Week 1 Quiz

A  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

B  hostility towards the freedmen

C  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

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

A  high taxes

B  high land prices

C  excessive government regulation

D  overproduction

A  textiles

B  railroads

C  meatpacking

D  steel

A  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

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

C  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

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

A  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

B  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

C  organizing skilled and minority workers

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  immigration from Europe

C  migration from America’s rural areas

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  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

C  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

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

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

C  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

A  letting government solve economic and social problems

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

C  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

D  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

A  a process of natural selection

B  free competition

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  God’s blessing

A  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

B  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

C  Federal aid for southern railroads

D  removal of federal troops from the South

A  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

B  build up the Republican Party in the South

C  open economic opportunities to blacks

D  put blacks in an economically dependent position

A  Maryland

B  Virginia

C  Mississippi

D  South Carolina

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

D  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

B  corrupt and inefficient

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

A  The Emancipation Proclamation

B  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

C  due process clause of the Constitution

D  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

A  citizenship

B  religious liberty

C  land ownership

D  the right to vote

A  schools

B  economic independence

C  land

D  training in industrial crafts

A  Three-Fifths

B  necessary and proper

C  elastic

D  Two-Thirds