This is a final review guide For American History 2020 at Florida State University, Professor: Pamela Robbins. I got an A+ on this final and an A overall in the course. This is a flashcard-style document made from old exams and new material, with questions - answers. It contains true/false, what is...
The immigrant center on the west coast is called - Angel Island
The H.H Holmes hotel was called the - Murder Castle
People coming over from Eastern Eurpoe - New Immigrants
Fear of immigrants - xenophobia
on June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the ___ which granted citizenship to all natives - Indian Citizenship Act
Progressive reform that allowed voters to remove an elected official - recall
court case that upheld segregation - Plessy v. Ferguson
two groups that made up the cowboys after the civil war - African Americans and Mexicans
A mode of historical thought with present-day ideas - Presentism
Individuals who went out were an improved the lands for 5 year were called - homesteaders
Main ideology of the North - Modernization
Main Ideology of the South - Lost Cause
Main Ideology of the West - Manifest Destiny
Pop Culture is a historical Document - True
The closing of the frontier, a crucial epoch in American History is over - true! Moved onto imperialism
Buffalo Bill was an accurate portrayal of the west - false
the lasso was the primary of the cowboy - true
Native Americans were citizens with the 14th amendment - false
Railroad development was key to the development of the New South. - true
the overall response to poverty in the north was that the gov did nothing wrong and that the poor were poor because they wanted to be - true
what gave native Americans 160 acres of land - Dawes Severalty Act (1887) Which of the following were problems for workers - All the above (bad hours, bad conditions, and no disability)
what was an excuse for 1/3 of all lynchings - rape
what was an economic backlash against African Americans - sharecropping
which was not a reason for imperialism in the US - WW1
photos of bad conditions of the poor were taken by - Jacob Riis
after the civil war, African Americans in the south experienced all of the following except: - All of the Above (legal segregation, poverty from sharecropping, fear of extra-
legal orgs like KKK)
all of these were obstacles to suffrage except - already able to vote
the catalyst for movement west was the - transcontinental railroad
progressives saw that lack of democracy was a problem so they did everything except - making suffrage illegal
the main policy btwn gov and natives - WAR
Send forth the best ye breed... What do these describe? - White mans burden
the political cartoon of the black devil man represents - black reconstruction
Which of the following groups promoted the statement "god gave us the skill, we should share our wealth: - Gospel of Wealth
More litigation than any other amendment - 14th
progressives relied on what to shape their policies and solve problems - experts
who needed to be a major player in the 20th century - Navy
Amendment that called for the direct election of US Senators - 17th
many 19th-century people saw the Dawes act to civilize natives except - the Indian Removal
All of these were reasons H.H Holmes got away with murder except - Chicago was a backwards city with no police force
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