American History Semester 1 Review

What is NOT a reason immigrants came to America?

What was Winfield Scott’s strategy of blockading Southern ports and taking control of the Mississippi River known as?

What is NOT something that Southern states did once Reconstruction ended?

a neighborhood-based organization that provides services designed to assist the urban poor (EX. Hull House)

Why was the Ku Klux Klan created during Reconstruction?

Where did the first and second class passengers go when they reached America?

What did the Homestead Act do?

Why was the Sherman Antitrust Act hard to enforce?

What country is NOT one of top countries where immigrants came from from 1800-1930?

The rapid growth of US cities during the late 1800s and early 1900s was mostly due to what?

What did Ford implement that made cars more affordable?

300 March by Navajo to a reservation - Led to the deaths of hundreds of Navajo

What happened to the population of the US between 1860 and 1910?

Dark and crowded multi-family apartments

Banned entry to Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials in 1882.

What does Laissez-faire mean?

What battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?

How did immigrants from Europe and Asia get to the United States during this time period?

Religious reformers strove to improve conditions in the cities according to the biblical ideals of charity and justice.

Process in which immigrant school children were taught the English language as well as culture t0 assimilate them

What was the Women's Suffrage Movement about?

How many European immigrants passed through Ellis Island from 1892-1924?

Where did those entering the WEST coast (primarily those from China) come through?

Began with workers who made train cars Spread to workers who worked on trains pulling sleeping cars - Fed Troops Stopped

Neighborhoods that duplicated many of the comforts of immigrants' homelands, including language & religion

What did political machines NOT do to get their candidates elected to public office?

What book pushed Roosevelt to urge Congress to enact meat inspection laws?

What was NOT one of the factors that led to a decline in the quality of working conditions?

What was life NOT like for those traveling in steerage class?

How many Chinese immigrants came to America between 1910 and 1940?

What was included in Johnson's plan for reconstruction?

Where did the Steerage passengers go when they reached America?

His reconstruction plan: Confederates (except military & political leaders) could regain citizenship by taking an oath

What is something that Progressives did NOT try to accomplish?

A small island in New York Harbor. It served as a processing center for most immigrants arriving on the East Coast

What battle was the Confederate Army cut off from supplies & forced to surrender during?

Group that supported free coinage of silver, work reforms, & immigration restrictions

How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?

What were cities like in urban areas during this time period?

Why were nativists in favor of restricting immigration?

What was the Ghost Dance?

Who's election was one of the triggers to the beginning of the Civil War?

A railroad system that crossed the continental US - Construction on it began in 1863

What group had a preference for native-born people and the desire to limit immigration?

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America and came up with the strategy of Cotton Diplomacy?

What was NOT included in the inspections at Ellis Island?

What did the Radical Republicans want to do?

What was not one of the aspects of city life during the time of immigration?

Who were journalists who wrote about child labor, racial, discrimination, slum housing, and corruption in business?