US. History Unit 15 questions

Unit 15 Questions

Lesson 71

1.  What does the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit?

2.  What was the Tammany Hall machine or the Tweed Ring?

3.  What were some of the reasons why Democrats regained power in the         South?

Lesson 72

1.  Where did most cattle drives begin and end?

2.  What areas of the country had large percentages of foreign-born immigrants or children of immigrants?

3.  What services grew in the cities to meet the public’s needs?

Lesson 73

1.  Why was a transcontinental railroad promoted?

2.  What two companies built the transcontinental railroad?

3.  What immigrant groups were hired in large numbers by the railroad companies?

Lesson 74

1.  What does it mean to “wave the bloody shirt”?

2.  The electoral votes from what states were questioned in the election?

3.  How was the controversy decided?

Lesson 75

1.  How was American life a mixture of good and bad in the late nineteenth century?

2.  How can the city pull people away from God?

3.  In what ways is American life today better than it was 100 years ago, and in what ways is it not as good?