Week 1 Quiz

A  hostility towards the freedmen

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

C  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

D  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

A  excessive government regulation

B  high land prices

C  high taxes

D  overproduction

A  steel

B  meatpacking

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  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

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

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

B  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

C  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

D  organizing skilled and minority workers

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

B  the high birthrate of the urban population

C  immigration from Europe

D  migration from America’s rural areas

A  competition

B  opportunity

C  order

D  government intervention

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

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

C  government land grants to railroads were illegal

D  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

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

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

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

D  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

B  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

C  letting government solve economic and social problems

D  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

A  God’s blessing

B  being in the right place at the right time

C  free competition

D  a process of natural selection

A  Federal aid for southern railroads

B  removal of federal troops from the South

C  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

D  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

A  build up the Republican Party in the South

B  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

C  open economic opportunities to blacks

D  put blacks in an economically dependent position

A  Virginia

B  Mississippi

C  South Carolina

D  Maryland

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

B  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

C  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

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

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

D  corrupt and inefficient

A  due process clause of the Constitution

B  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

C  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

D  The Emancipation Proclamation

A  the right to vote

B  citizenship

C  land ownership

D  religious liberty

A  training in industrial crafts

B  land

C  economic independence

D  schools

A  Two-Thirds

B  elastic

C  necessary and proper

D  Three-Fifths