AMERICAN HISTORY Homework assignment
Short Answer: Carefully read and then respond to each item below. Answer as precisely as possible. A few words for each response should suffice. Rely upon Powerpoint slides uploaded. (100 possible points)
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Respond to each of the following. There are 100 possible points.
Section One Reconstruction Part 1 PowerPoint slides (3 possible points each)
1. How did Lincoln defeat the Wade Davis bill?
2. How was Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan undermined by Radical Republicans in Congress?
3. What abolished slavery in the U. S.?
4. What was the term for the laws that restricted the economic and social opportunities of the freedmen that were passed by southern state governments which were reestablished under Johnson’s plan for reconstruction.
5. Why were the Tenure of Office Act and the Command of the Army Act passed by Congress?
6. What was the fate of the First Freedman’s Bureau Bill (1866)?
7. What three groups supported Republican governments in the southern states during Reconstruction?
8. Which constitutional amendment repudiated the Confederate war debt?
9. This crop-lien system took root throughout the South where freemen rented the land they worked to the advantage of landowners.
10. What was the major provision of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
Section Two Growth of the West (3 possible points each)
11. The destruction of what, more than anything else, undermined the culture of the Plains Indians, during the 1870s and 1880s?
12. In the late 1880s, what religious movement invoking the ancestors of Native Americans to bring calamity upon the white population swept through the Western Indian nations?
13. Give the title and author of the book that examined the series of broken treaties and broken promises in white relations with Native Americans during the 18th and 19th centuries.
14. Congress intended that this piece of legislation help Native Americans, but it instead undermined tribal leadership and cohesion by dividing tribal land into small plots for distribution among tribal members.
15. What were three impacts of the mining frontier?
16. From where was the origin of the nineteenth-century cattle industry, in terms of animals raised and ranching techniques?
17. Goodnight-Loving, Western, Chisholm, and Sedalia were all what?
18. Which city became the center of the cattle slaughterhouse industry?
19. Who was the foremost Western artist who painted the winter scene below?
20. How did farmers on the Great Plains overcome a scarcity of lumber sources?
21. What railroads built the transcontinental railroad and met in Promontory Point in 1869?
22. In 1889, who were the Sooners?
23. Frederick Jackson Turner argued in his frontier thesis that the frontier had cultivated a uniquely American character that was exemplified by what?
Section Three Gilded Age (Numbers 24-32 3 possible points each; Number 33 4 possible points)
24. From the Reconstruction until 1900, what was the leading industry by size in the United States?
25. Who introduced the Bessemer Process to the United States?
26. In the 1890s, among the upper class, where was the “Grand Tour” taken?
27. Who wrote the article for the North American Review titles “Wealth,” later reprinted in Great Britain under the title “The Gospel of Wealth”?
28. Who was the primary audience for the books written by Horatio Alger and William Makepeace Thayer?
29. Who gave the “Acres of Diamonds” lecture (sermon) over 6,000 times?
30. From where were the “New Sources” (as opposed to traditional sources) for immigration to the U. S. during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s?
31. What did Jacob August Riis spend a lifetime documenting and photographing?
32. What was the title of Mark Twain’s satirical novel about the politics of the 1870s?
33. Black lung is associated with what occupation? White lung is associated with what occupation?
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