AMH 2020 Exam 1
Reconstruction and its End - Answer • (1867-1877)
• starts at the end of civil war
• this affects many Americans at this time, Ended with the compromise of 1877.
Western Expansion - Answer • Big piece of what is happening during the late 1800's
• West was the future of the US many people thought
• One big question was whether or not the states were going to be slave states or not?
• West is a place of vast resources (gold, silver, minerals)
• All this added up to be money and new currency for the country
• Funds a lot of the development of the IR
American Imperialism - Answer • America aquires Puerto Rico and Hawaii
• Involvement in Philippines causes tension between China and US
• America now wants to know how to get into china's economy and market
The Gilded Age - Answer • Drops during the great depression
• Andrew Carnegie:
• "Gospel of wealth" - his philosophy
• o"our duty to become as wealthy as we possible can"
• o"the man who dies rich, dies disgraced" you should use your money for a good cause
• Builds a steel empire and sells it and becomes rich
• Funded FAMUs library
• Big on education
The Progressive Era - Answer A period of social activism and political reform in the
United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the
Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government by exposing and
undercutting political machines and their bosses and establishing further means of
direct democracy.
The WWI Era - Answer also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a
global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November
1918.
The Twenties - Answer requently referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age,
while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age Twenties"
because of the economic boom following World War I, emphasizing the era's social,
artistic, and cultural dynamism.
The Great Depression - Answer a severe worldwide economic depression in the 1930s.
The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it
started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most
widespread depression of the 20th century.
, The Atlanta Compromise Speech - Answer An agreement struck in 1895 between
Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American
leaders, and Southern white leaders.
The agreement was that Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white
political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic
education and due process in law.Blacks would not agitate for equality, integration, or
justice, and Northern whites would fund black educational charities.
Compromise of 1877 - Answer unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876
U.S. presidential election
Ended the Reconstruction Era
The removal of all federal troops from the former Confederate States. (Troops remained
in only Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, but the Compromise finalized the
process.)
The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes's cabinet. (David M. Key
of Tennessee became Postmaster General.)
The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the
South (this had been part of the "Scott Plan," proposed by Thomas A. Scott, which
initiated the process that led to the final compromise).
Legislation to help industrialize the South and get them back on their feet after the
terrible loss during the Civil War.
Debt Peonage - Answer A person's pledge of their labor or services as security for the
repayment for a debt or other obligation. The services required to repay the debt may
be undefined, and the services' duration may be undefined. Debt bondage can be
passed on from generation to generation.
Exodusters - Answer Name given to African Americans who migrated from states along
the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster
Movement or Exodus of 1879.
Mississippi Plan - Answer Happened in 1875 and was devised by the Democratic Party
to overthrow the Republican Party in the state of Mississippi by means of organized
threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote.
Included poll taxes against blacks and poor people
Literacy test were also implemented
Grandfather clause- if yo grand-pappy couldn't vote yo ass cant vote *****
The New South - Answer Phrase that has been used intermittently since the American
Civil War to describe the American South, after 1877. The term "New South" is used in
contrast to the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system of the antebellum
period.
Reconstruction and its End - Answer • (1867-1877)
• starts at the end of civil war
• this affects many Americans at this time, Ended with the compromise of 1877.
Western Expansion - Answer • Big piece of what is happening during the late 1800's
• West was the future of the US many people thought
• One big question was whether or not the states were going to be slave states or not?
• West is a place of vast resources (gold, silver, minerals)
• All this added up to be money and new currency for the country
• Funds a lot of the development of the IR
American Imperialism - Answer • America aquires Puerto Rico and Hawaii
• Involvement in Philippines causes tension between China and US
• America now wants to know how to get into china's economy and market
The Gilded Age - Answer • Drops during the great depression
• Andrew Carnegie:
• "Gospel of wealth" - his philosophy
• o"our duty to become as wealthy as we possible can"
• o"the man who dies rich, dies disgraced" you should use your money for a good cause
• Builds a steel empire and sells it and becomes rich
• Funded FAMUs library
• Big on education
The Progressive Era - Answer A period of social activism and political reform in the
United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the
Progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government by exposing and
undercutting political machines and their bosses and establishing further means of
direct democracy.
The WWI Era - Answer also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a
global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November
1918.
The Twenties - Answer requently referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age,
while in Europe the period is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age Twenties"
because of the economic boom following World War I, emphasizing the era's social,
artistic, and cultural dynamism.
The Great Depression - Answer a severe worldwide economic depression in the 1930s.
The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it
started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most
widespread depression of the 20th century.
, The Atlanta Compromise Speech - Answer An agreement struck in 1895 between
Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American
leaders, and Southern white leaders.
The agreement was that Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white
political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic
education and due process in law.Blacks would not agitate for equality, integration, or
justice, and Northern whites would fund black educational charities.
Compromise of 1877 - Answer unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876
U.S. presidential election
Ended the Reconstruction Era
The removal of all federal troops from the former Confederate States. (Troops remained
in only Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, but the Compromise finalized the
process.)
The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes's cabinet. (David M. Key
of Tennessee became Postmaster General.)
The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the
South (this had been part of the "Scott Plan," proposed by Thomas A. Scott, which
initiated the process that led to the final compromise).
Legislation to help industrialize the South and get them back on their feet after the
terrible loss during the Civil War.
Debt Peonage - Answer A person's pledge of their labor or services as security for the
repayment for a debt or other obligation. The services required to repay the debt may
be undefined, and the services' duration may be undefined. Debt bondage can be
passed on from generation to generation.
Exodusters - Answer Name given to African Americans who migrated from states along
the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exoduster
Movement or Exodus of 1879.
Mississippi Plan - Answer Happened in 1875 and was devised by the Democratic Party
to overthrow the Republican Party in the state of Mississippi by means of organized
threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote.
Included poll taxes against blacks and poor people
Literacy test were also implemented
Grandfather clause- if yo grand-pappy couldn't vote yo ass cant vote *****
The New South - Answer Phrase that has been used intermittently since the American
Civil War to describe the American South, after 1877. The term "New South" is used in
contrast to the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system of the antebellum
period.
