HIUS 222 Midterm
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Fourteenth Amendment - answer A constitutional amendment giving full
rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States,
except for American Indians.
Congressional Reconstruction - answer 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 - answer A secret society created by white southerners in
1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from
obtaining their civil rights.
Redeemers - answer 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 - answer 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.
League of Nations - answer an international organization formed in 1920
to promote cooperation and peace among nations
, Espionage Act - answer 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 - answer The largest of several organizations
that formed in the post-Reconstruction South to advance the interests of
beleaguered small farmers
Settlement Houses - answer Community centers located in the slums and
near tenements that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants
Plessy vs Ferguson - answer (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 - answer Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests,
grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights
Atlanta Compromise - answer 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.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -
answer
Vertical Integration - answer An approach typical of traditional mass
production in which a company controls all phases of a highly complex
production process.
Horizontal Integration - answer Type of monopoly where a company buys
out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller
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