SDC U.S. History Exam Review UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SDC U.S. History
SDC U.S. History Exam Review UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
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Post Civil War/Reconstruction Era - CORRECT ANSWER- 1860's to 1870's
KKK - CORRECT ANSWER- formed around time of Reconstruction. Purpose was to
cause fear and terror and to control politics, targeted African Amer...
SDC U.S. History Exam Review UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Post Civil War/Reconstruction Era - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1860's to 1870's
KKK - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- formed around time of Reconstruction. Purpose was to
cause fear and terror and to control politics, targeted African Americans and eventually
immigrants
Redeemers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- they were politicians that aimed to repair or
"redeem" the South in the eyes of Congress, believed in White supremacy and Lost Cause
Myth
Compromise to 1877 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the election was very close, Tildon
conceded the presidency to Hayes in exchange to remove troops and control over South
Lost Cause Myth - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ideology that the South's actions in the Civil
War and just and virtuous. This idea enforces that the Southerners were trying to protect the
antebellum South and State's rights and opposing Northern aggression. (bunch of bologna)
Sharecropping - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a landowner would dedicate a spot of land and
crop to a family and provide them a place to live as well as seeds and tools for a "share" of
the crop.
14th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- granted equal rights, legal rights, and
citizenship to African Americans and all other races
15th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- granted the right to vote to African Americans
and all other races
,American Industry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1880's to 1890's
New South Mill Economy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- railroad expansion increased the
production of tobacco, wheat, but most importantly; cotton. This increase in cotton caused
textile mills to move toward the south including others like tobacco processing and furniture
factories.
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- kept African American separate from white
people in public places. These cruel laws continued into the 1950s' and caused many issues
culturally, economically and socially.
Lynching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a form of terrorism in which African Americans were
murdered by hanging to "maintain" racial supremacy
Plessy v. Ferguson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Plessy was ⅛ African American and refused
to sit in the black train car. The ruling established the "separate but equal" idea.
Jim Crow Advocates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- supporters of the laws and white
supremacists
The West - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1880's
Exodusters - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Pape Singleton lead African Americans who
migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
Cattle Ranchers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- drove cattle up and down America to sell them
and where mostly free roaming
Railroads - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- as a result of the western expansion, many railroads
were built like the continental railroad, cattle were transported in refrigerated cars. Expanded
the west and allowed trade to boom
Homestead Act - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- encourage expansion and promised people 160
acres of lands
, Peace Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ulysses S Grant remove corrupt Indian agents,
who supervise reservations, and replace them with Christian missionaries.
Reservation Movement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- We forced Natives out of there land to
Reservations, the trail of tears was a famous path taken by 60,000 Natives.
U.S. Army vs. Native Americans - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the U.S. Army would often
attack Natives even when unprovoked and would even go out and burn whole villages.
Although many were not peaceful some peaceful tribes suffered from this brutish behavior.
Destruction of the Native People - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- our technological superiority
gave us a major advantage in fighting the natives and this made these battles more like
massacres
Natives: Allies or Enemies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- some natives were allies while
others were not near was friendly but we eventually mistreated both types
Extermination of Buffalo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- White People and Natives killed
millions of buffalo for their hinds and this caused their near extinction.
2 Major Battles out West - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Battle of the Little BigHorn, Apache
Wars
Environmental Impacts of Westward Expansion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the
extermination of species like buffalo hurt the environment and mining also played a big role
in this as well. Also the destruction of plain grasses will eventually lead to the Dust Bowl in
1930.
American Masculinity in the West - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cowboys were the peak of
masculinity, they were seen as rough-and-tough gunslingers, when in reality they lived pretty
solitary lives
American Femininity in the West - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- girls in the west were
idealized as pretty prostitutes in salon who wore revealing dresses. This was true for some
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