HIST 1493 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
You will need: 1 100-question Scan-tron sheet
1 blue book
2 sharpened #2 pencils to fill in Scan-trons
ink pen for essays
The test covers:
Chapters 16-19, Norton / Chapters I-III, Oates / Lectures
NOTE: You are responsible for all material in the textbooks & lectures. You are still
held accountable for material in the textbooks even if it was was not covered in the
lectures!
Study the following:
1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reservation System
Reconstruction Allotment System & Dawes Severalty Act
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan of 1887
The Wade-Davis Act Riparian & Prior Appropriation Water
Presidential Reconstruction Systems
Congressional / Radical Reconstruction Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902
Radical Republicans Western farming & ranching
Freedman's Bureau Cattle industry
The Compromise of 1877 open range
13 th , 14 th , & 15 th Amendments Pullman Strike of 1894
Civil Rights Act of 1866 National Labor Union
1866 Race Riots in Memphis & New Knights of Labor
Orleans American Federation of Labor
“Swing Around The Circle” Industrial Workers of the World
Andrew Johnson vertical integration
Tenure of Office Act horizontal integration
Sharecroppers & Sharecropping Andrew Carnegie
Crop Lien system John D Rockefeller
Black Codes European immigrants
carpetbaggers & scalawags Cornelius Vanderbilt
Depression of 1873 US Steel
Liberal Republicans middle-class attitudes toward organized
Crédit Mobilier labor
US Grant Social Darwinists
Great Plains Indians Lifestyle Jane Addams & Hull House
Western Railroads farmers vs. the railroads
Containment of Indians Ghost Dancers
Possible Essay Questions (three of these will show up on the test):
1. Compare and contrast Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction, Presidential
Reconstruction, and Radical Reconstruction.
2. Discuss the economic and social pros & cons of the sharecropping system for
both the sharecroppers and the landowners.
3. Discuss the western expansion of the railroads and government involvement.
4. Compare and contrast the National Labor Union, The Knights of Labor, The
American Federation of Labor, and the Industrial Workers of the World.
5. What were the causes of urbanization during the period 1865-1910? What
consequences did this urban revolution have on politics, the economy, and
society?