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FSU AMH 2020 University Of Central Florida Question and answers rated A+ FSU AMH 2020 - Exam 1 Gilded Age, South and West: - correct answer Reconstruction () - correct answer - Covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War and focuses on ...

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FSU AMH 2020 - Exam 1
Gilded Age, South and West: - correct answer ✔


Reconstruction
(1865-1876) - correct answer ✔- Covers the complete history of the entire
country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War and focuses on the
transformation of the Southern United States as directed by Congress, with
the reconstruction of state and society
- African Americans have the right to vote
- Ushers in a period where Republicans have majority control over the
government
- Federal troops had to go to polling places to ensure people were letting
African Americans vote


Redemption
(1870s) - correct answer ✔White Democratic Southerners saw themselves
as redeeming the South by regaining power


Redeemers - correct answer ✔- The southern wing of the Bourbon
Democrats, the ultra-conservative, far right, pro-business faction in the
Democratic Party, who pursued a policy of Redemption, seeking to oust the
Radical Republican, far left coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and
"scalawags"
- They generally were led by the rich landowners, businessmen and
professionals, and dominated Southern politics in most areas from the 1870s
to 1910


The New South - correct answer ✔- The North had a much better industrial
pace; better transportation; so they wanted change

,- Textiles - Small factories that produce clothing; gives women and children an
opportunity to work; however no child labor laws, small wages, dangerous
work
- Tobacco - Grew rapidly in VA and SC


Sharecropping - correct answer ✔A system of agriculture in which a
landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops
produced on their portion of land


Exodusters - correct answer ✔African Americans who left the South after
Reconstruction, hoping to find a better life in the west


Homesteaders - correct answer ✔Settlers who bought cheap land in the
West from the Federal Government under the terms of the Homestead Act


Railroad Monopolies - correct answer ✔- Railroads transported people and
goods faster; made several industries more profitable; downsides include the
fact that the railroad lines were difficult to build (building over mountains); if a
railroad went bankrupt, the town it was in most likely went bankrupt
- Many of the railroad companies created a monopoly, setting low prices that
other companies couldn't match, and then increase the prices and make a
huge profit


Dawes Act - correct answer ✔Authorized the President of the United States
to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual
Indians


Gilded Age, North and National Politics: - correct answer ✔

, Monopolies - correct answer ✔The exclusive possession or control of the
supply or trade in a commodity or service


Trusts - correct answer ✔- An arrangement that gives one company the
power to manage another company without owning them outright
- Created to avoid the appearance of having a monopoly


Standard Oil Company - correct answer ✔- Owned by John D. Rockefeller
- Controlled over 90% of the US oil industry


Carnegie Steel Company - correct answer ✔- Owned by Andrew Carnegie
- The largest industrial company in the world during the late 1800s


New Immigration - correct answer ✔New vs. Old
- Old: Came from Northern or Western Europe; Came to the US as early as
the 1600s
- New: Eastern and Southern Europe; 1880s
- More than 5 million per year were showing up in southern Europe per year
- Came for jobs; Worked 10-12 hours a day with little pay and dangerous
working conditions
- Came for ship docks


Tenements - correct answer ✔Apartment buildings from hell; Where the new
immigrants often lived


Political Machines - correct answer ✔- Organizations run by a few political
men, known as bosses; Controlled every aspect of city politics
- Often the men who controlled these political machines were corrupt

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