How did African Americans respond to emancipation as news spread across the South?
How did southern whites respond to the end of the Civil War?
What event brought Reconstruction to an end?
Why did Johnson not punish former Confederate leaders for their role in causing the Civil War?
What was Lincoln’s plan to treat Confederate officials?
Chapter15
What was Credit Mobilier?
The landscape of the Great Plains encouraged the establishment of what?
Economic expansion in the far West after the Civil War relied heavily on what?
What incited the Indian wars of the 1860s?
Senator Henry Dawes’ beliefs about Indian integration into white society failed to recognize what about Indian values?
Why did African American men choose to enlist in the U.S. Army to serve in the West?
Where did the Chisholm Trail start and end?
What were the conditions of the Homestead Act?
Why did frontier women participate in the temperance movement?
Why did the Mormon Church abandon polygamy?
Chapter 16
Why were Horatio Alger novels popular?
What did Congress desire to do with the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Rapid industrialization was enabled by what kind of relationship between business and government?
What was needed to develop the national market for raw materials and finished goods?
What was the key to the transformation of the former Confederacy to the “New South”?
Why were farmers and rural residents able to participate in the new consumer culture of the late 19th century?
Advocates of the free maker argued that what was the key to success?
What did trusts destroy?
How did businessmen of the Gilded Age believe the government protected their rights?
How did the numbers of white-collar workers change between 1870 and 1910?
Approximately how many African Americans were lynched between 1884 and 1900?
According to James Bryce, what was to blame for the mediocre cast of presidential candidates during the Gilded Age?
Who were the majority of unskilled workers during the Gilded Age?
Chapter 17
How did the growth of manufacturing affect skilled tradesmen?
Which entertainment sites appealed to the working class?
Why did married women do “piecework” in their homes?
Why was there a high rate of child labor at the turn of the 20th century?
Jazz music developed from diverse musical traditions where?
Why did many Jews come to the U.S. from Russia?
Chapter 18
Where did the majority of immigrants come from around 1907?
Which groups were at the bottom of the racial hierarchies invented by biologists in the early 20th century?
What did eugenicists believe?
What did the devastating fires in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities such as Chicago lead to?
What was the Hull House and who founded it?
Why were immigrants loyal to party bosses and machine politicians?
Chapter 19
What was the main purpose of the Civil Service?
Ida Tarbell exposed what?
Which demographic group did Progressives generally come from?
Which Progressive Era feminist sought women to compete on equal terms with men by freeing them for domestic chores?
How did W.E.B. Du Bois differ from Booker T. Washington?
Why did some women oppose women’s suffrage?Why is the Mann Act significant?
President Roosevelt’s intervention in the Pennsylvania coal strike suggested his willingness to do what?
Why is Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle important politically?
Which president introduced racial segregation to the federal government?
The results of the 1912 presidential election suggested Americans wanted what?
What were the strategies of NAWSA and the NWP? Which did Wilson ultimately support?
What are the cardinal virtues of the Cult of True Womanhood?
What was the first public meeting to discuss women’s rights in the United States?
