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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
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
Question #2
A overproduction
B high taxes
C high land prices
D excessive government regulation
Question #3
A steel
B textiles
C meatpacking
D railroads
Question #4
A resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor
B discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States
C aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights of Labor
D opened the way for the peaceful settlement of labor disputes by collective bargaining
Question #5
A organizing skilled and minority workers
B rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives
C rejecting political goals in order to advance the economic interest of its members
D economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours
Question #6
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
Question #7
A competition
B order
C government intervention
D opportunity
Question #8
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 corporations were entitled to the protection of the 14th Amendment
D the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional
Question #9
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
Question #10
A regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally
B letting government solve economic and social problems
C socializing the major industries that made up the largest segment of the American economy
D surrounding control over public policy to private interests
Question #11
A God’s blessing
B being in the right place at the right time
C a process of natural selection
D free competition
Question #12
A Federal aid for southern railroads
B removal of federal troops from the South
C Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet
D To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875
Question #13
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
Question #14
A Virginia
B South Carolina
C Mississippi
D Maryland
Question #15
A refused to appropriate money for the continued presence of Union troops in the South
B redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen
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
Question #16
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
Question #17
A the ratification of the 13th Amendment
B the adoption of the 14th Amendment
C The Emancipation Proclamation
D due process clause of the Constitution
Question #18
A religious liberty
B land ownership
C the right to vote
D citizenship
Question #19
A training in industrial crafts
B economic independence
C land
D schools
Question #20
A Three-Fifths
B Two-Thirds
C elastic
D necessary and proper