SDC U.S. History UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SDC U.S. History
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SDC U.S. History
SDC U.S. History UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
KKK - CORRECT ANSWER- formed around time of Reconstruction. Purpose was to
cause fear and terror and to control politics, targeted African Americans and eventually
immigrants
Redeemers - CORRECT ANSWER- they were politicians...
SDC U.S. History UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
KKK - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- formed around time of Reconstruction. Purpose was to
cause fear and terror and to control politics, targeted African Americans and eventually
immigrants
Redeemers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- they were politicians that aimed to repair or
"redeem" the South in the eyes of Congress, believed in White supremacy and Lost Cause
Myth
Compromise to 1877 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the election was very close, Tilden
conceded the presidency to Hayes in exchange the troops were removed from the South
Lost Cause Myth - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ideology that the South's actions in the Civil
War and just and virtuous. This idea enforces that the Southerners were trying to protect the
antebellum South and State's rights and opposing Northern aggression. (bunch of bologna)
14th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- granted equal rights, legal rights, and
citizenship to African Americans and all other races
15th Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- granted the right to vote to African Americans
and all other races
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- kept African American separate from white
people in public places. These cruel laws continued into the 1950s' and caused many issues
culturally, economically and socially.
Lynching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a form of terrorism in which African Americans were
murdered by hanging to "maintain" racial supremacy
,Plessy v. Ferguson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Plessy was ⅛ African American and refused
to sit in the black train car. The ruling established "separate but equal"
Exodusters - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Pap Singleton lead African Americans who migrated
from south to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
Railroads - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- as a result of the western expansion, many railroads.
Expanded the west and allowed trade to boom
Homestead Act - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- gov encourage expansion and promised people
160 acres of land to move West
Environmental Impacts of Westward Expansion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the
extermination of species like buffalo hurt the environment and mining also played a big role
in this as well. Also the destruction of plain grasses will eventually lead to the Dust Bowl in
1930.
Barbed Wire - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- kept free range cattle out of crops in the West
Bessemer Process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- purified steel and made it more durable and
lighter
Impact of the Railroad - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Railroads allowed for goods and people
to travel from place to place faster and cheaper than ever before. This made it easier for
companies to send their goods to consumers and the West expanded more rapidly because of
this
Rockefeller - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- monopoly on oil, he used vertical and horizontal
integration
Carnegie - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- monopoly on steel
Morgan - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- monopolized on banking, had to bail our own
government out at one point
, Vanderbilt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- owned railroad tycoon, made a deal with Rockefeller
and then cut it off
Political Factors of Immigration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- political machines offered new
immigrants housing an jobs in exchange for votes
Economic Factors of Immigration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the economy boomed due to
cheap labor, but the effects of cheap labor became a whole other problem such as
overcrowding in the cities
Nativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- if you were not born here and had family that had
lived here previously, you were lesser than people who did
Gilded Age - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Robber Barons - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Captains of Industry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Whiskey Ring - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion
of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and
distributors.
Credit Mobilier - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and
reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872
in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
Farmer's Alliance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- wanted to coin silver, better loans and own
bank, better interest rates on train cars
People's Party - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- also wanted to coin silver and eventually joined
the democratic party
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