Week 1 Quiz

A  hostility towards the freedmen

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

C  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

D  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

A  overproduction

B  high land prices

C  high taxes

D  excessive government regulation

A  railroads

B  textiles

C  meatpacking

D  steel

A  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

B  aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights 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 political goals in order to advance the economic interest of its members

B  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

C  organizing skilled and minority workers

D  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

A  the high birthrate of the urban population

B  migration from America’s rural areas

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

D  immigration from Europe

A  order

B  government intervention

C  opportunity

D  competition

A  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

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

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

D  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

A  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

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

C  letting government solve economic and social problems

D  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

A  being in the right place at the right time

B  God’s blessing

C  free competition

D  a process of natural selection

A  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

B  removal of federal troops from the South

C  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

D  Federal aid for southern railroads

A  put blacks in an economically dependent position

B  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

C  build up the Republican Party in the South

D  open economic opportunities to blacks

A  Maryland

B  Virginia

C  South Carolina

D  Mississippi

A  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

B  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

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

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

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

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  The Emancipation Proclamation

B  due process clause of the Constitution

C  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

D  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

A  citizenship

B  the right to vote

C  land ownership

D  religious liberty

A  land

B  training in industrial crafts

C  economic independence

D  schools

A  elastic

B  necessary and proper

C  Three-Fifths

D  Two-Thirds