Week 1 Quiz

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

B  hostility towards the freedmen

C  pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats

D  dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

A  overproduction

B  high land prices

C  excessive government regulation

D  high taxes

A  railroads

B  meatpacking

C  steel

D  textiles

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  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  rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives

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

C  organizing skilled and minority workers

D  economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours

A  immigration from Europe

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

C  the high birthrate of the urban population

D  migration from America’s rural areas

A  government intervention

B  opportunity

C  order

D  competition

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

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

B  an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth

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

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

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  free competition

C  being in the right place at the right time

D  God’s blessing

A  To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875

B  removal of federal troops from the South

C  Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet

D  Federal aid for southern railroads

A  build up the Republican Party in the South

B  put blacks in an economically dependent position

C  restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South

D  open economic opportunities to blacks

A  Mississippi

B  Virginia

C  South Carolina

D  Maryland

A  imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy

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

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

D  redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen

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  worse than the governments that ruled the South prior to Reconstruction, and run by Northerners who had no real interest in the region

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

D  corrupt and inefficient

A  the adoption of the 14th Amendment

B  the ratification of the 13th Amendment

C  The Emancipation Proclamation

D  due process clause of the Constitution

A  land ownership

B  religious liberty

C  citizenship

D  the right to vote

A  schools

B  training in industrial crafts

C  economic independence

D  land

A  necessary and proper

B  elastic

C  Three-Fifths

D  Two-Thirds