Final Exam Review Short Answer Questions Only

What are some differences between the north and south 1

Describe the fugitive slave act 2

Why did some states secede? 3

Explain the 14th Amendment 4

Describe three conditions during and after reconstruction that denied “freed peoples” their equal rights. 5

What was the impact of the explosion in new inventions on American business? 6

What was the effect of industrialization on the lives of children? 7

What did it mean to “assimilate” Native Americans? 8

What pulled or pushed people west? 9

Describe general reasons people are “pushed” to move somewhere else and reasons that “pull” people to move somewhere else. 10

What did the Statue of Liberty mean to immigrants? 11

What problems were present in American life during the late 1800s and early 1900? What reforms were created to address these problems? 12

Describe several of the new “freedoms” women enjoyed in the 1920s. 13

Explain why the American government felt it necessary to establish limits on the number of immigrants entering the United States in the 1920s.14

How and why did the United States acquire territory? 15

Why did the United States enter World War I? 16

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