History True Or False Questions

1.Robert Smalls served several terms as governor of Alabama.

2.The Dred Scott case amendment of July1864 required that 20％ of the voters of the South take an oath of future loyalty before the restoration process could begin.

3.Hiram Revels was chosen as Lincoln's running mate in 1868 because he was one of the strongest abolitionists in the Republican Party.

4.The Black codes were established by the North Carolina legislature in March 1864 to provide freedman with shelter, food, and medical aid and help them establish schools and find employment.

5.The Fourteenth Amendment abolished slavery only in the states which were in rebellion against the United States·

6.President Andrew Johnson was impeached after he tried to discharge Secretary of War Stonewall Jackson.

7.Redeemer was a term applied to native Northern politicians during Reconstruction.

8.Ulysses S. Grant was the only president between Jackson and Wilson to serve two full and consecutive terms.

9.During Republican rule in the South, the first adequate system on public education was established on paper at least, state and local governments were democratized, and funds were appropriated for an enormous expansion of public services and welfare responsibilities.

10.Senator Charles Young was the first African American to be elected to a full term in the United States Senate.

11. The Force Acts were created during the Buchanan administration to fight the Ku Klux Klan.

12.After the Compromise of 1877，Ulysses S. Grant

Became president and southern Republicans were

abandoned to their fate.

13.Between 1889 and 1899, an average of 42，000

blacks were lynched every year.

14.By 1900，there were fifty-two states in the union.

15.In 1905，about 25,000,000 buffalo lived on the Plains.

16.The Sand Creek Massacre took place on November 29，1869 in California.

17.Chief Red Cloud defeated Captain William J. Fetterman in 1866.

18.By1900, there were only 8,425,000 Indians in the United States.

19.The California Gold Rush of 1849 began the

mining boom.

20.By 1880, more than ten million head of cattle had been driven to northern markets.

21.In1879, about six thousand African Americans known as Exodusters left their homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to establish new homes in Oregon.

22.In1867, the Ninth and Tenth Calvary were posted in the West where they remained for two decades.

23.The line of white settlement had reached the edge of the timber country of Missouri by 1840.

24.The winter of 1876 – 1877 was one of the worst in western history.

25.Nearly thirty million immigrants arrived in the 1870s and 1880's: another ten million came between 1890 and 1914.

26.By the start of the Civil War, the United States was the leading industrial nation.

27.Between 1865 and 1914, the real gross national product of the United States grew at an average rate of 12% a year.

28.Between 1790 and 1860, the U.S. parent office issued 1,082,000 patents.

29·On May5, 1892, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met at Littleton, Utah completing the Trans-Continental railroad.

30.Samuel Gompers dominated the American Oil industry.

31.On the railroads, one in every 95 workers was injured and one in every 1,000 killed every year.

32.By the 1890's, The American Federation of Labor organization was the most important labor group in the country.

33.Thomas Edison transmitted the first sentence over the telephone in1876.

34.The WCTU, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, had ten thousand branches and half a million members by 1898.

35.Eastern coal miners, agricultural workers, and garment workers drew the highest salaries in the late nineteenth century.

36.John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Knights of Labor.

37.By the 1890's, the American Federation of Labor

was the most important labor group in the country.

38.Thirty policemen were killed during the Haymarket incident of 1886.

39.Andrew Carnegie was stabbed to death during the Homestead Strike of 1892 at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Plant in 1892.

40.By 1870, one-half of the American people lived

in communities of eight thousand people or more.

41.John Root and Louis H. Sullivan were San Francisco's most important architects.

42.The nation's homicide rate declined in the 1880's.

43.By 1890, about 70% of the U.S. population was foreign born.

44.Beginning in the 1880's, the sources of immigration shifted dramatically away from northern and western Europe.

45.William M. Tweed was the famed leader of the

Tweed Ring of Baltimore, Maryland.

46.Infant mortality doubled between 1877 and 1900.

47.Baseball's first professional team, the Chicago Red Stockings, appeared in1869.

48.In 1877, the United States had 200 million people.

49.The Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1896 established the doctrine of “separate but equal.”

50.Between, 1870 and 1900, illiteracy declined from

90 percent to just over 50 percent of the population.

51.Jane Addams founded Hull House in New York.

52.Between 1880 and 1920, a remarkable total of 50

million immigrants arrived in the country.

53.Ellis Island closed in 1965.

54.In 1903, immigration laws banned the entry of anarchists.

55.The Pendleton Act of 1883 increased the role of patronage in the running of government.

56.The Populist Party ran its first presidential candidate in 1872.

57.William Jennings Bryan was nominated for President by the Democrats and the Populists in 1896.

58.James G. Blaine warned that the search for more overseas markets could lead to American imperialism.

59.Queen Liliuokalani of Midway opposed American efforts to colonize her country.

60.Black soldiers played in major role in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish AmericanWar.

61.In 1898, the American army included fifty regiments of black troops.

62.The death toll in the Philippine-AmericanWar was higher than the death toll in the Spanish-American War.

63.Jane Addams and Mark Twain supported the annexation of the Philippines.

64.Under the Open Door policy, the United States could retain many commercial advantages that were endangered by the partition of China into spheres of influence.

65.Progressivism began in the cities in the 1870's.

66.By 1911, the Women's Christian Temperance Union had nearly a quarter of a million members, the largest organization of women in American history at that time.

67.The NAACP, the National Organization for the Advancement of Colored People, the first black-sponsored social service agency in the nation, was founded in 1882.

68.Jane Addams established the Niagara Movement.

69.By 1904, large corporations of one form or another controlled nearly two-fifths of the capital in U.S. manufacturing.

70.Eugene V. Debs received three million votes as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the election of 1884.

71.Mayor Thomas L. Johnson of Cleveland gained Cleveland a reputation as the country's best-governed city.

72.As early as1900, twenty eight states had laws regulating child labor.

73.Maryland passed the first worker's compensation law in 1902.

74.Wisconsin became the first state to adopt a state income tax.

75.President Roosevelt passed two important bills to regulate the food and drug industries.

76.William McKinley invited Booker T. Washington to the White House.

77.In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt instructed the Justice Department to bring suit against the Northern Securities Company for violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

78.In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt invited both sides in

the railroad workers dispute to the White House.

79.Theodore Roosevelt worked with John Marshall

Harlan, chief of the Forest Service, in establishing national conservation policy.

80.Wilson's record on race disappointed many progressives.

Identification Questions: Be prepared to write short paragraphs about the following topics describing who or what, when, and historical significance.

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

Ku Klux Klan

1876 Election

Buffalo Soldiers

Battle of Little Big Horn

Andrew Carnegie

Knights of Labor

American Federation of Labor

The Homestead Strike

The Pullman Strike

The Haymarket Incident

The Election of 1896

Plessy v. Ferguson

William McKinley

The Spanish-American War

Jane Addams

Theodore Roosevelt