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SS Midterm

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Homestead?

a)

  1. A grant that gave states land that they sold to fund the building of mechanical and agricultural schools like LSU.

b)

  1. A plot of land (160 acres) that was given to settlers under the Homestead Act. Settlers had to upkeep and farm the land for 5 years and then they could apply for the deed to the land.

c)

  1. A type of mining that required very simple tools to extract surface minerals like gold and silver

d)

  1. People who took care of and drove cattle to be shipped and processed. Once railroads expanded, cowboys were not needed as much.

2.

Describe farmers and farming in the West.

a)

  1. Barbed wire was created to keep grazing animals in or out of an area. This led to the end of cattle drives and open grazing.

b)

  1. A plot of land (160 acres) that was given to settlers under the Homestead Act. Settlers had to upkeep and farm the land for 5 years and then they could apply for the deed to the land.

c)

  1. There was no proof that Plessy was not provided with accommodations equal to those of the white passengers on board the train, therefore segregation was allowable

d)

  1. Many people came to the west after being given land through the Homestead Act and farmed that land. Farms first started out as small family farms and then developed into Bonanza farms owned by companies. As more settlers moved in, Native Americans grew upset which caused conflict with Native Americans. 

3.

  1. What was the Morrill Land Grant of 1862? What Louisiana University did it create? 

a)

  1. A grant that gave states land that they sold to fund the building of mechanical and agricultural schools like LSU.

b)

  1. Belief that African Americans would help end racial discrimination by advancement through education, work, and community activism

c)

  1. Right to vote

d)

  1. A grant that gave states land that they sold to fund the building of mechanical and agricultural schools like LSU.

4.

  1. What is placer mining? 

a)

  1. A type of mining that required very simple tools to extract surface minerals like gold and silver

b)

  1. Free people of color in New Orleans often had a mixed racial heritage and enjoyed more freedom in their businesses and social interactions

  2. 14th

c)

  1. Cultural Change

  2. Technological Innovation

  3. Technological Innovation

  4. Political Policy

d)

  1. Railroads

5.

  1. What new technology during this time required the standardization of time?

a)

Cultural Change

b)

  1. Political Policy

c)

  1. Railroads

d)

Technological Innovation

6.

Explain the importance of Barbed Wire in the American West.

a)

  1. Taking over another company that operates at the same level of the value chain. Both companies offer similar (if not the same) goods and services, and deal with a similar customer base.

b)

A single company controls of an entire market or specific resource/good

  1. Economic success would come to those that worked hard and were competent

c)

  1. Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

d)

  1. Was created to keep grazing animals in or out of an area. This led to the end of cattle drives and open grazing.

7.

  1. Who are the Cowboys and how is their way of life related to the railroad?

a)

  1. African Americans who fled the violence in the south after Reconstruction for a better life.

b)

  1. People who took care of and drove cattle to be shipped and processed. Once railroads expanded, cowboys were not needed as much.

c)

Women in the west had the right to vote, women in the east did not, women in the west were encouraging women in the east to fight for suffrage

d)

  1. Free people of color in New Orleans often had a mixed racial heritage and enjoyed more freedom in their businesses and social interactions

  2. 14th

8.

  1. African Americans who fled the violence in the south after Reconstruction for a better life.

a)

Middle Class

b)

Cowboys

c)

Exodusters

d)

Nobles

9.

  1. What was the Dawe’s Act of 1877 and what was its purpose? 

a)

  1. Get rid of Native government, change their culture to be more “Americanized”

b)

  1. To restrict the movements of African Americans (Freedmen). 

c)

  1. “Accommodation” or compromise was the idea that African Americans should seek to be self sufficient and should not fight against white supremacy but should instead earn the respect of their white neighbors.

d)

  1. A system that allows companies to trade freely, set their own prices, determine workers’ wages, determine workers’ working conditions. Industrial businesses during the Gilded Age made enormous profits and contributed to the 2nd Industrial Revolution

10.

  1. What is represented by the picture?

a)

A system that allows companies to trade freely, set their own prices, determine workers’ wages, determine workers’ working conditions. Industrial businesses during the Gilded Age made enormous profits and contributed to the 2nd Industrial Revolution

b)

  1. Free people of color in New Orleans often had a mixed racial heritage and enjoyed more freedom in their businesses and social interactions

c)

Women in the west had the right to vote, women in the east did not, women in the west were encouraging women in the east to fight for suffrage

d)

  1. There was no proof that Plessy was not provided with accommodations equal to those of the white passengers on board the train, therefore segregation was allowable

11.

SUFFRAGE

a)

Right to vote

b)

  1. Type of government oversight that combines the principles of limited government and the free market with some of the ideas of Social Darwinism

c)

Steel

d)

Oil

12.

  1. Which of the Reconstruction Amendments did Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws most commonly violate? 

a)

Free people of color in New Orleans

b)

  1. Belief that African Americans would help end racial discrimination by advancement through education, work, and community activism

c)

  1. 14th Amendment, which extended US citizenship to the formerly enslaved & granted = protection under the law

d)

A single company controls of an entire market or specific resource/good

  1. Economic success would come to those that worked hard and were competent

13.

  1. What was the main purpose of BOTH Black Codes and  Jim Crow Laws?

a)

  1. Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

b)

  1. To restrict the movements of African Americans (Freedmen). 

c)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Western European countries that spoke English, New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern European countries that did not speak English

d)

  1. Tenements - overcrowded apartments often occupied by multiple families, they were dirty, not maintained, no running water

14.

  1. How was life in New Orleans different for African Americans than it was in the rest of the south?

a)

  1. There was no proof that Plessy was not provided with accommodations equal to those of the white passengers on board the train, therefore segregation was allowable

b)

  1. Free people of color in New Orleans often had a mixed racial heritage and enjoyed more freedom in their businesses and social interactions

c)

  1. To restrict the movements of African Americans (Freedmen). 

d)

Type of government oversight that combines the principles of limited government and the free market with some of the ideas of Social Darwinism

15.

  1. Which Reconstruction Amendment did the Supreme Court use to justify the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

13th

b)

1st

c)

50th

d)

  1. 14th

16.

  1. What was the main argument within the Plessy v. Ferguson case that was used to establish the “separate but equal” doctrine?

a)

  1. There was no proof that Plessy was not provided with accommodations equal to those of the white passengers on board the train, therefore segregation was allowable

b)

  1. Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

c)

  1. Cross of Gold speech where he spoke strongly on supporting a silver/gold standard instead of just a gold standard

d)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Western European countries that spoke English, New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern European countries that did not speak English

17.


  1.  What is “racial uplift?”

a)

Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

b)

Monopolies are not only super rich, but they are in control of the lawmaking process and therefore can make sure that no laws are passed that will hurt them and that laws will be passed to make them richer. 

c)

  1. Belief that African Americans would help end racial discrimination by advancement through education, work, and community activism

d)

  • Railroad regulation

18.

  1. According to Booker T. Washington, what was the best policy when dealing with White Supremacy? What did this involve?

a)

  1. “Accommodation” or compromise was the idea that African Americans should seek to be self sufficient and should not fight against white supremacy but should instead earn the respect of their white neighbors.

b)

  1. Mass production enabled companies to use less skilled workers, which decreased production time and cost and lowered prices

c)

  1. Get rid of Native government, change their culture to be more “Americanized”

d)

  1. African Americans who fled the violence in the south after Reconstruction for a better life.

19.

First interracially written constitution in Louisiana

a)

1868

b)

1879

c)

1898

20.

Requires that people either pass the literacy test or own land to register to vote (taxes must be paid up on land)

a)

1868

b)

1879

c)

1898

d)

All of the above

21.

Eliminated property requirements to hold public office and serve on juries

a)

1868

b)

1879

c)

1898

22.

Includes provision for public schools for all students between 6-18 y/o,  but does not mention race or discrimination

a)

1898

b)

1879

c)

1868

23.

Included provisions for integrated public schools and public accommodations

a)

1868

b)

1879

c)

1898

d)

None of the above

24.

Grandfather clause enacted to prevent African Americans from voting

a)

1898

b)

1879

c)

1868

25.

Segregation is no longer banned in public places, but not yet a law 

a)

1868

b)

1879

c)

1898

26.

Laissez-faire

a)

  1. Horizontal - Taking over another company that operates at the same level of the value chain. Both companies offer similar (if not the same) goods and services, and deal with a similar customer base.

b)

Type of government oversight that combines the principles of limited government and the free market with some of the ideas of Social Darwinism

c)

Vertical - When a company takes over another company that is a producer, vendor, supplier, or distributor for them

d)

  1. A system that allows companies to trade freely, set their own prices, determine workers’ wages, determine workers’ working conditions. Industrial businesses during the Gilded Age made enormous profits and contributed to the 2nd Industrial Revolution

27.

Monopoly

a)

  1. Type of government oversight that combines the principles of limited government and the free market with some of the ideas of Social Darwinism

b)

  1. A law passed in 1892 that banned Chinese Immigration and made hiring Chinese immigrants illegal

c)

  1. Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

d)

A single company controls of an entire market or specific resource/good

28.

  1. Idea of Social Darwinism - Economic success would come to those that worked hard and were competent

a)

False

b)

True

29.

Horizontal Integration - When a company takes over another company that is a producer, vendor, supplier, or distributor for them

a)

True

b)

False

30.

Vertical Integration - When a company takes over another company that is a producer, vendor, supplier, or distributor for them

a)

False

b)

True

31.

Horizontal Integration - Taking over another company that operates at the same level of the value chain. Both companies offer similar (if not the same) goods and services, and deal with a similar customer base.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

List each of the “Robber Barons” and the industry that they are associated with.

a)

  1. Vanderbilt - Steel

Carnegie - Steel

Rockefeller - Oil

JP Morgan - Railroads then bought Carnegie’s company

b)

  1. Vanderbilt - Railroads

Carnegie - Oil

Rockefeller - Steel

JP Morgan - Banking, then bought Carnegie’s company

c)

  1. Vanderbilt - Railroads

Carnegie - Steel

Rockefeller - Oil

JP Morgan - Banking, then bought Carnegie’s company

d)

Carnegie - Steel

Rockefeller - Oil

JP Morgan - Banking, then bought Carnegie’s company

33.

  1. What are the names of the main islands that immigrants passed through to get into the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

a)

Iris Island - Immigrants from Irish countries

Vanderbelt Island - Immigrants from Eastern Europe.

b)

Ellan Island - immigrants from Asia

Angle Island - immigrants from Europe

c)

Stevie Island - immigrants from Iraq

Elizabeth Island - immigrants from London

d)

  1. Ellis Island - immigrants from Europe

Angel Island - immigrants from Asia

34.

  1. A law passed in 1892 that banned Chinese Immigration and made hiring Chinese immigrants illegal

a)

  1. Chinese Exclusion Act.

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Morrill Land Grant Act

d)

14th Amendment

35.

  1. How did mass production influence the use of skilled labor? 

a)

  1. Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

b)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Western European countries that spoke English, New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern European countries that did not speak English

c)

  1. Enabled companies to use less skilled workers, which decreased production time and cost and lowered prices

d)

Population concerns and/or widespread famine spread in the south

36.

  1. What is the Subtreasury Plan?

a)

  1. A law passed in 1892 that banned Chinese Immigration and made hiring Chinese immigrants illegal

b)

  • Expansion of big biz and infrastructure (public roads, bridges, etc.)

c)

  • Opposed civil rights; imposed Jim Crow laws in South

d)

  1. Called for the government to set up warehouses, farmers could store their crops when prices were low, get low interest loans to buy seed, than sell when prices rose and pay off loans

37.

  1. What event led to the nomination of William Jennings Bryan as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the Election of 1896?

a)

  • Land reform

  • Government backed loans

  • Free silver 

b)

  1. Cross of Gold speech where he spoke strongly on supporting a silver/gold standard instead of just a gold standard

c)

  1. There was no proof that Plessy was not provided with accommodations equal to those of the white passengers on board the train, therefore segregation was allowable

d)

  1. To restrict the movements of African Americans (Freedmen). 

38.

What types of dwelling did most WORKING CLASS people live in?

a)

Mansions - clean, proper, and exquisit. Usually has 1 or 2 worker cleaning and watching over kids while wives go to the local book club

b)

  1. Tenements - overcrowded apartments often occupied by multiple families, they were dirty, not maintained, no running water

c)

Houses - Owned by themselves. Spacious and nice, but does not include any other servants

d)

Shacks- Located in woods, usually in swampy locations and includes many good sights and hunting spots.

39.

Compare and contrast the “old immigrants” and the “new immigrants” during the late 1800s & early 1900s.

a)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Eastern European countries that spoke English, New immigrants came from Southern and Western European countries that did not speak English

b)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Western European countries that spoke English, New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern European countries that did not speak English

c)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Western European countries that spoke Italian, New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern European countries that did speak English

d)

  1. Old immigrants came from Northern and Western European countries that spoke English, New immigrants came from Southern and Eastern European countries that did speak English

40.

Opportunities for work and/or farmland

a)

Push

b)

Pull

41.

Population concerns and/or widespread famine

a)

Push

b)

Pull

42.

Political pressures from warfare and required military service

a)

Pull

b)

Push

43.

Higher standard of living

a)

Pull

b)

Push

44.

Farm poverty and worker uncertainty

a)

Push

b)

Pull

45.

Democratic political system

a)

Pull

b)

Push

46.

  1. Describe the platform of the Republican party.

a)

  • -Personal liberty > moral reform

  • -Opposed tariffs 

  • -Opposed civil rights; imposed Jim Crow laws in South

b)

  • -Railroad regulation

  • -Land reform

  • -Government backed loans

  • -Free silver 

c)

  • -Expansion of big biz and infrastructure (public roads, bridges, etc.)

  • -Support tariffs 

  • -Gold standard “hard money”

47.

Describe the platform of the Democratic Party.

a)

  • -Expansion of big biz and infrastructure (public roads, bridges, etc.)

  • -Support tariffs 

  • -Gold standard “hard money”

b)

  • -Personal liberty > moral reform

  • -Opposed tariffs 

  • -Opposed civil rights; imposed Jim Crow laws in South

c)

  • Railroad regulation

  • Land reform

  • Government backed loans

  • Free silver 

48.

Describe the platform of the People's Party.

a)

  • -Personal liberty > moral reform

  • -Opposed tariffs 

  • -Opposed civil rights; imposed Jim Crow laws in South

b)

  • -Expansion of big biz and infrastructure (public roads, bridges, etc.)

  • -Support tariffs 

  • -Gold standard “hard money”-

c)

  • -Railroad regulation

  • -Land reform

  • -Government backed loans

  • -Free silver 

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