Quarter 1 Review

Who were 'carpetbaggers'?

• Northerners who came South to take advantage

• Southerners who went North to take advantage

• Northern politicians who provided goods to those in the South

• Southern people who hated Reconstruction

Who's MAIN priority was to protect the rights of skilled laborers?

• John P. Morgan

• Samuel Gompers

• Terrence Powderly

• Henry Bessemer

Thomas Edisons light bulb made the U.S. Economy better by

• reducing shipping time for goods
• allowing people to see the awful conditions they worked in causing strikes
• allowed the production to continue at night 
• telephone allowed long distance communication

What is assimilation?

• Stripping away someones culture and beliefs in favor of western ones
• absorbing someone by touch
• taking in of new knowledge in special schools
• moving of a group or person to a new area because of discrimination

What three things did labor unions fight for?

• better food, mansions and more accessible health care
• Safe working conditions, Shorter work days and Higher wages
• Better prison sentences, nicer beds, and higher wages
• Promotions for women, more jobs for immigrants, less working in factories 

The theory used by the wealthy to justify their wealth and treatment of the poor.  

• Darwinism
• Natural Selection
• Selectionism
• Social Darwinism

The Bessemer Process

• Enabled the growth of cities and fostered transportation
• Resulted in extended work hours as it banished the darkness
• was implemented in most factories to increase productivity
• was credited to Henry Bessemer though Andrew Carnegie invented it

Which statement best explains what the Dawes Act did?

• a.  it took tribal lands from Native Americans, cut them into family-sized parcels, and sold leftover land to whites
• a.  it put bounties on buffalo, with the goal of starving the Native Americans
• a.  it gave free land to white settlers
• it allowed the railroads to build on private land

Strict punishment of Confederate veterans and financial assistance to African Americans were policies pushed by which of the following group during the Reconstruction Era?

• 
  Radical Democrats
• Moderate Republicans
• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Democrats

The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to give all American citizens equal protection under the law
• to abolish slavery
• 
  to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America