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AMH 2020 Final Exam questions with correct answers
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AMH 2020 Final Exam questions with correct answers
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AMH 2020 Final ExamReconstruction - correct answer ✔✔The period immediately following the Civil War of rebuilding the
United States
13th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔End of Slavery
14th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Civil Rights for African Americans
15th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Voting for African American males
Black codes - correct answer ✔✔Laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.
Aimed to restrict the rights of African Americans.
Dawes Act - correct answer ✔✔Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United
States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
Homestead Act - correct answer ✔✔Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of
public land. The land allotments were also meant to encourage Native Americans to farm.
Grange - correct answer ✔✔Founded by Oliver H. Kelly in 1867, the Grange sought to relieve the
drabness of farm life by providing a social, educational, and cultural outlet for its members.
Railroads - correct answer ✔✔- The machine that transformed the American Economy
- The idea of railroads came from England
- Competition with Canal Boats because the fare was cheaper
- Cornelius Vanderbilt "The Commodore". Dominated the railroad industry.
Inventors - correct answer ✔✔- Mechanical Reaper: Cyrus McCormick
, - Barbed Wire: Joseph Glidden
- Steam Engine: James Watt
- Cotton Gin: Eli Whitney
- Steamboat: Robert Fulton
Captains of Industry - correct answer ✔✔- Rockefeller-oil
- Vanderbilt-railroads
- Carnegie-steel
Booker T. Washington - correct answer ✔✔- Gradual acquisition of rights for blacks
- Believed in a plan of "self-help"
W.E.B Du Bois - correct answer ✔✔- Immediate rights for blacks
- Education was the key to a successful life
- Niagara Movement - a black civil rights organization founded in 1905
Jane Addams - correct answer ✔✔Hull house (Chicago): settlement house in the US for recently arrived
European immigrants.
Populist Party - correct answer ✔✔This political party was organized in 1892 by farm, labor, and reform
leaders, mainly from the Farmers Alliance. After 1896, it became identified as a one-issue party focused
on free silver and gradually died away
Alliance Movement - correct answer ✔✔Aimed to organize the american farmer, and have them take a
role in politics.
Expansionism - correct answer ✔✔- The policy of territorial or economic expansion
- Manifest Destiny- The belief that God supported American expansionism, and that due to population
growth new territory must be acquired.
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