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1
Question
Who orchestrated Lincoln's assassination plot and what was the intended goal?
Answer
John Wilkes Booth; decapitate the Union leadership to throw the nation into chaos
2
Question
What three immediate social strides did emancipated African Americans pursue after the Civil War?
Answer
Independent Black churches, literacy/education, participation in politics
3
Question
What did Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan require for readmission of Confederate states?
Answer
Ten percent of 1860 voters take a loyalty oath to the Union
4
Question
What was the purpose of the Wade-Davis Bill compared to Lincoln’s plan?
Answer
To require a 50% loyalty oath and stronger freedmen protections
5
Question
What were the Black Codes designed to do in the postwar South?
Answer
Restrict African Americans’ freedom through labor contracts, vagrancy laws, and other controls
6
Question
What action did Radical Republicans take in response to the Black Codes?
Answer
Took Reconstruction power and pushed for more federal oversight
7
Question
What did the First Reconstruction Act (1867) establish in the South?
Answer
Military rule over the ten former Confederates states and districting into five regions
8
Question
What were the main goals of the Thirteenth Amendment?
Answer
Abolish slavery and involuntary servitude nationwide
9
Question
What was the key effect of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Due Process clauses?
Answer
Expanded federal protection of individual rights against states
10
Question
What was the original purpose of the Ku Klux Klan when founded in 1865?
Answer
A fraternal/social group that evolved into a violent anti-Reconstruction force
11
Question
What fueled the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 and who were 'Sooners'?
Answer
Opening Indigenous lands to non-Native settlement; people who entered early to claim land
12
Question
What was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School’s motto and policy aim?
Answer
Kill the Indian in him, and save the man; forcibly assimilate Indigenous people
13
Question
What strategic purpose did the mass destruction of bison serve for U.S. policy?
Answer
Weakened Plains tribes by destroying their primary food and resources
14
Question
How did Plains Indians and Euro-American settlers fundamentally differ in land concepts?
Answer
Plains tribes saw land as communal/sacred; settlers saw land as private property
15
Question
What is notable about Major General Edward Canby in the Modoc War?
Answer
He was killed in combat, the only U.S. Army general killed during the Indian Wars
16
Question
What was Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show’s effect on perceptions of the West?
Answer
Romanticized frontier, often hiding violence and dispossession of Native peoples
17
Question
Who was Geronimo and what characterized his resistance?
Answer
Apache leader; guerrilla warfare and repeated evasion of U.S. forces
18
Question
What marked the downfall of the Ghost Dance movement’s safety in the U.S. response?
Answer
Sitting Bull’s death and the Wounded Knee Massacre
19
Question
What does the term 'Gilded Age' signify according to Twain’s critique?
Answer
Prosperous surface masking corruption, inequality, and exploitation
20
Question
What tactic did Rockefeller use to consolidate control of the oil industry?
Answer
Horizontal integration and aggressive business practices
21
Question
Define
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22
Question
What was Lebensraum in Nazi ideology?
Answer
A policy to acquire living space for Germany through conquest, especially in Eastern Europe
23
Question
What policy did Britain and France pursue in response to Nazi aggression prior to WWII?
Answer
Appeasement
24
Question
What did the Munich Agreement of 1938 permit Germany to do?
Answer
Annex the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) without Czech consent
25
Question
What phrase did Neville Chamberlain utter upon returning from Munich?
Answer
Peace for our time
26
Question
What incident did Japan use as a pretext to escalate conflict in China in 1937?
Answer
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
27
Question
What title is given to the Nazi pogrom against Jews on November 9-10, 1938?
Answer
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
28
Question
What ship carried Jewish refugees and was denied entry by multiple countries, prompting many to perish later in the Holocaust?
Answer
MS St. Louis
29
Question
What did the Neutrality Acts in the U.S. Congress aim to prevent?
Answer
Sale of arms and extension of loans to nations at war
30
Question
What was the Final Solution?
Answer
The Nazi plan for the genocide of European Jewry