William mckinley - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Land grants that allowed for the building of the transcontinental railroads were Pacific Railway Act and Homestead Act Sells Land Pacific Railway Act The government gives you land as long as you utilize it Homestead Act How did the railroad affect the country? Helped create a national market Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by dividing farming land and giving it to individual families Dawes Severality Act What are the factors ...

President William McKinley, His presidency coincided with the rise of the United States as an emerging global power. The Spanish-American War (1898) • A brief military conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898 over Cuban independence. • "A splendid little war" •Stunning the US success with few casualties Spanish American War • Spain recognized the independence • US became a status quo power, and a power among the first rank • Marked the rise of the US as a sup...

What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 provide for? Correct Answer-Temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy A concentrated effort on the part of the major Protestant denominations to concert the Sioux to Christianity Correct Answer-The Second Sioux (), in which Custer was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn, was NOT caused by? Reformers of the Progressive Era proposed changes in city government and politics at the turn of the century, but what was not one? Corre...

What Tennessee Interstate Highway connects the cities of Johnson City and Asheville, North Carolina? correct answers Interstate 26 or I-26 Dolly Parton was born and raised in what Tennessee county? correct answers Sevier Who was the founder of the National Baptist Publishing Board? correct answers Richard H. Boyd Who was the first African American to practice law in Knoxville? correct answers William Frances Yardley What Tennessean was known as the "Great Conciliator?" (Conciliator...

Constitution - A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society 25th President - William McKinley 26th President - Theodore Roosevelt 27th President - William Howard Taft 28th President - Woodrow Wilson Plessy vs. Ferguson - A case were a black man refused to sit in the section got black people on a train, this trial lead to the separate but equal act Guilded Age - Golden on the outside, but corruption and political prob...

Journalism B - FE Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Solved 100% Which man competed against William Randolph Hearst in the 1890s to see who could sell the most newspapers? - answerJoseph Pulitzer Yellow journalism refers to what? - answerThe use of sensationalistic news The New York journal and New York World relied on ___ to sell newspapers. - answerSensationalistic headlines Historians consider which war the first "press-driven" war? - answerSpanish-American War How di...

Journalism B - FE Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Solved 100% Which man competed against William Randolph Hearst in the 1890s to see who could sell the most newspapers? - answerJoseph Pulitzer Yellow journalism refers to what? - answerThe use of sensationalistic news The New York journal and New York World relied on ___ to sell newspapers. - answerSensationalistic headlines Historians consider which war the first "press-driven" war? - answerSpanish-American War How di...

Journalism B - FE Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Solved 100% Which man competed against William Randolph Hearst in the 1890s to see who could sell the most newspapers? - answerJoseph Pulitzer Yellow journalism refers to what? - answerThe use of sensationalistic news The New York journal and New York World relied on ___ to sell newspapers. - answerSensationalistic headlines Historians consider which war the first "press-driven" war? - answerSpanish-American War How di...

SDC History Challenge Exam | updated 2024 Abraham Lincoln () - National Union/Republican (Liberal back then) -Civil War -Emancipation Proclamation (Freedom Manifesto) abolished slavery in North -13th Amendment -Battle of Gettysburg -Domestic Affairs (borders) -Homestead Act of 1862 (encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid small filing fee and required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ow...

1.(06.02 MC) Question refers to the excerpt below. "The long trial has proved that the object for which Spain has waged the war cannot be attained. The fire of insurrection may flame or may smolder with varying seasons, but it has not been, and it is plain that it cannot be, extinguished by present methods. The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured is the enforced pacification of Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behal...