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UGA EXAM REVIEWED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Robert Smalls - CORRECT ANSWER-Enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a ...

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Robert Smalls - CORRECT ANSWER-Enslaved African
American who, during and after the American Civil War,
became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself,
his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by
commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter,
in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the
blockade

Helped convince Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers
into the Union Army

Ten Percent Plan - CORRECT ANSWER-Lincoln's plan that
allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten
percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United
States

Meant to shorten the war

Hoped to weaken the southern cause by making it easy for
disillusioned or lukewarm confederates to switch sides

Hoped to further his emancipation proclamation by insisting that
the new governments abolish slavery

,Radical Republicans - CORRECT ANSWER-After the Civil
War, a group that believed the South should be harshly
punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too
compassionate towards the South

Favored protection for black rights (especially black, male
suffrage)

Wade-Davis Bill - CORRECT ANSWER-Legislation requiring
50% of the voters to take an oath of future loyalty before the
restoration process could begin

Once they took the oath, those who could wear they had never
willingly supported the confederacy could vote in an election for
delegates to a constitutional convention

Passed after congress refused to recognize Lincoln's 10
percent governments

Railroads were the first - CORRECT ANSWER-Modern
corporation

Cornelius Vanderbilt - CORRECT ANSWER-A railroad owner
who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York

He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made
railroads safer and more economical.

John D. Rockefeller - CORRECT ANSWER-Established the
Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest
monopoly known in history

J.P. Morgan - CORRECT ANSWER-Banker who buys out
Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel

,Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed
for WWI and was payed back

Was one of the "Robber barons"

Haymarket Riot (1886) - CORRECT ANSWER-The riot took
place in Chicago between rioters and the police

It ended when someone threw a bomb that killed dozens

The riot was suppressed, and in addition with the damaged
reputation of unions, it also killed the Knights of Labor, who
were seen as anarchists.

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.

Vertical Integration - CORRECT ANSWER-Practice where a
single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the
raw materials to distribution

Example: Phillip Armour's meat company

Horizontal Integration - CORRECT ANSWER-Absorption into a
single firm of several firms involved in the same level of
production and sharing resources at that level

Example: Rockefeller

Dawes Act of 1887 - CORRECT ANSWER-Tried to civilize
Indians and make them more little settlers by giving them land
to farm, instead it harmed their native culture

, General Philip Sheridan - CORRECT ANSWER-ordered by
Grant to wage total war in Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

He burned and destroyed all farmland, animals and food

The Ghost Dance Movement - CORRECT ANSWER-The last
effort of Native Americans to resist US domination and drive
whites from their ancestral lands, came through as a religious
movement.

Little Big Horn - CORRECT ANSWER-General Custer and his
men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne
Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

Geronimo - CORRECT ANSWER-Apache chieftain who raided
the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being
confined to a reservation (1829-1909)

Bureau of Indian Affairs - CORRECT ANSWER-A government
agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward
Native Americans

"kill the Indian, save the man"

New Immigration (1880-1920) - CORRECT ANSWER-By the
1890s, over half of the 3.5 million immigrants who came to our
shores came from southern and eastern Europe, in particular
Italy and the Russian and Austro Hungarian empires

More likely than previous immigrants to be Jewish or catholic

While almost all of them were looking for work, many were also
escaping political or religious persecution

Immigration Restriction League - CORRECT ANSWER-
Founded in 1894 in Boston and lobbied for national legislation
that would limit the numbers of immigrants

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