gets involved in the affairs of businesses and allows them to operate with government assistance.

• This is where the government completely controls business affairs and does not allow private citizens to manage their own businesses.

• None of these