FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH 6.2

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH 6.2

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Question 1: Populist Party forms 1892

Answer:

met in Omaha, Nebraska, on the Omaha Platform, which basically added on to the Ocala Platform; in the South, Thomas Watson of Georgia tried to unite poor blacks and whites

Question 2: Oregon Trail

Answer:

In the 1840's a flood of pioneers came to Oregon on a trail blazed by Jedediah Smith(1841-1869). Cholera spread rampant, a 2k mile journey w/ up to 17 deaths/mile. By 1846, 5K lived south of Columbia River

Question 3: Examples of Mechanization of Agriculture

Answer:

McCormick Reaper Combine Harvester

Question 4: Ocala Platform 1890

Answer:

In 1890, several farmers' alliances met in Ocala, FL to discuss a few common political initiatives: Direct election of US senators, A gradual income tax (higher incomes, higher tax), free coinage of silver to create inflation and raise crop prices.

Question 5: The Grange Collective founded 1867

Answer:

to support social and economic needs of small farmers suffering high railroad transportation rates and manufactured good prices

Question 6: Pacific Railroad Act 1862

Answer:

subsidized the construction of the first transcontinental railroad and split the job between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies

Question 7: California Gold Rush 1848

Answer:

attracted many Chinese, EUropean, Latin American immigrants; created boomtowns overnight, which disappeared once minerals did

Question 8: Homestead Act 1862

Answer:

160 acres free land in the West if it was farmed and settled for 5 years

Question 9: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Answer:

suspending immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years (although it would be extended and not ended until 1943)

Question 10: Peak's Pike/Colorado Gold Rush 1869

Answer:

the mountain Pikes Peak gold strike led up to 100K people into Kansas and Nebraska territories

Question 11: First Transcontinental Railroad completed, May 10, 1869

Answer:

@Promontory Point, Utah, where a golden spike was driven into the rail tie-UP was led by Gen.Grenville Dodge w/ Irish immigrants; CP was led by Charles Crocker, w/ Chinese immigrants

Question 12: Interstate Commerce Act 1887

Answer:

required "reasonable and just" railroad rates, and set up the Interstate Commerce Commission, which lacked teeth and was severely underfunded