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  excessive government regulation

B  high taxes

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  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

C  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

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

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

B  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

C  organizing skilled and minority workers

D  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

A  the high birthrate of the urban population

B  immigration from Europe

C  migration from America’s rural areas

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

A  competition

B  order

C  government intervention

D  opportunity

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

B  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

C  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

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

D  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

A  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

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

C  letting government solve economic and social problems

D  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

A  God’s blessing

B  being in the right place at the right time

C  a process of natural selection

D  free competition

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  build up the Republican Party in the South

B  open economic opportunities to blacks

C  put blacks in an economically dependent position

D  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

A  South Carolina

B  Virginia

C  Mississippi

D  Maryland

A  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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

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  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  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 Emancipation Proclamation

C  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

D  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

A  land ownership

B  the right to vote

C  citizenship

D  religious liberty

A  economic independence

B  schools

C  training in industrial crafts

D  land

A  elastic

B  Two-Thirds

C  Three-Fifths

D  necessary and proper