U.S. History Finals: Dr. Houser's class

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in

Canada became an important background in the War of 1812 because

The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because

In the first half of the nineteenth century, tax supported schools were

European immigration to the South was discouraged most profoundly by

The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as

Which was not among the major new research universities founded in the post-Civil War era?

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by

The 2 immigrant ethnic groups who were most harshly treated in the mid to late 19th century

The last of the Reconstruction era amendments to pass was the

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

Harriet Tubman gained fame

In their treatment of Native Americans, white Americans did all, EXCEPT

John D. Rockefeller was identified with

Most Italian immigrants to the U.S. between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

After Little Bighorn, the government signed another treaty, guaranteeing the Sioux their lands

Which of the following was NOT among the technologies invented or improved by Thomas A. Edison?

Texas gained its independence with

The greatest, LONG TERM achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in

The image of the "Gibson Girl" represented a(n)

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War

Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often

The major factor drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was the

The early Populist campaign to create a coalition of poor white and black farmers resulted in

Andrew Carnegie was identified with

The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes involved

The overwhelming event for Ireland in the 1840s was

Native-born Protestant Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the U.S. would

The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

One of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of workers was

Slavery was legally abolished in the U.S. by the

Populists included industrial workers as their support (with farmers) causing violent strikes

Of the people going to California during the gold rush

The Underground Railroad consisted of

The New Immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1880

The railroads & virtual extermination of the buffalo caused the Plains Indians to give up land

The Morrill Act of 1862

The view that God ordained the growth of America stretching across North America was called

Which of the NOT a true statement about the Lousiana Purchase

Border slave states that remained loyal to the Union included

In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until

Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

Most women workers of the 1890s worked

By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage argued that the vote would improve their role as mothers

The greatest factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of post-Civil War years was

The cult of domesticity

A great deal of the cotton produced in the South in the 1800s was

Writer and traveler, frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville was most struck by

The "Gospel of Wealth" endorsed by Andrew Carnegie held that the wealthy should

Henry Clay embraced the American System which would create all, EXCEPT

Booker T. Washington

Tecumseh argued that Indians should

Settlement houses, like Hull House, engaged in all, EXCEPT

Andrew Jackson wanted to remove the Native Americans from the eastern states because

The central political platform of the Know-Nothing party in the 1856 election was/were

J.P. Morgan was identified with

Federalists abstained from voting in the HOReps b/c of Aaron Burr, so

In the decades after the Civili War, college education for women became less common

The 14th amendment guaranteed

Who aided Lewis and Clarke in their expedition through the Lousiana Territory?

For free blacks living in the North

The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated

The outcome of the War of 1812 was a(n)

An alarming part of the Compromise of 1850 to the North was the compromise with the South about

Slaves fought the system of slavery by

Lewis and Clark demonstrated the viability of