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AMH 2020 Exam 1 Study Guide questions and answers
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AMH 2020 Exam 1 Study GuideMugwumps - correct answer ✔✔A group of renegade Republicans who supported 1884 Democratic
presidential nominee Grover Cleveland instead of their party's nominee, James G. Blaine.
Exodusters - correct answer ✔✔African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to
Kansas.
Assimilationists - correct answer ✔✔Wanted to eradicate tribal life and assimilate Native Americans into
white culture through education, land policy, and federal law.
Redeemers - correct answer ✔✔Southern Democratic politicians who sought to wrest control from
Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction.
Dawes Severalty Act - correct answer ✔✔Bill that promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to
assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, ineffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes
Ghost Dances - correct answer ✔✔Religion practiced by Lakota tribesmen in response to the repeated
incursions by the American settlers. Ghost dancers thought that a Native American messiah would come
and banish the whites, return the buffalo, and give all former Native American land back to the Native
Americans. Worried territorial officials had Sitting Bull arrested (he was later killed under uncertain
circumstances) and killed another 240 Lakota at Wounded Knee Creek.
Scalawags - correct answer ✔✔A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction
following the Civil War.
"Boss" Tweed - correct answer ✔✔William Tweed, head of Tammany Hall, NYC's powerful democratic
political machine in 1868. Between 1868 and 1869 he led the Tweed Reign, a group of corrupt politicians
in defrauding the city. Example: Responsible for the construction of the NY court house; actual
construction cost $3million. Project cost tax payers $13million.
, Presidential Election of 1876 - correct answer ✔✔Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden tied in an
election. Democrats said, "Hayes can be president if you get rid of the troops here in the south," Thus
ending reconstruction
Presidential Election of 1896 - correct answer ✔✔Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William
Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic and complex in
American history. It ushered in a long period of Republican political power.
Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔✔The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the
fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
Imperialism - correct answer ✔✔A policy of extending a country's power and influence through
diplomacy or military force.
Carpet Baggers - correct answer ✔✔a northerner who came to or stayed in the South after the civil war
for political or financial gain
Rough Riders - correct answer ✔✔Volunteer regiment of US Cavalry led by Teddy Roosevelt during the
Spanish American War
Andrew Johnson - correct answer ✔✔17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee,
as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed
Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate
removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.
Open Range - correct answer ✔✔areas of public domain north of Texas where from about 1866 to 1890
more than 5,000,000 cattle were driven to fatten and be shipped off to slaughter
Tenure of Office Act - correct answer ✔✔A federal law (in force from 1867 to 1887) that was intended to
restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the
approval of the Senate.
Battle of Little Bighorn - correct answer ✔✔(1876) Also know as Custer's Last Stand: Custer took 265 of
his men in an attempt to surround a small band of Native Americans on the banks of the Little Bighorn
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