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History
9th Grade
01/18/2012

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What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
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Provided food, clothing, shelter, and education for freed slaves
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What was the goal of the laws passed by Radical Republicans?

 

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Help provided Civil Rights of African Americans
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What was President Lincoln's goal for reconstruction?
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Bring the country back together
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Why did many slaves become sharecroppers?
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They did not have money to buy land or start a business
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What did Plessy v. Ferguson decide?
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Seperate but Equal
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The rights provided by the 14th and 15th Amendments were limited in the south by what various things?
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KKK, Poll Tax, Literacy Tests, Black Codes, Jim Crowe Laws
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How did Rutherford B. Hayes become president?
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Compromise of 1877
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How did the Compromise of 1877 help the southern Democrats?
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Gained back control of southern politics
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What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and who did they benefit the most? 
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Freed slaves gave them to civil rights, and right to vote. Benefitted African Americans
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After Reconstruction, how was life for African Americans in the south?
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Limited by Jim Crowe Laws, KKK, Poll Tax, Literacy Tests, etc.
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What two black educators believed that blacks should get an education?
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
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In the late 1800s, railroads led to increased settlement of what part of the country?
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Western Expansion
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How did railroad companies contribute to the financial problems of the Midwestern farmers during the 1870s and 1880s?
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Charged them with high prices to move their goods
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Why was there a decline in buffalo population?
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Western settlers and railroads
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What did the Plains Indians use buffalo for?
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Food, shelter, clothing, etc.
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What was the Dawes Act?
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Wanted to change indians into farmers
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How did the railroad lead to industrial growth? 
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Helped the growth of the industries
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What does the policy of laissez-faire mean?
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Hands off- no government intervention
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What does monopoly mean?
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Controlling the ownership and distribution of a product
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How did industrialists like Rockefeller andCarnegie help society?
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Gave money to various causes Rockefeller Foundation
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Immigrants were attracted to cities because of what?
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Factory Jobs
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How did the political machines increase their power in large cities?
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Promised jobs and things to immigrants
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What is meant by secret ballot?
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you can vote privately
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what is meant by recall?
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you can remove someone from office
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what is meant by referendum?
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you can have public vote on an issue or item
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what was the purpose of secret ballot, recall, and referendum?
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to get rid of political corruption
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how were workers treated in the late 1800s?
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very poorly low pay poor working conditions could be fined for joining unions
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why did workers form unions?
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strength in numbers. less chance of getting fired for speaking out
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what were working conditions like in the late 1800s?
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very unsafe with no regulations to protect workers
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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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 Discriminated against and resctricted immigration to U.S.
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What was the goal of the progressives?
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to improve working conditions and assist in social problems
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who was albert beveridge and what idd he belive?
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Imperalist who wanted to establish more trade and new markets worldwide
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What were the causes of the spanish american war?
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yellow journalism de lome letter expansionism assisting the cubans
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what aws yellow journalism?
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exaggerating reporting that led to support of the public for the spanish american war
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What were the results of the spanish american war?
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u.s. gained more land and naval bases
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what was dollar diplomacy?
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lending money to American businesses in other countries and controlling economy of other countries
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What was meant by Big Stick Diplomacy?
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protected business interests in latin america
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what was president teddy roosevelt's foreign policy toward latin america?
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monroe doctrine provides we protect interests in latin america
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what as the policy of the united states at the beginning of world war 1?
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nuetrality
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what were the reasons for the u.s. entering world war 1?
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submarine attacks
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what group found job opportunities in the north during world war 1?
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african americans
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what was the sedition acts?
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could not speak out against war
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what was the role of women during world war 1?
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working to support families and the war
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how did president wilson purpose to create lasting peace in the world?
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14 points and league of nations
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how did the U.S. senate feel about the treaty of versailles?
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did not accept, did not want to be tied up to other nations
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the united states emerged from world war 1 as a what?
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world power
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what were some of the problems farmers faced in the 1920s?
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producing too much food
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what right did the women's movement hep to get passed?
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right to vote
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what led to economic growth in the 1920s?
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more products and more corruption
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Immigration was limited during the 1920s for what reason?
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wanted to provide jobs for americans
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whad did the harlem renaissance symbolize?
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pride to african americans poetry, literature, and music etc.
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what were the palmer raids?
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to find communists who might try to destroy u.s. government
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what is nativism?
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favor those born in one's country
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what were the causes of the great depression?
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too much credit available over production buying stocks on margin etc.
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what was the scopes trial?
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pitted evolution the ory against beliefs of bible. conflicted with traditional values
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what were flappers?
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women of the 1920s who also went against tradition
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how did the american public feel about president hoover?
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did not like him; blamed him for depression
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what was  a major difference between hoover and roosevelt's approach to the great depression?
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level of government involvement
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