Duplicate of American Studies I MidTerm Review

Nativist groups supported favoring native-born Americans over immigrants

____formed to oppose Dems and Reps in the 1890s. It included farmers, 8 hr work day, prog. income tax, change to gold $

Which statement describes what life was like for homesteaders?

What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad

All of the following groups opposed abolition EXCEPT

In the election of 1860, Lincoln won the presidency because

Abolition means to

How did Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell help change American society in the late 1800s?

Supporters of Social Darwinism believed that if the government did not get involved in business...

The Radical Republicans believed Lincoln's plan was to lenient on the South; they hoped to

Uncle Tom's Cabin convinced northerners that

Lincoln said, "A HOUSE divided against itself cannot stand". What does HOUSE refer to?

The Compromise of 1850 was very controversial. Which part caused the most tension in the US

Which best describes working conditions in factories in the late 1800s?

The Ku Klux Klan used violence to

Reconstruction was the plan to restore

In the Gilded Age, business leaders often influenced American politics by

A larger company purchasing competing companies in the same industry during the Gilded Age was known as

The 13th Amendment ...

What was the historical significance of Lincoln's and Douglas's 1858 senatorial debates

This Supreme Court affirmed legal segregation and the "separate but equal" doctorine

A result of Lincoln winning the presidency was

The issue of slavery's expansion __________ the country along sectional lines.

John D Rockefeller gained control over much of the oil industry by

The Supreme Court Case, Scott v. Sanford, protected the rights of

In 1863, Gen. Robert E Lee marched to Gettysburg in hopes of

After the first battle of Bull Run,

The Freedmen's Bureau succeeded in

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln declared that the purpose of the Civil War was to

This term refers to news that is sensational or exaggerated

Black codes restricted the

Which was a positive result of Reconstruction?

How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth in the US?

Boss Tweed gained power by

Most immigrants travelling to the US were poor. When they traveled to the US they typically traveled in

Gen William Tecumseh Sheman carried out Grant's policy of "total war" through his

This image represents a major achievement of the US

Victory at the Battle of Antietam gave President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the ____________

In 1910, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began fighting for

A major failure of Reconstruction was that

All of the following factors contributed to the end of Reconstruction EXCEPT

The Homestead Act of 1862 offered American settlers

How did the Kansas-Nebraska act impact slavery in the new territories?

What happened at Appomattox Court House in April 1865?

The North's strategy, The Anaconda Plan, did NOT include

The battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg were

At the beginning of the Civil War, what was an advantage that the North held over the South

"Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people"

Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, and Delaware were slave states that

Which of the following resulted from rapid urbanization?

After the Civil War, one way southern farming changed was that

What happened as a result of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?

The fighting at Ft. Sumter, in April 1861, was important because it

To prevent African Americans from voting, Southern states used