Week 1 Quiz

A  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

B  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

C  hostility towards the freedmen

D  refusal to take the presidential oath of office unless Congress supported his reconstruction plans

A  high taxes

B  overproduction

C  excessive government regulation

D  high land prices

A  meatpacking

B  steel

C  railroads

D  textiles

A  aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights of Labor

B  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

C  opened the way for the peaceful settlement of labor disputes by collective bargaining

D  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

A  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

B  organizing skilled and minority workers

C  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

D  rejecting political goals in order to advance the economic interest of its members

A  migration of African-Americans out of the deep South in the years following the Civil War

B  migration from America’s rural areas

C  the high birthrate of the urban population

D  immigration from Europe

A  opportunity

B  competition

C  order

D  government intervention

A  corporations were entitled to the protection of the 14th Amendment

B  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

C  government land grants to railroads were illegal

D  the due process clause of the Constitution did not apply to CEO’s of large corporations

A  making reparations for slavery and extending full civil rights to the freedmen

B  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

C  the reestablishment of the pre-Civil War social and economic order

D  adoption of the northern model of industrial growth, coupled with the legend of the graceful Old South

A  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

B  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

C  socializing the major industries that made up the largest segment of the American economy

D  letting government solve economic and social problems

A  being in the right place at the right time

B  a process of natural selection

C  free competition

D  God’s blessing

A  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

B  removal of federal troops from the South

C  Federal aid for southern railroads

D  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

A  put blacks in an economically dependent position

B  build up the Republican Party in the South

C  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

D  open economic opportunities to blacks

A  Maryland

B  Mississippi

C  Virginia

D  South Carolina

A  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

B  insisted that the former slavers be recognized as citizens of the United States

C  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

D  refused to appropriate money for the continued presence of Union troops in the South

A  progressive and beneficial to the South, though run by people who had generally not held power in the South prior to the Civi War

B  worse than the governments that ruled the South prior to Reconstruction, and run by Northerners who had no real interest in the region

C  effective though flawed in that African-Americans were excluded from the Reconstruction governments

D  corrupt and inefficient

A  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

B  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

C  due process clause of the Constitution

D  The Emancipation Proclamation

A  land ownership

B  religious liberty

C  the right to vote

D  citizenship

A  economic independence

B  training in industrial crafts

C  schools

D  land

A  necessary and proper

B  Two-Thirds

C  Three-Fifths

D  elastic