Midterm Review Part 2

What is a scalawag?

What type of mining used things like shovels, pick axes, and pans to find surface gold?

What government policy towards Native Americans is indicated by the image below?

What was it called when politicians hired friends or people they owed for winning elections?

Famous cattle trail that was used for the early long drives of ranching.

What name was given to the state laws during Reconstruction that limited the rights of the freedmen?

What is the 13th Amendment to the Constitution?

Who was the American military leader killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Scandal involving the Union Pacific RR and even congressional leaders.

Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities in exchange for what?

Its purpose was to Americanize Native Americans living on the Great Plains

How did the "New Immigrants" differ from "Old Immigrants?"

Which useful function was served by the political machines of the late 1800's?

Which term best describes a poor tenant farmer who gives a part of his crop as rent?

This was a movement supported by the people

Which amendment gave citizenship and full Constitutional rights to freed slaves?

What was the main idea behind Lincoln's 10% Plan?

Which landmark Supreme Court decision said that segregation did not violate the Constitution?

For a century after the Civil War, Southern voters sided with which political party?

This provided many of the basic needs for plains indians and was part of their way of life

Who did vaqueros help train?

The first professional baseball team

This farmers' organization opposed railroads and banks

What hurt farmers on the plains?

Who was William M. Tweed?

The Ku Klux Klan effective in achieving their goals, because they

From 1860-1890, which experience was shared by most Native Americans in western states?

How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad encourage western settlement?

What was the purpose of the Grange movement?

Settlers were drawn to the Great Plains because of the possibility of finding this

This innovation was a factor in the ending of the open range era

What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act?

What was the main food source of the Native American tribes on the plains?

Why did William Jennings Bryan make his Cross of Gold Speech?

His election in the presidential election of 1896, marked the collapse of populism

Which of the following was part of the Populist Party Platform?

What was a goal of the Dawes Act?

Which federal relief agency worked to provide blacks with food, clothing and an education?

This supports using gold and silver as a basis for U.S. currency

This Democratic candidate was also nominated by the Populists in the 1896 presidential election

What do the poll tax and literacy test have in common?

Which railroad hired Chinese immigrants?

Farmers wanted to see government restriction of what?

What term means "to charge an elected official with misconduct?"

These led to a fall in prices that farmers received for their crops.

Dark crowded apartments in cities during the industrial revolution were referred to as what?

The passage of the Homestead Act & completion of the transcontinental railroad symbolized what?

This organization of farmers and their supporters, educated people about farm issues

This resulted from the US army's fear after witnessing the Ghost Dance ritual

The Radical Republicans hated President Andrew Johnson, because he

This political party supported bimetallism, graduated income tax and a 8-hour work day

Which term describes a Northerner who migrates to the South to take advantage of cheap land?

The Pendleton Act required

What Act in 1862 provided for construction of a transcontinental railroad?

The 15th amendment to the Constitution prohibits state governments from

Was Reconstruction successful in securing the rights of African-Americans?

How did the U.S. Government aid the development of the West?

Pap Singleton led African Americans from the South to the Great Plains, what biblical nickname were they given?

This is a grassland that extends from Texas to Canada in the north

What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?

Railroad companies raised most of the money for construction from what?

This law gave federal land to help finance educational colleges like OSU

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Land set aside for Native American tribes

How did railroad monopolies create economic hardships for farmers?

Why did Nativists oppose immigration?