Week 1 Quiz

A  hostility towards the freedmen

B  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

C  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

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

A  overproduction

B  excessive government regulation

C  high land prices

D  high taxes

A  railroads

B  meatpacking

C  textiles

D  steel

A  resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor

B  discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States

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

D  aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights 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  migration of African-Americans out of the deep South in the years following the Civil War

B  immigration from Europe

C  migration from America’s rural areas

D  the high birthrate of the urban population

A  opportunity

B  government intervention

C  competition

D  order

A  government land grants to railroads were illegal

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

C  the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional

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

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

B  surrounding control over public policy to private interests

C  regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally

D  letting government solve economic and social problems

A  God’s blessing

B  free competition

C  a process of natural selection

D  being in the right place at the right time

A  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

B  Federal aid for southern railroads

C  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

D  removal of federal troops from the South

A  open economic opportunities to blacks

B  put blacks in an economically dependent position

C  build up the Republican Party in the South

D  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

A  Mississippi

B  Virginia

C  South Carolina

D  Maryland

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

B  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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

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

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  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  land ownership

B  citizenship

C  religious liberty

D  the right to vote

A  training in industrial crafts

B  land

C  schools

D  economic independence

A  Two-Thirds

B  necessary and proper

C  elastic

D  Three-Fifths