American History Review: Chapters 13-16

Mrs. Spann’s Chapters 13-16 Review . .

Question?? I was the former slave who founded Tuskegee Institute?

Answer!! Booker T. washington

Question?? I founded one of the first department stores, put some items on sale in the basement and catered to female customers?

Answer!! Marshall Field

Question?? I revolutionized southern agriculture by finding ways to end its dependence on cotton, I developed new uses for the peanut and sweet potatoes?

Answer!! George Washington Carver

Question?? We are two newspaper owners who used yellow journalism to increase our newspapers’ circulation?

Answer!! William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

Question?? I was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and was also one of the founders of the NAACP. I encouraged my people to fight for equality?

Answer!! W.E.B. DuBois

Question?? I was the inventor of the Kodak camera which only cost one dollar. As a result, Americans could take photos of themselves?

Answer!! George Eastman

Question?? I coined the term “The Gilded Age.” I was one of America’s popular authors ?

Answer!! Mark Twain

Question?? What was the Supreme Court ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896)?

Answer!! The Supreme Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine, upholding segregation

Question?? In 1886, I formed the American federation of Labor (AFL), a loose organization of skilled workers from local unions devoted to specific crafts or trades. We were often called a bread and butter” union. Who am I?

Answer!! Samuel Gompers

Question?? What was the primary purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act?

Answer!! To regulate railroad rates

Question?? The idea that business should be allowed to compete and function without interference is known as ?

Answer!! Social Darwinism

Question?? What land was considered to be the “American Frontier” of the last half of the 1800s?

Answer!! The area between the Mississippi River and the Rockies

Question?? Why did the U.S. government ban the Ghost Dance?

Answer!! U.S. officials feared the ritual dance would lead to uprisings

Question?? What effect did the Dawes Act have on the lives of native Americans?

Answer!! It forced them to abandon their own culture and adopt white culture

Question?? Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?

Answer!! Helen Hunt Jackson was the author of A Century of Dishonor, in which she sharply criticized the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans

Question?? What U.S. colonel fought the Sioux Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? He disobeyed orders and he and all of his men were killed?

Answer!! Colonel George Custer

Question?? Can you name at least three Robber Barons described in the unit?

Answer!! Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Rockefeller, AndrewCarnegie

Question?? Who was the boss of New York’s corrupt political machine of the 1870s?

Answer!! • William “Boss” Tweed

Question?? Why did the ‘New Immigrants” coming to the U.S. after 1890 settle mainly in the cities?

Answer!! Most were too poor to establish themselves as farmers once the frontier was closed

Question?? What was a provision of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act ?

Answer!! It prohibited practices which restricted trade

Question?? • In what period did the largest number of immigrants enter the U.S.?

Answer!! • During Industrial building and development: 1890-1910

Question?? • Why did President Cleveland veto a literacy-test bill ?

Answer!! • He believed it discriminated against those who had never had educational opportunities

Question?? • What LAW directly affected immigrants who had ALREADY arrived in the U.S.?

Answer!! • The California Alien Land Law

Question?? • What was an effect of the Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907-1908 on Japanese immigration?

Answer!! • The Agreement decreased Japanese immigration

Question?? • What was the purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?

American History Review: Chapters 13-16

American History Review: Chapters 13-16

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