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HY 121 Kaye Nail midtermWhat is the Myth of the Lost Cause? - correct answer ✔✔That south lost the war because the slaves
we're happy. Southerners lived for fear of God, love of the south, and live to avenge her
Freedman's bureau: - correct answer ✔✔Way for the Fed government to provide help for recently freed
slaves and poor whites
Convict lease system: - correct answer ✔✔time in the south where states would take convicted criminals
and make them work at places like Sloss or bham road works
14th amendment: - correct answer ✔✔gave citizenship for recently freed male slaves
15th Amendment (1870) - correct answer ✔✔States cannot deny any person the right to vote because
of race.
18th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Prohibition of alcohol
19th Amendment (1920) - correct answer ✔✔Gave women the right to vote
Scalawag: - correct answer ✔✔white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
or traitors that take advantage to become empowered and against Federal way of life
Carpetbaggers - correct answer ✔✔A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War;
especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation
in southern states
Plessy vs Ferguson - correct answer ✔✔Separate but equal
Jim Crow Laws - correct answer ✔✔Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
, What was the Homestead Act? - correct answer ✔✔Govt will allow you to have 160 acres for a little
money and if you stay and work the land you get to keep it
What is the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887? - correct answer ✔✔plan by the US govt to end the tribal
system which forced assimilation
Comstock Load: - correct answer ✔✔a silver mining operation in Nevada that was rich in silver
Chism Trail - correct answer ✔✔went from Texas to Kansas
Booker T. Washington - correct answer ✔✔African American progressive who believed slaves should stay
where they are and he gave a speech saying they'll be moderate and make friends with whites
W.E.B DuBoise - correct answer ✔✔founder of the NAACP
Washington gave his compromise speech here - correct answer ✔✔Atlanta
Ida B. Wells - correct answer ✔✔Women activist who lead the movement to ban lynching, was part of
the NAACP
the Wright brothers - correct answer ✔✔Invented the airplane
Ford is known for - correct answer ✔✔creating the first car and assembly line
Myth of the self-made man - correct answer ✔✔myth claiming that self-made men had to start from the
bottom and work their way to the top (although in reality many of them had started from wealth)
Vertical Integration - correct answer ✔✔buying businesses that will supply you (it's a support chain)
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