Week 1 Quiz

A  hostility towards the freedmen

B  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

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

D  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

A  overproduction

B  high taxes

C  high land prices

D  excessive government regulation

A  meatpacking

B  railroads

C  textiles

D  steel

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  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

D  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

A  organizing skilled and minority workers

B  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

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

D  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

A  immigration from Europe

B  the high birthrate of the urban population

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

D  migration from America’s rural areas

A  competition

B  order

C  opportunity

D  government intervention

A  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

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

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

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  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

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  God’s blessing

D  being in the right place at the right time

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  open economic opportunities to blacks

B  build up the Republican Party in the South

C  put blacks in an economically dependent position

D  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

A  Virginia

B  South Carolina

C  Mississippi

D  Maryland

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  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

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  corrupt and inefficient

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

A  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

B  The Emancipation Proclamation

C  due process clause of the Constitution

D  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

A  the right to vote

B  citizenship

C  religious liberty

D  land ownership

A  economic independence

B  land

C  schools

D  training in industrial crafts

A  Two-Thirds

B  necessary and proper

C  elastic

D  Three-Fifths