Post Civil-War Quizzo Review

Mr. HolmesMay 28, 2012

Chapter 20Round 1

1. When people buy more and invest in business, this is called a _______. Likewise a bust is when the economy goes down.

2. This man can take credit for the creation of the telephone.

3. State one of the effects of the railroad system. (Out of the 7 reviewed in class.)

4. State one of the three reasons, business evolved into corporations.

5. What was the symbol of the gilded age?

Chapter 20 Answers1. Boom2. Alexander Graham Bell3. Anyone of these answers:– Jobs, Communication, Time Zones, Helped settle the

West, Weakened Native Americans, More control of the environment, Linked economies of the West/East

4. Anyone of these answers:Raise large amounts of money, Banks more likely to give

money since the company goes on after the founder dies, Owners/Investor do NOT have to pay debt of business.

5. Golden Leaf

Chapter 19Round 2

1. This man took the west and changed history.2. This group was targeted by the western government.

The government even went so far as to exclude them from all aspects of society.

3. This group was targeted due to religious persecutions.4. This group went west to get away from the KKK and

the share-cropping system.5. This group was forced to practice main-stream

American culture and many were forced on plots of land called “reservations.”

Chapter 19 Answers

1. Buffalo Bill2. Chinese-Americans3. Mormons4. African-Americans5. Native Americans

Chapter 18Round 3

1. Why did abolitionist oppose the Compromise of 1877?

2. What rumor spread among the former slaves?3. What brought Reconstruction to an end in the

South?4. Why did the House of Representatives impeach

Andrew Johnson?5. Why was cotton hurting the Southern economy?

(Give 1 out of the 3 reasons)

Chapter 18 Answers

1. They believed that the South would not respect African-Americans rights.

2. That they would receive 40 acres and a mule3. The Compromise of 18774. He violated the Tenure of Office Act when he fired his

secretary of war.5. Any of the following: – The more they produced, the lower the price fell– It robbed the soil of vital nutrients.– They grew it in place of food crops.

Who am I?Round 4

1. I assassinated Lincoln.2. This House of Representatives member was

the leader of the Radical Republicans.3. I helped found the AFL. 4. We were a secret group that wanted to

dominate Southern living in the South.5. I improved Graham’s telephone design.

Who Am I? Answers

1. John Wilkes Booth2. Thaddeus Stevens3. Samuel Gompers4. KKK5. Granville T. Woods