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US History Mid-term – Round #1! Question 1-50

This resource provides answers to US history questions related to the Ku Klux Klan, literacy tests, Jim Crow laws, Dred Scott, Chinese Exclusion Act, Indian Removal Act, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and more.

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US History Mid-term – Round #1! Question 1-50

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  1. US History Mid-term – Round #1!

  2. Question 1 - 10 • Organization originally formed after the Civil War to harass “carpetbaggers”, but which quickly came to be the driving force behind the violent suppression of black of black rights across the South

  3. Answer 1 – 10 • The Ku Klux Klan

  4. Question 1 - 20 • Literacy Tests • Poll Taxes • Grandfather Clauses

  5. Answer 1 – 20 • Jim Crow Laws

  6. Question 1 - 30 • Slave who sued for his freedom in the US Supreme Court • Court ruled that he, and all other slaves, were not citizens and therefore could not sue; the Court also ruled that since all slaves were property, they could not be taken away from their owners without due process

  7. Answer 1 – 30 • Dred Scott

  8. Question 1 - 40 • Passed in 1882, renewed in 1892 & 1902, repealed in 1942 • Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years • Chinese already here could not become citizens

  9. Answer 1 – 40 • Chinese Exclusion Act

  10. Question 1 - 50 • Ordered all remaining Native Americans east of the Mississippi to relocate to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma); endorsed by Pres. Andrew Jackson

  11. Answer 1 – 50 • Indian Removal Act

  12. Question 2 - 10 • The Raven • The Tell-Tale Heart • The Fall of the House of Usher

  13. Answer 2 – 10 • Edgar Allan Poe

  14. Question 2 - 20 • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  15. Answer 2 – 20 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

  16. Question 2 - 30 • A Century of Dishonor

  17. Answer 2 – 30 • Helen Hunt Jackson

  18. Question 2 - 40 • How the Other Half Lives

  19. Answer 2 – 40 • Jacob Riis

  20. Question 2 - 50 • Leaves of Grass

  21. Answer 2 – 50 • Walt Whitman

  22. Question 3 - 10 • John Deere

  23. Answer 3 – 10 • Steel Plow

  24. Question 3 - 20 • Eli Whitney

  25. Answer 3 – 20 • Cotton Gin

  26. Question 3 - 30 • Samuel F. B. Morse

  27. Answer 3 – 30 • Telegraph

  28. Question 3 - 40 • Cyrus McCormick

  29. Answer 3 – 40 • Mechanical Reaper

  30. Question 3 - 50 • Joseph Glidden

  31. Answer 3 – 50 • Barbed Wire

  32. Question 4 - 10 • Newspaper stories which exaggerate the facts and offer bold, sometimes misleading headlines in order to sell more newspapers

  33. Answer 4 – 10 • Yellow Journalism

  34. Question 4 - 20 • Document which, once signed by factory workers, legally prevented them from joining labor unions

  35. Answer 4 – 20 • Yellow Dog Contract

  36. Question 4 - 30 • Laws passed across the South in the months following the end of the Civil War, which attempted to limit the rights of the newly freed slaves and keep them in a position of social segregation

  37. Answer 4 – 30 • Black Codes

  38. Question 4 - 40 • President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick”

  39. Answer 4 – 40 • The Great White Fleet

  40. Question 4 - 50 • 1795 • Turned over most of Ohio and what is today the sites of Chicago and Detroit to US • US agreed to pay $20,000 and respect the boundary between US and Indian territory • American settlers ignored the agreement

  41. Answer 4 – 50 • Treaty of Greenville

  42. Question 5 - 10 • Advocate for mental health reform

  43. Answer 5 – 10 • Dorothea Dix

  44. Question 5 - 20 • Gave hundreds of speeches calling for giving women the right to vote • First woman to appear on a US coin

  45. Answer 5 – 20 • Susan B. Anthony

  46. Question 5 - 30 • First Lady to our second president • Appealed to her husband “do not forget the ladies” and urged him to support giving women the right to own property and to vote

  47. Answer 5 – 30 • Abigail Adams

  48. Question 5 - 40 • Founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois • Promoted the idea of the Social Gospel

  49. Answer 5 – 40 • Jane Addams

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