HIUS 222 Midterm Exam With Complete
Solutions Latest Update 2024-2025
Fourteenth Amendment ANS✔✔ A constitutional amendment giving full
rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States,
except for American Indians.
Congressional Reconstruction ANS✔✔ The return of 11 ex-Confederates to
high offices and the passage of the Black Codes by southern legislatures
angered the Republicans in Congress so that they adopted a plan that was
harsher on southern whites and more protective of freed blacks.
Ku Klux Klan ANS✔✔ A secret society created by white southerners in 1866
that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their
civil rights.
Redeemers ANS✔✔ Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest
opponents of the Republican program in the South. Staged a major
counterrevolution to "redeem" the south by taking back southern state
governments. Their foundation rested on the idea of racism and white
supremacy. Redeemer governments waged and agressive assault on African
Americans.
Solid South ANS✔✔ Term applied to the one-party (Democrat) system of the
South following the Civil War. For 100 years after the Civil War, the South
voted Democrat in every presidential election.
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League of Nations ANS✔✔ an international organization formed in 1920 to
promote cooperation and peace among nations
Espionage Act ANS✔✔ This law, passed after the United States entered
WWI, imposed sentences of up to twenty years on anyone found guilty of
aiding the enemy, obstructing recruitment of soldiers, or encouraging
disloyalty. It allowed the postmaster general to remove from the mail any
materials that incited treason or insurrection.
Southern Farmers' Alliance ANS✔✔ The largest of several organizations that
formed in the post-Reconstruction South to advance the interests of
beleaguered small farmers
Settlement Houses ANS✔✔ Community centers located in the slums and
near tenements that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants
Plessy vs Ferguson ANS✔✔ (1896) The Court ruled that segregation was not
discriminatory (did not violate black civil rights under the Fourteenth
Amendment) provide that blacks received accommodations equal to those
of whites.
Jim Crow Laws ANS✔✔ Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather
clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights
Atlanta Compromise ANS✔✔ Argument put forward by Booker T.
Washington that African-Americans should not focus on civil rights or social
equality but concentrate on economic self-improvement.
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