Midterm Review

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RECONSTRUCTION Chapter 181) Describe the condition of the South after the Civil War. towns, cities , railroads, farms destroyed - plantations have no slaves to work land2) Reconstruction was not only the rebuilding of the South butthe readmitting of southern states into the Union3) Lincolns plan for Reconstruction was called: Ten Percent Plan4) Why did Radical Republicans dislike Lincolns plan? Repub. want to punish South, Lincoln is being too easy and forgiving to the South5) What govt. organization helps blacks & whites in the South after the war? Freedmens Bureau6) Johnson becomes President because of this assassin: John Wilkes Booth shots Lincoln7)

8) Citizens have equal protection under law & the state must follow dues process of law: 14th Amend9) What did the Reconstruction Act do the punish & control the South? rewrite state constitutions, 5 military districts, ratify 14th Amend, blacks vote & ex-Confederates cannot vote/hold office10) Why does Congress try to impeach Johnson? Johnson is helping the South resist reconstruction11) Those that move South to take advantage (some to help)? carpetbaggers12) Process where blacks become trapped into a new form of slavery: sharecropping13) How did the election of 1876 end Reconstruction? Hayes promises to remove military if allowed to win election14) Two ways that blacks were denied their voting rights: Poll taxes and Literacy tests15) Jim Crow laws were legal so long as separate but equal in this court case: Plessy v. FergusonIMMIGRATION Chapter 2116) Push Factor conditions that drive people from their home.

17) Pull Factor conditions that attract people to a new country

18) The New Colossus can be found at base of the Statue of Liberty.19) Immigrants settle in cities in areas called ethnic neighborhoods for a sense of safety & familiarity.

20) Unsafe, crowded apartments in the city: tenements21) A book that shows how the poor live: How the Other Half Lives22) Jane Addams creates these homes to help the poor: settlement house Hull House23)

24) A law that is a good example of nativism: Chinese Exclusion Act Nativists feared that immigrants would take their jobsINDUSTRY Chapter 2025) This factor helped industry be more efficient & created new businesses: inventions26) Consumers influence what business produces, private ownership of business = capitalism27) Idea that govt. should have as little to do with the economy as possible: laissez-faire28) The principle of scarcity/supply & demand impacts the price of goods. Too much of a good, the cost will decrease and not enough of a good, it s cost will increase.29) When a company takes over other companies to create one large company: consolidation30) Why is competition so important? keeps prices low and improves quality of goods31)

32) When one business control all or most of an industry: monopoly33) The most famous American inventor patents over 1000 items: Thomas Edison

34) H Fords creation that makes cars cheaper: assembly line35) First large successful union: American Federation of Labor (AFL)36) Why did workers form unions (goals of unions)? better pay, less hours, safer conditions and end child labor37) What caused some to believe that unions were bad? Haymarket Riot ends with workers & police being killed strikes turn violent38) This event shows that the work place is not safe & regulations are needed: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire13th Amendment: outlaws slavery

15th Amendment: cannot stop voting based on race or skin color

New Immigrant isfrom S/E Europe, Asia, S. America, after Civil War, Catholic

Old Immigrant isfrom N/W Europe, prior to Civil War, Protestant

JP Morgan, was so powerful he bailed out the US govt. during a depression! His bank consolidates steel, shipping and railroads.

Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant, controlled the steel industry. His factories made more steel than Britain!

Rockefeller, owned Standard Oil - controlling over 90% of the industry. Eventually his company was broken up into several oil companies that are still around today!