midterm review. how did the labor force change during the industrial revolution? answer : skilled...
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Midterm Review
How did the labor force change during the Industrial Revolution?
ANSWER: Skilled workers were replaced by unskilled
workers
Who discovered a way to mass-produce steel?
ANSWER: Henry Bessemer
What was the name of the first commissioned and most celebrated African-American infantry?
ANSWER: The 54th
Massachusetts
What was the result of the invention of the Bessemer Process?
ANSWER: Steel could be
created quickly and cheaply
What two industries grew rapidly because steel could be mass-produced? ANSWER:
Construction & Railroads
What are tenements?
ANSWER: Small, cheaply built
apartment buildings where
many immigrants lived.
The name of the processing center where 2/3 of all immigrants were processed was:
ANSWER:
Ellis Island
The official nickname for Arizona is:
ANSWER: The Grand Canyon
State
Who published the abolitionist newspaper “The Liberator”?
ANSWER:
William Lloyd Garrison
BONUS QUESTION
ANSWER: A process of negotiating where employees work together with their labor unions to get what they want from their employer.
What is collective
bargaining?
The climate in Arizona is _______ which means_______:
ANSWER: arid, which means dry
Sectionalism means:
ANSWER: Excessive concern or interest for one region over anotherto the extent it harms the whole
The 3 geographic regions in AZ are:
ANSWER: Colorado PlateauTransition ZoneBasin & Range
California was admitted as a free state because of what compromise?
ANSWER:
Compromise of 1850
Why were Labor Unions difficult to create? ANSWER:
Employers didn’t like them and resisted
them
Why did Labor Unions oppose immigration? ANSWER:
They feared immigrants would take
all the jobs from the current Americans
Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed?
ANSWER: Many Americans
worried that Chinese immigrants
were hurting the economy.
What is horizontal integration?
ANSWER: Owning all the businesses in a
certain field
What is vertical integration?
ANSWER: Owning all the
steps in the production process
The official motto and its meaning for Arizona is:
ANSWER: Ditat Deus which
means God Enriches
The three regions in the U.S. in the early 1800’s were: ANSWER:
North, South and West
The most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad was:
ANSWER:
Harriett Tubman
Who wrote the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?
ANSWER:
Harriett Beecher Stowe
What effect did “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” have on Americans?
ANSWER:
Exposed the harsh realities of
slavery
What is cotton diplomacy?
ANSWER: The belief that Great Britain would help the South in the war because they needed the cotton.
BONUS QUESTION
1.Maine became a free state
2.Missouri became a slave state
3.No states or territories above the 36.30 parallel (except Missouri) could have slaves.
What 3 things happened because of the Missouri
Compromise?
What are copperheads?
ANSWER: People in the North who objected to the war
What branch of government decided slaves were only property AND what was the name of the case?
ANSWER:
Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott decision
Who gets the credit for inventing the light bulb?
ANSWER: Thomas Edison
The 5 C’s of Arizona are:
ANSWER: Copper, Cotton,
Climate, Citrus, Cattle
Once the cities got too crowded, how did buildings change?
ANSWER: Vertical
construction of skyscrapers
What did Henry Ford invent that made it cheaper and easier to make products for the public?
ANSWER: Moving assembly
line
What did Abraham Lincoln feel was the highest priority in the civil war?
ANSWER:
Saving the Union
What were some of the push factors that caused immigrants to leave their home country?
ANSWER: Poverty, famine,
political upheaval, religious
persecution
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
ANSWER:
Fort Sumter
What was the first state to secede from the union?
ANSWER:
South Carolina
During the Civil War, the North was known as the ___________ and the South was known as the ___________.
ANSWER:
Union, Confederacy
What was the “March to the Sea”?
ANSWER: A plan by Gen’l
William T Sherman to march thousands of
troops through Georgia and take the city of
Savannah
The first battle at Bull Run was significant because
ANSWER: It revealed this would be a long and bloody
war.
The head general of the South was _______________ and of the North was ______________.
ANSWER: Robert E. Lee /
Ulysses S. Grant
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied …by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This is the:
ANSWER:
15th Amendment
Which amendment defined citizenship and gave equal rights to all men in America?
ANSWER:
14th Amendment
What were black codes?
ANSWER:
Local laws designed to limit the freedoms of
African Americans
What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?
ANSWER:
Outlawed slavery
The group which used violence to intimidate African-Americans was:
ANSWER:
The KKK(Ku Klux Klan)
What kind of warfare did General Sherman use in his campaign through the South?
ANSWER: Total War
Why did General Lee surrender his troops to General Grant?
ANSWER: They were
surrounded by Union forces (at
Petersburg)
What was the name of the town where General Lee surrendered the Southern army to General Grant?
ANSWER: Appomattox Court
House
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
ANSWER:
John Wilkes Booth
Which battle had the bloodiest day in the Civil War?
ANSWER: The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg)
What did Lincoln finally release because of the victory at Antietam?
ANSWER: The Emancipation
Proclamation
The effect of The Emancipation Proclamation was:
ANSWER: Declared all slaves in the rebel states
were free
BONUS QUESTION
ANSWER: The idea that it is God’s will that America will expand from sea to shining sea
What is manifest destiny?
Who became the richest man in America after owning 90% of the oil industry?
ANSWER:
John D. Rockefeller
What speech did Lincoln give that inspired equality and liberty for all ?
ANSWER:
The Gettysburg Address
What is the name of the president of the Confederate states of America?
ANSWER:
Jefferson Davis
What city did Sherman offer Lincoln as a “Christmas Present,” meaning he had defeated it?
ANSWER:
Savannah, Georgia
What was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson?
ANSWER:
Segregation became legal
What is segregation?
ANSWER: Segregation is
separating groups of people by race or ethnic groups
The process in which a person would pay the rent on his land by giving up 1/3 of his crops was:
ANSWER:
Sharecropping
The problem with sharecropping was:
ANSWER:
It kept the sharecropper in an
endless cycle of debt and poverty
What were Jim Crow Laws?
ANSWER:
Local laws that enforced
segregation
Who invented the telephone?ANSWER:
Alexander Graham Bell
What is a labor union?
ANSWER: An organization
(usually made up of workers) working to
improve wages & working conditions.
