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USVA HISTORY EXAM WITH VERIFIED DETAILED ANSWERS (A+)How did the Supreme Court contribute or restrict to Reconstruction Efforts? - ANSWER
Supreme Court made Reconstruction difficult, rulings took power to enforce
reconstruction laws away from federal government and to the states
What were the Provisions of the Compromise of 1877? - ANSWER Ended reconstruction.
1)gave Hayes the presidency as long as he agreed to remove all remaining federal
troops from the South
2)appoint a democrat to his cabinet
3)fund a transcontinental railroad in the South
4)democrats had to promise to protect the rights of newly freedom in the South
What occupation did many of the recently freed slaves engage in after the Civil War?
What was the single biggest problem with this occupation? - ANSWER The slaves
engaged in sharecropping: farmed land that belonged to somebody else and then paid
that person with a share of their crop
Socialism - ANSWER Political and economic theory of social organization that advocates
that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated
by the community as a whole
Communism - ANSWER Government owns all means and factors of production and
determines all prices and supply
Mixed economy - ANSWER Combination of capitalism and communism
Capitalism - ANSWER Free market and supply and demand completely determine prices
(laissez faire-hands off)
, First large scale industry in USA - ANSWER Railroads
Original 4 captains of industry? - ANSWER Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, J.P.
Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Booker T Washington - ANSWER Advocated for educating African Americans so they
could improve themselves and "prove" their worth to society
WEB Dubois - ANSWER Advocated for fighting for rights and was one of the founders of
the NAACP
Chinese Exclusion Act - ANSWER 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese
laborers
Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWER Supreme Court ruled separate but equal was
constitutional
Brown v. Board of Education - ANSWER Segregation in public schools illegal
Referendum - ANSWER The state lawmaking bodies passed laws and then sent them
onto the people for a final vote
Initiative - ANSWER Citizens can propose ideas for laws and the public could then vote
on those laws
Direct Primary - ANSWER Voters in a state get to vote directly for the person that they
want on their party's presidential ballot
Secret ballot - ANSWER Form of voting in secret
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