Praxis 5089 Study Exam With Complete Solutions
The Northwest Ordinance - ANSWER 1787 - established a three-step plan for
territories to become states. The first step was the appointment of a governor,
secretary, and three judges by Congress. Next, the territory was organized once
it had a population of 5,000 free adult men, qualifying it to have a legislature.
When the territory grew to 60,000 people, it could apply to Congress for
admission as a state.
Waltham-Lowell System - ANSWER In the early 1800s, Francis Cabot Lowell
founded a factory in Massachusetts to produce cotton cloth. Lowell decided that
it would be desirable to employ young women from New England farms to work
in his mills until they married and started a family. He thought this would prevent
the development of a permanent underclass of factory workers — which he had
seen in England — in the United States.
Monroe Doctrine - ANSWER Written in 1823 by Secretary of State John Quincy
Adams and was made American policy by President James Monroe. Monroe
declared that the United States would not interfere with any existing European
colonies in the Americas, but would oppose the establishment of any new
colonies.
Cherokee - ANSWER Asserting that the federal government could not mediate
sovereignty disputes between states and Indian nations, President Andrew
Jackson prevailed upon Congress to pass a law providing for the removal of
Native Americans living east of the Appalachian Mountains to federal lands west
of the Mississippi River. This group of Indians appealed to the Supreme Court
and won, yet they were still marched by the United States Army from Georgia to
Oklahoma along the infamous "Trail of Tears."
Uncle Tom's Cabin - ANSWER Published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
daughter of a prominent theologian, this novel invigorated the abolitionist
movement in the northern United States with its sharply critical portrayal of
slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 - ANSWER From 1820 to 1854, Congress passed a
series of laws that admitted new states while maintaining the balance of slave
and free states. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted Chicago to be the
eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad. By introducing popular
sovereignty into the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Douglas hoped to gain southern
support. "Popular sovereignty" meant that residents could vote for their new
state to be slave or free. In effect, the act reversed the Missouri Compromise
(1820), which had barred slavery north of the 36° 30' north latitude.
, Sharecropping (or tenant farming) - ANSWER the primary way former slaves
supported themselves after the Civil War in the South. The Northern wartime
promise of the redistribution of Southern lands to former slaves, made by,
among others, General William T. Sherman during his march on Atlanta, was
rescinded quickly. During Reconstruction and after, most former slaves
resumed work as sharecroppers on plantations that continued to be owned by
White people.
Accomplishments of Progressive movement - ANSWER The progressives
worked to enhance public health and safety through increased regulation of the
food and drug industries and improved sanitation in cities.
Dubois - ANSWER W. E. B. Du Bois was a critic of Booker T. Washington's
policies as spelled out in the Atlanta Compromise address in 1895. Du Bois
believed that Washington was not a forceful advocate of total equality for
African Americans. Du Bois made this criticism very strongly in The Souls of
Black Folk. Du Bois was a founding member of the Niagara Movement, which led
to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP).
Wilson's reason for entering WWI - ANSWER In his speech to Congress seeking
a declaration of war, President Wilson emphasized that "the world must be made
safe for democracy." An idealistic impulse to expand the reach of democracy
was indeed at the heart of the president's justification for going to war.
The GI Bill - ANSWER provided returning veterans with loans for housing and
education that contributed to the growth of suburbia and increased
opportunities for higher levels of education.
Joseph McCarthy - ANSWER a Republican senator from Wisconsin, was among
the most ardent anti-Communist politicians of his generation, famous for his
1950 assertion that the State Department was dominated by Communists, an
accusation that led to congressional hearings on the matter.
United States-Soviet relations during the Cold War. - ANSWER In October 1962,
President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade to prevent the Soviet
Union from installing nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. Unlike the other
examples listed above, the Cuban missile crisis brought the two nations into
direct conflict with one another, a departure from the usual Cold War pattern of
confrontation through surrogate nations, such as Vietnam and Korea. Also,
unlike the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis
was widely seen as a clear United States success.
Montgomery Bus Boycott - ANSWER On December 1, 1955, an African American
woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in
Montgomery, AL. Her arrest prompted African Americans to organize a boycott
The Northwest Ordinance - ANSWER 1787 - established a three-step plan for
territories to become states. The first step was the appointment of a governor,
secretary, and three judges by Congress. Next, the territory was organized once
it had a population of 5,000 free adult men, qualifying it to have a legislature.
When the territory grew to 60,000 people, it could apply to Congress for
admission as a state.
Waltham-Lowell System - ANSWER In the early 1800s, Francis Cabot Lowell
founded a factory in Massachusetts to produce cotton cloth. Lowell decided that
it would be desirable to employ young women from New England farms to work
in his mills until they married and started a family. He thought this would prevent
the development of a permanent underclass of factory workers — which he had
seen in England — in the United States.
Monroe Doctrine - ANSWER Written in 1823 by Secretary of State John Quincy
Adams and was made American policy by President James Monroe. Monroe
declared that the United States would not interfere with any existing European
colonies in the Americas, but would oppose the establishment of any new
colonies.
Cherokee - ANSWER Asserting that the federal government could not mediate
sovereignty disputes between states and Indian nations, President Andrew
Jackson prevailed upon Congress to pass a law providing for the removal of
Native Americans living east of the Appalachian Mountains to federal lands west
of the Mississippi River. This group of Indians appealed to the Supreme Court
and won, yet they were still marched by the United States Army from Georgia to
Oklahoma along the infamous "Trail of Tears."
Uncle Tom's Cabin - ANSWER Published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
daughter of a prominent theologian, this novel invigorated the abolitionist
movement in the northern United States with its sharply critical portrayal of
slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 - ANSWER From 1820 to 1854, Congress passed a
series of laws that admitted new states while maintaining the balance of slave
and free states. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois wanted Chicago to be the
eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad. By introducing popular
sovereignty into the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Douglas hoped to gain southern
support. "Popular sovereignty" meant that residents could vote for their new
state to be slave or free. In effect, the act reversed the Missouri Compromise
(1820), which had barred slavery north of the 36° 30' north latitude.
, Sharecropping (or tenant farming) - ANSWER the primary way former slaves
supported themselves after the Civil War in the South. The Northern wartime
promise of the redistribution of Southern lands to former slaves, made by,
among others, General William T. Sherman during his march on Atlanta, was
rescinded quickly. During Reconstruction and after, most former slaves
resumed work as sharecroppers on plantations that continued to be owned by
White people.
Accomplishments of Progressive movement - ANSWER The progressives
worked to enhance public health and safety through increased regulation of the
food and drug industries and improved sanitation in cities.
Dubois - ANSWER W. E. B. Du Bois was a critic of Booker T. Washington's
policies as spelled out in the Atlanta Compromise address in 1895. Du Bois
believed that Washington was not a forceful advocate of total equality for
African Americans. Du Bois made this criticism very strongly in The Souls of
Black Folk. Du Bois was a founding member of the Niagara Movement, which led
to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP).
Wilson's reason for entering WWI - ANSWER In his speech to Congress seeking
a declaration of war, President Wilson emphasized that "the world must be made
safe for democracy." An idealistic impulse to expand the reach of democracy
was indeed at the heart of the president's justification for going to war.
The GI Bill - ANSWER provided returning veterans with loans for housing and
education that contributed to the growth of suburbia and increased
opportunities for higher levels of education.
Joseph McCarthy - ANSWER a Republican senator from Wisconsin, was among
the most ardent anti-Communist politicians of his generation, famous for his
1950 assertion that the State Department was dominated by Communists, an
accusation that led to congressional hearings on the matter.
United States-Soviet relations during the Cold War. - ANSWER In October 1962,
President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade to prevent the Soviet
Union from installing nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. Unlike the other
examples listed above, the Cuban missile crisis brought the two nations into
direct conflict with one another, a departure from the usual Cold War pattern of
confrontation through surrogate nations, such as Vietnam and Korea. Also,
unlike the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis
was widely seen as a clear United States success.
Montgomery Bus Boycott - ANSWER On December 1, 1955, an African American
woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in
Montgomery, AL. Her arrest prompted African Americans to organize a boycott
