Week 1 Quiz

A  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

B  hostility towards the freedmen

C  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

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

A  high taxes

B  overproduction

C  high land prices

D  excessive government regulation

A  steel

B  meatpacking

C  textiles

D  railroads

A  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

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

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

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  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  government intervention

B  opportunity

C  competition

D  order

A  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

B  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

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  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

A  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

B  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

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

D  letting government solve economic and social problems

A  a process of natural selection

B  being in the right place at the right time

C  God’s blessing

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  Virginia

B  South Carolina

C  Maryland

D  Mississippi

A  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

C  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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

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

B  corrupt and inefficient

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  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  land ownership

B  religious liberty

C  citizenship

D  the right to vote

A  economic independence

B  training in industrial crafts

C  schools

D  land

A  Three-Fifths

B  Two-Thirds

C  necessary and proper

D  elastic