Week 1 Quiz

A  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

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

C  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

D  hostility towards the freedmen

A  high taxes

B  high land prices

C  overproduction

D  excessive government regulation

A  steel

B  textiles

C  meatpacking

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  organizing skilled and minority workers

B  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

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 from America’s rural areas

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

C  immigration from Europe

D  the high birthrate of the urban population

A  government intervention

B  order

C  competition

D  opportunity

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  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

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

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

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

B  letting government solve economic and social problems

C  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

D  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

A  being in the right place at the right time

B  God’s blessing

C  a process of natural selection

D  free competition

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  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

C  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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

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  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  corrupt and inefficient

A  due process clause of the Constitution

B  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

C  The Emancipation Proclamation

D  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

A  land ownership

B  religious liberty

C  the right to vote

D  citizenship

A  land

B  schools

C  economic independence

D  training in industrial crafts

A  elastic

B  necessary and proper

C  Three-Fifths

D  Two-Thirds