history 1302 week two assignment

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History 1302

Week Two Assignment

Due February 3, 2011

1. ______________________ __________________ was a sham constructioncompany composed of directors of the Union Pacific Railroad who had milkedthe Union Pacific for exorbitant fees in order to line the pockets of theinsiders who controlled both firms.

2. There is no evidence that ___________________ __________________________________ was every involved in the scandals between 1868-9 but hispoor choice of associates and his gullibility earned him widespread criticism.

3. The prototype of all the terrorist groups was organized in Pulaski,Tennessee, as a social club, with the costumes and secret rituals common tofraternal groups.

4. One of the reasons that the enforcement acts that were passed during theGrant administration failed to be as effective as hoped was due to the strongtradition in the South of states ____________________________ and local_________________________ as well as racial prejudice.

5. President Grant decided not to run in 1876 in part because manyRepublicans were not thrilled with a _____________________-_____________________ President.

6. The Republicans turned to _____________________ ________________________________________ in the 1876 election who had made a name forhimself as a civil service reformer.

7. The Compromise of 1877 was a deal made by a special congressionalcommission on March 2, 1877, to resolve the disputed presidential electionof 1876; Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, who had lost the popular vote, was


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declared the winner in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops fromthe South, marking the end of _____________________.

8. The legacy of Radical Reconstruction included the

_____________________________, _______________________________, and___________________________ amendments.

9. ____________________________ who had nothing to offer the landowner buttheir labor, worked the owners land in return for supplies and a share of thecrop, generally about half.

10. The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of

____________________; people had to devise ways to operate without cash.

11. __________________________ had no incentive to take care of farmland bymanuring or rotating crops because it was not their own.

12. The ______________________ included a rising class of lawyers, merchants,and entrepreneurs who were eager to promote a more diversified economybased upon the industrial development and railroad expansion.

13. The urge to reduce state expenditures created one of the darkest blotson the Bourbon record: ____________________ _____________________.

14. In the 1880s, southern politics remained surprisingly open and______________________, with 64 percent of eligible voters, blacks and whites,participating in elections.

15. The ultimate achievement of the New South promoters and their allies,the Bourbons, was that they reconciled _______________________ withinnovation.


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16. __________________ ____ _____________________ was an African Americanwoman that was instrumental in the formation of the National Association forthe Advancement of Colored People in 1909 and also worked to promotewomens suffrage.

17. Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should first establish an______________________ _____________________ before striving for social equality.

18. ______________________ ________________________ became the architect forthe twentieth-century civil rights movement.

19. During the second half of the nineteenth century, three-quarters of those

that migrated to the western United States were _____________.

20. The collapse of Radical Republican rule in the South led thousands ofAfrican Americans to move to the western United States in the late 1870sand early 1880s. These people are referred to as____________________________.

21. In 1866, Congress passed legislation establishing two colored cavalry

units and dispatched them to the western frontier. These men werenicknamed _____________________ ____________________ by the Indians andmany of these men were Civil War veterans from Louisiana and Kentucky.

22. The 1851 ____________________________ ____________________________________________, in which the chiefs of the Plains tribes agreed toaccept definite tribal borders and allow white emigrants to travel on theirtrails unmolested, worked for a while, with wagon trains passing safelythrough Indian lands and the army building roads and forts without

resistance. Fighting resumed, however, as the emigrants began to encroachupon Indian lands on the plains rather than merely pass through them.

23. Indians out west were persecuted because they were the last______________________ to western expansion.


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24. A generation of Indian wars virtually ended in 1886 with the capture of_________________________, a chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, who had foughtwhite settlers in the Southwest for fifteen years.

25. The demise of the buffalo developed due to overharvesting by white andIndian hunters as well as _____________________ factors.

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