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This is a midterm study guide for US History 7, covering Reconstruction to American Imperialism. It includes key terms, practice questions, and essay questions.

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**[Midterm - Terms, Practice Multiple Choice and Essay Questions]{.smallcaps}** Terms: These terms comprise of only **[some]** of the required info you will need to study for this midterm. Please go deeper into the material and make the necessary connections between all terms as you study. The topi...

**[Midterm - Terms, Practice Multiple Choice and Essay Questions]{.smallcaps}** Terms: These terms comprise of only **[some]** of the required info you will need to study for this midterm. Please go deeper into the material and make the necessary connections between all terms as you study. The topics include Reconstruction through America's imperial power overseas. Note: be confident of yourselves! I know this is a lot of info, but you can do it!! Emancipation Proclamation John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers stock watering stock pool rebate vertical integration horizontal integration trusts capital goods Union Pacific Railroad Central Pacific Railroad Grange *Muller v. Oregon* case Bessemer process United States Steel Social Darwinism 14^th^ Amendment gospel of wealth William Graham Sumner *Plessy* v. *Ferguson* Jim Crow Chinese Exclusion Act Billion-Dollar Congress pork-barrel bills William McKinley McKinley Tariff **[Industrialization ]** Leland Stanford Cornelius Vanderbilt Jay Gould Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller J. Pierpont Morgan Terence V. Powderly Stalwart Half-Breed Pendleton Act Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland Mugwumps Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver Bimetallism Hygienic Reform Party Machine Reform Political Party Boss Marcy Tweed anti-trust reform hard/sound money Australian Ballot resumption Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois "Crime of '73" Upton Sinclair Bland-Allison Act Pullman Strike People's Party (Populists) Robber Barons Sherman Silver Purchase Act The Grangers William Jennings Bryan Gospel of Wealth crop-lien system rise of middle-class women populism Compromise of 1877 grandfather clause Bulldozing the vote Gilded Age 10 percent plan Ulysses S. Grant "Negro Rule" James Duke Scalawags Jay Gould "Grantism" Thomas Nast Knights "Waving the bloody shirt" Jane Addams Tweed Ring child labor Crédit Mobilier Haymarket Bombing Whiskey Ring Atlanta Compromise Horace Greeley Cattle Boom Rutherford B. Hayes Indian Wars Samuel Tilden Red Cloud Compromise of 1877 Sand Creek Massacre James A. Garfield G.A. Custer Roscoe Conkling Ghost Dance James G..Blaine Frederick J. Turner "radical" regimes Party Boss scalawags James G. Blaine carpetbaggers Open Door Notes redeemers Roosevelt Corollary Ku Klux Klan Panama Canal Force Acts Panic of 1893 William Seward Thaddeus Stevens Tenure of Office Act Homestead & Pacific Railway Acts armories Union Pacific "walking cities" Central Pacific nickelodeons City Beautiful Movement city parks 14^th,^ 15^th^,16^th^, 17^th^,18^th^,19^th^ Amendments *Wabash v. Pacific Railway Co.* Immigration (including Asians) Progressivism & Race Impeachment of Johnson Wisconsin Idea "Seward's Folly" Robert LaFollette 13^th^ Amendment Square Deal Election of 1864 City manager plan Copperheads Peace/War Democrats Realism Alfred T. Mahan Coal Strike 1902 Reform Darwinism Australian ballot Taft Dollar Diplomacy NAACP Meat Inspection Act initiative/referendum NAWSA Andrew Johnson Preservation v. Conservation Charles Sumner 1912 election Thaddeus Stevens U.S. Socialism Freedmen's Bureau Scalawags Carpetbaggers "Half-breeds" Northern Securities Co. James Blaine Wade-Davis Bill Taylorism Black Codes muckraking sharecropping Rough Riders ![](media/image2.jpeg)Commodore Dewey Philippine-American War Civil Service reform "Splendid Little War" feminism and "free love" Ballinger Affair Pancho Villa Boxer Rebellion Aguinaldo Open Door Notes **[Practice Questions:]{.smallcaps}** **[(1) The main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to:]{.smallcaps}** **[a. oversee relations between former masters and slaves.]{.smallcaps}** **[b. implement the process of land redistribution.]{.smallcaps}** **[c. deny access to legal redress for white southerners.]{.smallcaps}** **[d. punish former slave holders.]{.smallcaps}** **[(2) Ulysses S. Grant depended on which group for his presidential victory in 1868.]{.smallcaps}** **[a. northern Democrats]{.smallcaps}** **[b. southern Democrats]{.smallcaps}** **[c. African Americans]{.smallcaps}** **[d. National Union Party members]{.smallcaps}** **[(3) The opponent of Winfield Scott Hancock in the 1880 presidential election was:]{.smallcaps}** **[a. James G. Blaine.]{.smallcaps}** **[b. Rutherford B. Hayes.]{.smallcaps}** **[c. Chester Arthur.]{.smallcaps}** **[d. James Garfield.]{.smallcaps}** **[(4) The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson stated that:]{.smallcaps}** **[a. the right of blacks to vote was not constitutionally protected.]{.smallcaps}** **[b. black Americans could be prevented from running for office.]{.smallcaps}** **[c. Jim Crow laws were illegal.]{.smallcaps}** **[d. black and white Americans could be segregated by race, but must be supplied with equal facilities.]{.smallcaps}** **[(5) Samuel Gompers was the leader of which of the following unions?]{.smallcaps}** **[a. American Federation of Labor (AFL)]{.smallcaps}** **[b. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)]{.smallcaps}** **[c. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)]{.smallcaps}** **[d. Knights of Labor (K of L)]{.smallcaps}** **[(6) Robert LaFollette is noted as:]{.smallcaps}** **[a. the Republican governor and U.S. senator who led the Progressive reform movement in Wisconsin.]{.smallcaps}** **[b. the head of the most corrupt political machine in U.S. history.]{.smallcaps}** **[c. the first socialist elected to national office.]{.smallcaps}** **[d. Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state.]{.smallcaps}** **[Essay Questions]{.smallcaps}** 1. **[Describe some of the changes that took place during the Reconstruction Era and after. Was the "New South" a very different place after Reconstruction? Think about Presidential Reconstruction, the Radicals, Democrats, K.K.K., Jim Crow, southern industrialization, voting restrictions and farming among other issues.]{.smallcaps}** 2. **[Describe the major political issues in presidential politics in the [late] nineteenth century. Think of key players: Presidents Grant, Hayes, Arthur, and Cleveland. What political battles did they confront? How did Americans respond to some of the policies?]{.smallcaps}** 3. **[Describe the roles of the Grangers, Farmer's Alliances, and the Populist Party in Gilded Age politics. Evaluate each movement's impact, what they focused on and how they strove to make changes American society.]{.smallcaps}** 4. **[Discuss the role of the "New Immigrant" in the 1880s. Use at least 3 examples as to why they came and where they ended up in America. Discuss how average Americans responded to influx of immigrants.]{.smallcaps}** 5. **[Describe the role of the "Robber Barron" in America during the Gilded Age. What kinds of [methods] did they use to accumulate wealth and power? How did they use different ideas to *justify* their practices?]{.smallcaps}** 6. **[Examine the [trends] that brought economic development in America during the Gilded Age. In *what* areas did the economy achieve its greatest growth? What were some of its shortcomings? Describe the roles of railroads, steel production, etc., and how it made such an impact in America both socially (think of race and class) and economically.]{.smallcaps}** 7. **[The Progressive Era is known not only for the political reform achieved at all levels of government but also for the numerous social movements that emerged in the early twentieth century. For many Americans, participating in these social movements was their initial experience in political activism. Choose three of these movements and describe them. ]{.smallcaps}** 8. [**Discuss the main issues as to** [WHY] **the U.S. entered into the imperial race by the late 1890s.**]{.smallcaps} 9. **[Discuss the "political machine" and how party bosses controlled the political process. Name 3 or 4 "bosses" during this heady Gilded Age.]{.smallcaps}** [(10) **What was the significance of the 1912 election? Why was it so contentious? Who were the major players in this presidential race and what were their backgrounds of their campaigns?**]{.smallcaps}

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