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HY 121 MidtermCrop-lien system - correct answer ✔✔Merchants extended credit to tenants based on their future crops,
but high interest rates and the uncertainties of farming often led to inescapable debts.
kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
Civil Rights Bill of 1866 - correct answer ✔✔Along with the Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteed the
rights of citizenship to former slaves.
Fourteenth Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words
similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
"Waving the bloody shirt - correct answer ✔✔A tactic of Republicans whereby they identified their
opponents with secession and treason.
a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason.
Fifteenth Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Prohibited states from denying citizens the right to vote
because of race.
sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce - correct answer ✔✔Revels and Bruce were the first two African-
American politicians to serve a full term in the United States Senate. They were both representatives
from Mississippi, and were the only two African-American Senators during Reconstruction.
, The Whiskey Ring Scandal - correct answer ✔✔In the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal,
exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents,
politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. Uncovered in Grant's Administration
Slaughter House Cases - correct answer ✔✔A decision that rejected the claim by butchers that their
right to equality before the law had been violated.
Thomas Edison - correct answer ✔✔A deaf Edison invented the phonograph and by 1900 it was used in
over 150,000 homes. His invention made going to the symphony obsolete. He also invented the light
bulb. This invention changed the way of life for thousands of Americans.
19th century pools, trusts and mergers - correct answer ✔✔ways that manufacturers sought to control
the marketplace.
Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives - correct answer ✔✔wrote How the Other Half Lives, Shocked
Americans with open portrayal of dirt,disease, vice, misery of New York slums, and Deeply influenced
Theodore Roosevelt through the book
Buffalo and the Plains Indians - correct answer ✔✔Plain Indians used Buffalo to survive, traveling and
eating the meat
Dawes Act 1887 - correct answer ✔✔An act that broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to
individual households. Leftover land was sold for money to fund U.S. government efforts to "civilize"
Native Americans. Of 130 million acres held in Native American reservations before the Act, 90 million
were sold to non-Native buyers. (639)
Haymarket Affair - correct answer ✔✔Strike at McCormick Reapers factory in Chicago
The silver issue - correct answer ✔✔Republican campaign poster of 1896 attacking Free Silver. The Free
Silver Movement was a political coalition of Western silver miners and Midwestern and Southern
farmers who supported an inflationary monetary policy by using the free coinage of silver for a bimetallic
standard for U.S.
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