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AMH 2020 Exam 1 Review (updated)questions well solved
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AMH 2020 Exam 1 ReviewSharecropping - correct answer ✔✔A system of farming that developed in the South after the Civil War,
when landowners, many of whom had formerly held slaves, lacked the cash to pay wages to farm
laborers, many of whom were former slaves. The system called for dividing the crop into three shares —
one for the landowner, one for the worker, and one for whoever provided seeds, fertilizer, and farm
equipment.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890 - correct answer ✔✔1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and
monopolies in the United States; Used initially by the government to limit the power of labor unions and
break up strikes
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 - correct answer ✔✔(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter
the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. American workers felt threatened by
the job competition.
Apprenticeship System 1886 - correct answer ✔✔By the year of 1886 there was abolition in Cuba and
emancipation in all LA and Caribbean. This scared the British because they feared the economic effect of
lost labor force, need to compensate plantation owners. Therefore the system was created for ex-slaves,
at first it was 12 years of apprenticeship then reduced to 6 years. The ex-slaves worked 40 hours/week
and were paid with room and board. This system prevented mass desertions of plantations. After 6 years
full freedom was granted.
Knights of Labor - correct answer ✔✔1880's- union for unskilled laborers, women, blacks, immigrants;
ended after Haymarket Square riot of 1886
Haymarket Affair - correct answer ✔✔A riot during an anarchist protests at Haymarket Square in Chicago
in May 1886, over violence during the McCormick Harvester Company Strike, the deaths of 11, including
7 policemen, helped hasten the demise of the Knights of Labor, even though they were not responsible.
It grew out of agitation for an 8-hour work day. The Anarchists had scheduled an open meeting following
the death of a striker, as the crowd began to break up violence erupted causing the affair. It caused a
widespread revulsion against labor unions.
Vagrancy laws - correct answer ✔✔Southern state laws, passed as part of Black Codes in the fall and
winter of 1865 and 1866, designed to define (and limit) the rights of blacks. These laws provided that
, blacks not "lawfully employed" could be arrested, fined, imprisoned for a year, or hired out to a man
who would assume responsibility for their future behavior and their debts (thereby putting the
employee in debt to the employer). Arrest under these vagrancy laws could be triggered if a black person
were found wandering about or being idle on a street corner or acting in a "disorderly manner" or being
engaged in "disreputable occupations."
American Federation of Labor - correct answer ✔✔1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better
wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor,
rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.
Black Codes - correct answer ✔✔Laws adopted by the Southern states in the Reconstruction era that
greatly limited the freedom of southern blacks; in several states blacks could not move, own land, or do
anything but farm.
Ku Klux Klan 1866 - correct answer ✔✔A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used
terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
The Law of Segregation - correct answer ✔✔separate but equal
The Compromise of 1877 - correct answer ✔✔It withdrew federal soldiers from their remaining position
in the South, enacted federal legislation that would spur industrialization in the South, appointed
Democrats to patronage positions in the south, and appointed Hayes (Democrat) to the president's
cabinet.
Spanish-American War 1898 - correct answer ✔✔war fought between Spain and the United States that
began after the sinking of the battleship USS Maine; the United States won the war in four months,
gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
14th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔declared that all persons born in the US were citizenship, that all
citizens were entilted to equal rights and their rights wer protected by due process
15th Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Amendment to the United States Constitution stating: "The right
of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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