History: Definition of Terms

DEFINITIONS: 2 Points Each! Define the Following Terms:
1. Freedmen’s Bureau 2. Sharecropping 3. Black Codes 4. Thirteenth Amendment 5. Fourteenth Amendment 6. Fifteenth Amendment 7. Tenure of Office Act 8. Impeachment 9. Carpetbaggers 10. Scalawags 11. Redeemers 12. Gilded Age 13. Bargain of 1877 14. Robber Barons 15. Dawes Act
16. Social Darwinism 17. New South 18. Populists 19. Open Door Policy 20. Progressivism 21. Muckraking 22. Scientific Management 23. Roosevelt Corollary 24. Moral Imperialism 25. Selective Service Act 26. Tulsa Riot 27. Red Scare 28. League of Nations 29. Flappers 30. New Negro

FILL IN THE BLANKS: 2 Points Each!
31. Grandfather clause, poll taxes, and gerrymandering are all methods of: _________________________________
32. Booker T. Washington’s widely praised speech at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition: _________________________________
33. This right helped settle hundreds of industrial disputes and encouraged improvements in factory safety and the establishment of pension plans: _________________________________
34. A remarkable feat of engineering constructed by the U.S. over a 10-mile strip in Latin America: _________________________________
35. The British luxury liner, sunk by a German submarine, killing thousands, including Americans: _________________________________

36. President Wilson’s this statement of American war aims and his vision of a new international order: _________________________________
37. Negotiations signed at the end of WWI outlining postwar peace: _________________________________
38. Waves of African Americans flooded into the Northern industrial cities in search of opportunities: _________________________________
39. The flourishing of the vibrant Black cultural community that established links with New York’s artistic mainstream for the basis of: _________________________________
40. The greatest economic disaster in modern history: _________________________________
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS: 4 Points Each! (Answer in complete paragraphs: 5-7 sentences)
41. What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South? Discuss and list Black Leaders during this period.
42. Discuss the rise of Big Businesses and key barons. Why were railroads so important to America’s second industrial revolution?
43. Discuss the Spanish-American War and its impact on American Expansionism. Discuss the Chinese Exclusion Act.
44. Discuss Progressivism and identify the main groups and ideas that drove the Progressive movements.
45. How did WWI and its aftermath provide African Americans with opportunities? Discuss W.E.B. DuBois and the rise of the NAACP. Discuss Marcus Garvey and the rise of Garveyism.

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