Week 1 Quiz

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

B  hostility towards the freedmen

C  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

D  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

A  high land prices

B  overproduction

C  excessive government regulation

D  high taxes

A  railroads

B  meatpacking

C  textiles

D  steel

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

B  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

C  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

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

A  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

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

C  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

D  organizing skilled and minority workers

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

B  migration from America’s rural areas

C  immigration from Europe

D  the high birthrate of the urban population

A  government intervention

B  competition

C  opportunity

D  order

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

B  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

C  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

A  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

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

B  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

C  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

D  letting government solve economic and social problems

A  God’s blessing

B  free competition

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  a process of natural selection

A  removal of federal troops from the South

B  Federal aid for southern railroads

C  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

D  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

A  put blacks in an economically dependent position

B  build up the Republican Party in the South

C  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

D  open economic opportunities to blacks

A  Mississippi

B  Maryland

C  Virginia

D  South Carolina

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

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

C  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

D  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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  corrupt and inefficient

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

A  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

B  The Emancipation Proclamation

C  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

D  due process clause of the Constitution

A  citizenship

B  land ownership

C  religious liberty

D  the right to vote

A  land

B  economic independence

C  training in industrial crafts

D  schools

A  Two-Thirds

B  necessary and proper

C  Three-Fifths

D  elastic