HIST 173 Final Quiz with Questions and Answers
Wade Davis Bill ANSWER Measure passed by the US congress to reconstruction policy
Freedmen's Bureau ANSWER an agency of the War. Dep. set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves
Black Codes ANSWER laws in the South that were designed to restrict the...
HIST 173 Final Quiz with Questions and
Answers
Wade Davis Bill ANSWER Measure passed by the US congress to reconstruction policy
Freedmen's Bureau ANSWER an agency of the War. Dep. set up in 1865 to assist freed
slaves
Black Codes ANSWER laws in the South that were designed to restrict the laws of freed
slaves
13th Amendment ANSWER outlaws slavery
Civil Rights Act 1875 ANSWER Prohibited discrimination against blacks in public place,
such as inns, amusement parks, and on public transportation. Declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court.
Treatment of Fort Laramie ANSWER In 1851, the US attempted to establish definite
boundaries for each of the major Indian tribes on the Central plains
Chief Joseph ANSWER leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops
(1840-1904)
Dawes Allotment Act ANSWER A fed law intended to turn Native Am. into farmers and
landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming
or 320 for grazing
, Ghost Dance ANSWER Spiritual revival in 1890 by Indians that would lead to the massacre
at Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee, South Dakota ANSWER a creek of Southwest South Dakota, some 200
Native Americans were massacred here by US troops on dec 29 1890
Agribusiness ANSWER the businesses collectively associated with the production,
processing, and distribution of agricultural products
Homestead Act ANSWER an act passed in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre treats
of public land for cultivation
Transcontinental railroad ANSWER extending across a continent, Railroad connecting the
west and east coasts of the continental US
Comstock Lode ANSWER a rich vein of gold and silver discovered in 1859 at Virginia City
in Western Nevada
Chinese Exclusion Act ANSWER of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese
labores into the US
Gilded Age ANSWER Late 1800s to Early 1900s - time of large increase in wealth caused by
industrialization
Andrew Carnegie ANSWER A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who
founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the
American steel industry.
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