Week 1 Quiz

A  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

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

C  hostility towards the freedmen

D  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

A  high land prices

B  excessive government regulation

C  high taxes

D  overproduction

A  meatpacking

B  textiles

C  steel

D  railroads

A  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

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

C  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

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

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

B  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

C  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

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  migration from America’s rural areas

D  immigration from Europe

A  order

B  opportunity

C  competition

D  government intervention

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

B  government land grants to railroads were illegal

C  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

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

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

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

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

D  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

A  letting government solve economic and social problems

B  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

C  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

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

A  free competition

B  a process of natural selection

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  God’s blessing

A  Federal aid for southern railroads

B  removal of federal troops from the South

C  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

D  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

A  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

B  build up the Republican Party in the South

C  put blacks in an economically dependent position

D  open economic opportunities to blacks

A  Mississippi

B  South Carolina

C  Maryland

D  Virginia

A  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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

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

D  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

A  corrupt and inefficient

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

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

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

A  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

B  due process clause of the Constitution

C  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

D  The Emancipation Proclamation

A  land ownership

B  citizenship

C  religious liberty

D  the right to vote

A  training in industrial crafts

B  land

C  economic independence

D  schools

A  Three-Fifths

B  necessary and proper

C  elastic

D  Two-Thirds