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HY 121 - MidtermWhat constitutional amendment irrevocably abolished slavery throughout the United States? - correct
answer ✔✔The 13th Amendment
General William Tecumseh Sherman's special field order 15 (Forty Acres and a mule) - correct answer
✔✔Set aside 40 acres tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for former slaves
The 15th Amendment dealt with the issue of - correct answer ✔✔Suffrage/the right to vote
The convict lease system in the United States - correct answer ✔✔Has been described as a method used
to re-slave African Americans
Provided for the separate but equal doctrine - correct answer ✔✔Plessy v. Ferguson
Provided the economic basis for the Plains Indians'way of life - correct answer ✔✔The buffalo or bison
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - correct answer ✔✔provided that no Chinese laborer could enter the
United States
Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis - correct answer ✔✔Stated the distinctive qualities of
American culture were formed in the West
The Ghost Dance - correct answer ✔✔Was a religious revitalization campaign among Native Americans
Marked the end of the Indian wars - correct answer ✔✔The Battle of Wounded Knee
The era from 1870-1890 is commonly known by a derogatory name - correct answer ✔✔The Gilded Age
, Nativism can best be described as - correct answer ✔✔A dislike of foreigners, the desire to limit
immigration, and the concern over anything considered un-American
"Boss" William M. Tweed - correct answer ✔✔Was the head of a political machine
Was the cartoonist that helped to bring down Tammany Hall - correct answer ✔✔Thomas Nest
The theory of Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔✔Argued that the theory of Evolution applied to
human society
Known as the Pittsburgh of the South - correct answer ✔✔Birmingham, Alabama
Headed Standard Oil - correct answer ✔✔John D. Rockefeller
Was the central figure in the steel industry - correct answer ✔✔Andrew Carnegie
Through honesty, charm, hard work, and aggressiveness, a young boy can rise in the world to become a
successful man that idea would appear in the novels of - correct answer ✔✔Horatio Alger
A group founded in 1892, that advocated a variety of reform issues, including free coinage of silver,
income tax, postal savings, regulation of railroads, and direct election of U.S. Senators - correct answer
✔✔Populists
The Cross of Gold Speech was given by - correct answer ✔✔William Jennings Bryan
The de Lome letter - correct answer ✔✔Criticized William McKinley
Led directly to the American military becoming a more modern system - correct answer ✔✔The Elihu
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