Week 1 Quiz

A  hostility towards the freedmen

B  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

C  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

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

A  high land prices

B  high taxes

C  excessive government regulation

D  overproduction

A  meatpacking

B  textiles

C  steel

D  railroads

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 utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

B  organizing skilled and minority workers

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  immigration from Europe

B  the high birthrate of the urban population

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  opportunity

B  competition

C  order

D  government intervention

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

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

C  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

D  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

B  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

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

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  being in the right place at the right time

B  free competition

C  God’s blessing

D  a process of natural selection

A  removal of federal troops from the South

B  Federal aid for southern railroads

C  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

D  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

A  put blacks in an economically dependent position

B  open economic opportunities to blacks

C  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

D  build up the Republican Party in the South

A  Mississippi

B  South Carolina

C  Maryland

D  Virginia

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

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

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  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

B  due process clause of the Constitution

C  The Emancipation Proclamation

D  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

A  religious liberty

B  land ownership

C  citizenship

D  the right to vote

A  schools

B  training in industrial crafts

C  economic independence

D  land

A  Three-Fifths

B  Two-Thirds

C  necessary and proper

D  elastic