History Mid-Term Exams!!
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Legislative, Executive, Judical Branch | Name the 3 branches of US Government. |
| 30 years old min.; citizen for 9 years. | What are the requirements for Senator? |
| 6 years | What is the term for a Senator? |
| 25 years old min,; US citizen for 7 years. | What are the requirements for a Representative? |
| 2 years | What is the term for a Representative? |
| Vice President of the US | Who is the President of the Senate? |
| Population | What determines the number of Representatives for each state? |
| 2 from each state | How many Senators are from each state? |
| 16th Amendment | What Amendment gave Congress the right to impose income taxes? |
| 2/3rds both houses of Congress 2/3rds State Legislatures call Convention 3/4ths State Legislatures ratify amendment | Explain the process of amending the Constitution of the United States. |
| It says that you have the right to bear arms | Explain what the 2nd amendment to the Constitution says. |
| It says that US Gov. cannot stop you from your religion, US Gov. cannot est. a religion, US Gov. cannot stop you from your freedom of speech, & US Gov. cannnot stop you from protesting as long as if its peacefully. | Explain what the 1st amendment to the Constitution says. |
| Juneau | Alaska |
| Honolulu | Hawaii |
| Augusta | Maine |
| Montpelier | Vermont |
| Concord | New Hampshire |
| Boston | Massachusetts |
| Albany | New York |
| Harrisburg | Pennsylvania |
| Providence | Rhode Island |
| Hartford | Connecticut |
| Trenton | New Jersey |
| Annapolis | Maryland |
| Richmond | Virginia |
| Charleston | West Virginia |
| Raleigh | North Carolina |
| Columbia | South Carolina |
| Atlanta | Georgia |
| Tallahassee | Florida |
| Montgomery | Alabama |
| Nashville | Tennessee |
| Frankfort | Kentucky |
| Columbus | Ohio |
| Indianapolis | Indiana |
| Lansing | Michigan |
| Madison | Wisconsin |
| Springfield | Illinois |
| Jefferson City | Missouri |
| Little Rock | Arkansas |
| Baton Rouge | Louisiana |
| Des Moines | Iowa |
| St. Paul | Minnesota |
| Bismarck | North Dakota |
| Pierre | South Dakota |
| Lincoln | Nebraska |
| Topeka | Kansas |
| Oklahoma City | Oklahoma |
| Austin | Texas |
| Helena | Montana |
| Cheyenne | Wyoming |
| Denver | Colorado |
| Santa Fe | New Mexico |
| Boise | Idaho |
| Salt Lake City | Utah |
| Phoenix | Arizona |
| Olympia | Washington |
| Salem | Oregon |
| Carson City | Nevada |
| Sacramento | California |
| Jackson | Mississippi |
| Dover | Delaware |
| Reconstruction | This was the process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states without slavery. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Its purpose was to provide relief for all people, black and white, in the South. |
| Ban slavery & people had to take a loyalty oath to the US. | List the 2 points of Lincoln's 10% Plan. |
| John Wilkes Booth & a actor. | Name the person who assassinated Lincoln & what was his occupation? |
| CONGRESS IS IN SESSION- President---Bill---Pocket---10days---Becomes law!! CONGRESS OUT OF SESSION- President---Bill---Pocket---10days---Bill dies!! ****CONGRESS CANNOT OVERRIDE POCKET VETO!!!!!!!! | Explain what a Pocket Veto is. |
| Reservations | Areas of Federal land set aside for the American Indians. |
| Ghost Dance | Religious movement begun by Wovoka. |
| George Westinghouse | This person invented the air brakes for trains. |
| Thomas Edison | This person invented the light bulb. |
| The Wright Brothers | They invented the first airplane. |
| Philantropy | Giving away large sums of money to charities to help the poor. |
| Corporations | Companies that sell shares of stock to investors in order to raise money. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | This person invented the telephone. |
| Henry Bessemer | He started the Bessemer Process. |
| Horizontal Integration | Owning all the businesses in a certain field. |
| Vertical Integration | Owning all of the businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process. |
| John D. Rockefeller | Person who had a monopoly in the steel business. |
| Fredrick Taylor | He was an efficiency engineer with steel company, who worked to find ways to raise production and lower costs. |
| Dr. Benjamin Silliman | This person discovered how to convert crude oil into kerosene. |
| Airplanes & Automoblies | What were 2 major inventions resulted from the gasoline powered engine? |
| Eight-hour workday; equal pay for equal work; & to end child labor | Name 3 things that the Knights of Labor tried to get for the Union members from company management. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | (1863) Order announced by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that freed the slaves in non-occupied areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863. |
| Jim Crow Laws | These were laws that forced were forced segregation in the southern states. |
| Redeemers | A group of southern Democrats that helped return the Democratic Party to political power in the South during Reconstruction. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
| Carpetbaggers | This is what white southerners called Republicians from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction. |
| Scalawags | This is what the name that Southern Democrats gave to white southern Republicans during Reconstruction. |
| Poll tax | This was a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote. |
| Amnesty | This is an unofficial pardon. |
| Segregation | This was a forced separation of people of different races in public places. |
| Louisiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas. | What were the 4 states that were re-admitted into the Union under the 10% plan? |
| John Wilkes Booth and a actor | Who was the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln and what was his job? |
| Andrew Johnson | He was vice-president under Abraham Lincoln. |
| Texas Longhorns | Hardly breed of cattle raised by ranchers throughout western Texas. |
| George Custer | Man who was in charge of the US Calvary at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
| Apache, Pawnee, Sioux, Arapaho, Cheyenne. | Name 5 of the Great Indian Tribes. |
| It provided better transportation for people and goods, helped businesses. | What effect did the transcontinental railroad have on the western settlement? |
| Economic & population expansion created greater demand for beef. | What was 1 factor to the cattle boom? |
| The price of beef went way down | What was 1 factor led to Cattle Kingdom's decline? |
| Pullman Riot | (1894) Railroad strike by workers at Pullman's Palace Car Company that stopped traffic on many rairoad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs. |
| Edison's Research Center | It began supplying electricity to dozens of buildings in NYC in September 1882. But couldn't send electricity over long distances. |
| Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903. | Where did the first airplane fly? |
| Pinkerton Agency | Agancy that Henry Frick hired to break Union by force. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Person who started the oil-refining business. |
| Henry Frick | Company chairman that changed the Carnegie Steel Company when he tried to bring new machinery to the plant. |
| Corliss Steam Engine | This machine powered equipment in the exhibtion's Machinery Hall & it drew many spectators. |
| Keating-Owen Child Labor Act | (1916) Legislation that prohibited companies from shipping their products across state lines if they employed children under 14; was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1918. |
| DC power plant | Was created by Thomas Edison |
| AC power plant | Was created by George Westinghouse. |
| It could not go a long distance. | What was the main problem with the use of the DC power plant? |
| It led to the set the labor movement back for several years. | What led to the defeat of the Pullman Strike? |
| Skilled and unskilled workers. | What did the AFL union 2 workers it represented.? |
| Suburbs | These are residental neighborhoods surrounding a city. |
| Settlement Houses | Neighborhood centers in poor areas, staffed by professionals and volunteers, which offered education, recreation, and social activities. |
| Realism | This is a writing style that presented accurate images of American society. |
| Benevolent Societies | Organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death |
| Tenements | These were poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived. |
| Linotype | This is an automatic typesetting machine that reduced the time and cost of printing. |
| Steerage | This is in a ship's lower levels. Many immigrants traveled this way |
| Jane Addams | She was a founder of the Hull House in Chicago and an activist in the settlement houses movement. |
| Horatio Alger Jr. | He wrote a popular series of "rags to riches" novels. |
| Louisa May Alcott | She wrote about young women and domestic life. Little Women. |
| Winslow Homer | He was a landscape and seascape painter who showed the struggle of humans against nature. |
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