Week 1 Quiz

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

B  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

C  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

D  hostility towards the freedmen

A  high land prices

B  overproduction

C  high taxes

D  excessive government regulation

A  textiles

B  steel

C  meatpacking

D  railroads

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  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

D  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

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  immigration from Europe

B  migration from America’s rural areas

C  the high birthrate of the urban population

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

A  government intervention

B  order

C  opportunity

D  competition

A  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

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

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

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

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

D  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

A  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

B  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

C  letting government solve economic and social problems

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

A  a process of natural selection

B  free competition

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  God’s blessing

A  Federal aid for southern railroads

B  removal of federal troops from the South

C  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

D  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

A  build up the Republican Party in the South

B  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

C  open economic opportunities to blacks

D  put blacks in an economically dependent position

A  Mississippi

B  Virginia

C  South Carolina

D  Maryland

A  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

B  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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  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  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

B  due process clause of the Constitution

C  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

D  The Emancipation Proclamation

A  religious liberty

B  citizenship

C  the right to vote

D  land ownership

A  land

B  schools

C  training in industrial crafts

D  economic independence

A  necessary and proper

B  Three-Fifths

C  elastic

D  Two-Thirds