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  overproduction

B  excessive government regulation

C  high land prices

D  high taxes

A  meatpacking

B  textiles

C  railroads

D  steel

A  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

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

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

D  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

A  organizing skilled and minority workers

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

C  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

D  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

A  migration from America’s rural areas

B  immigration from Europe

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

D  the high birthrate of the urban population

A  order

B  competition

C  government intervention

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  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  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

A  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

B  letting government solve economic and social problems

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

D  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

A  free competition

B  a process of natural selection

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  God’s blessing

A  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

B  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

C  removal of federal troops from the South

D  Federal aid for southern railroads

A  open economic opportunities to blacks

B  put blacks in an economically dependent position

C  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

D  build up the Republican Party in the South

A  Maryland

B  South Carolina

C  Mississippi

D  Virginia

A  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

B  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

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

A  corrupt and inefficient

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  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 adoption of the 14th Amendment

B  due process clause of the Constitution

C  The Emancipation Proclamation

D  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

A  religious liberty

B  the right to vote

C  citizenship

D  land ownership

A  schools

B  economic independence

C  training in industrial crafts

D  land

A  necessary and proper

B  Two-Thirds

C  elastic

D  Three-Fifths