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 taxes

B  excessive government regulation

C  high land prices

D  overproduction

A  steel

B  railroads

C  textiles

D  meatpacking

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

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

C  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

D  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf 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  immigration from Europe

C  the high birthrate of the urban population

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

A  order

B  competition

C  government intervention

D  opportunity

A  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

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  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  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

B  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

C  letting government solve economic and social problems

D  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

A  free competition

B  God’s blessing

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  a process of natural selection

A  Federal aid for southern railroads

B  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

C  removal of federal troops from the South

D  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

A  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

B  open economic opportunities to blacks

C  build up the Republican Party in the South

D  put blacks in an economically dependent position

A  South Carolina

B  Maryland

C  Virginia

D  Mississippi

A  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

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

D  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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

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

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  land ownership

C  citizenship

D  religious liberty

A  land

B  training in industrial crafts

C  schools

D  economic independence

A  necessary and proper

B  elastic

C  Two-Thirds

D  Three-Fifths