AHM Essay Questions Exam 1
Questions And Answers Latest Update
How did ideas and laws about American citizenship change between 1865
and 1896? - Answers -no real definition of citizenship
-following civil war (1865) state legislators began enacting black codes to
restrict freedmen's right & maintain plantation system
-13th
-14th
-15th amendment
-Civil rights cases limited the rights of black & strengthen Jim Crow laws
-Plessy V. Ferguson (racial segregation especially in education, whites use
this concept to keep African Americans in separate but unequal facilities)
-Asian, Irish, etc were restricted from public life isolated in schools
discriminated in workplace and housing
-Chinese exclusion act (suspend immigration for Chinese penalty,
imprisonment, & deportation gold rush)
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How did western expansion and industrialization shape American politics in
the decades after the Civil War? - Answers INDUSTRIALIZATION:
, Q&A
-Industrialization occurred after Civil war which improved finance system by
forcing the introduction of national currency
-Civil War boosted Telegraph
-Transcontinental Railway via Railway act of 1862 increasing efficiency and
productivity
-US had all resources for industrialization (coal, iron, oil, water (power),
grain (food)
-went from rural to urban
-patens invention
-worked for wages not farming
-railroad changed and improved economy shipping, time zones (watches),
houses, employees (supervisors),
-robber barians
-Rockefeller (oil monopoly, prices)
-living was expensive
-depression hit the poor the hardest
-unions
WESTERN:
-Western frontier possibility to start over
-western settlers were families or immigrants
-West was home to Natives & Chinese , Mexican migrant labor, former
slaves, Mexicans turned American,
-Federal Gov had to passed the law that spurred Homestead, cleared
Natives, & Sponsor Railroads
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