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AMH Final Exam Correct Answers2024/2025 Update
While employed by the North Carolina Railroad in 1865, former Confederate soldier Nathaniel Bell
wrote of two children whom he met in Wilmington. What became of the two children? ANS✔✔ They
were reported to have starved to death.
What event/task proved to be the greatest success of the "Freedmen's Bureau"? ANS✔✔ Educating
former slaves
The "Freedmen's Bureau" was established in January 1863 in association with Lincoln's "Emancipation
Proclamation." ANS✔✔ False
At the end of the Civil War, only about 30 percent of white southerners were literate. Within a decade
black literacy had risen to meet that percentage as a result of the Freedman's Bureau. ANS✔✔ False
By the late 1870s, most former slaves had migrated from the poor rural South to find employment in the
industrialized North. ANS✔✔ False
New laws in the South that prevailed after the Civil War to replace the old slave system, which
continued to deny full civil rights to blacks, were known as: ANS✔✔ Black Codes
According to your reading assignment, President Johnson was impeached for violating which
congressional act in 1868? ANS✔✔ the tenure of office act.
Which Amendment guaranteed to men the right to vote regardless of race? ANS✔✔ 15th amendment
,What rumor did General William Tecumseh Sherman's "Field Order No. 15" fuel among recently freed
slaves? ANS✔✔ That the government would provide each black family with 40 acres and a mule.
In which Southern city was Coca-Cola invented? ANS✔✔ Atlanta
Which Southern city would become (at least temporarily) the largest city in the South due to a
disastrous hurricane? ANS✔✔ Houston
Following the massive cultural and economic changes that took place after the Civil War, the South's
largest industry was: ANS✔✔ Lumber
The Southern Farmers Alliance was the first post-Civil War organization in the former Confederacy that
embraced/accepted both Black and White members. ANS✔✔ False
The most common offense used to justify the lynching of Blacks during the Post-Civil War
(Reconstruction) era was: ANS✔✔ Accusations of "sex crimes" against White women
The "Plessy vs. Ferguson" case ruled by the Supreme court involved a case involving: ANS✔✔
Accomodations for Blacks on railroads
The segregation laws that became prevalent in the South during the post-Civil War era were known as:
ANS✔✔ Jim Crow Laws
The first state in the former Confederacy to pass "disfranchisement" laws was: ANS✔✔ Tennessee
Your textbook states that late nineteenth-century America is often called the
____________________________________ ANS✔✔ The Guilded Age
, Thomas Edison's "practical" light bulb was first unveiled in (year) __________________________.
ANS✔✔ 1879
The manufacturing of a product from the raw material to the completion of a finished product (ready to
market) by one, single company is referred to in your textbook as: ANS✔✔ Vertical Integration
With regard to industry, a "Trust" is: ANS✔✔ The concentration of industry in the hands of a few
corporations
Following the Civil War, due to the massive influx of cheap labor through immigration and the labor
demands brought by industrialization, fewer women entered colleges and universities than during the
pre-Civil War era. ANS✔✔ False
The labor organization founded in 1886 that quickly became the "major body for skilled workers..." was
the ______________________________. ANS✔✔ AFL - American Federation of Labor
From the 1830s to 1860, nativist sentiment was mostly directed against which recent immigrants?
ANS✔✔ Irish Catholics
The movement of Black Americans from the South to the great Northeastern and Midwest cities
between 1880 and 1900 was known as the: ANS✔✔ Great Migration
By the early 1900s, what had become the nation's leading middle-class spectator sport? ANS✔✔
baseball
Andrew J. Russell made a journey from Ogden to Promontory Summit, Utah to document: ANS✔✔ The
completion of the Trans-continental Railroad
The policy/program of keeping the "great desert" west of Missouri inhabited by Indians collapsed due
to: ANS✔✔ The acquisition of western states by the Federal Government
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