American history first quiz

What were the black codes

A list of rules restricting activities like loitering cursing or vagrancy

Which generalization about population growth is supported by the information in this chart?

By 1920, more people lived in cities than in rural areas

How did the southern states attempt to re-create the status quo of the time before the Civil War

By renting prisoners to do manual labor

What was a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Chinese Immigrants were no longer let into the United States

After the civil War many owners of large plantations in the south responded to the loss of in slave labor by

Creating tenant farms and sharecropping

What is "peonage?"

Debt Slavery

Which of the following if any was not a provision of the Congressional plan of reconstruction in acted in early 1867

Declaring that each state must present a plan for distributing farmland and to provide jobs for former enslaved people

The "Compromise of 1877" did which of the following?

Ended federal military support of Republican administrations in the South.

In the years after the Civil War most Freedman former enslaved people ended up working as which of the following

Farmers under a sharecropper system

Which of the following most accurately describes the purpose of the freedmen's bureau

Feed adjust and educate the former enslaved does eating their adjustment to freedom

In his book "How the Other Half Lives", what did Jacob Riis refer to as "the elements God meant to be free, but man deals out with such [stingy] hand?

Fresh air and light

Which statement describes a result of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

Immigration of the United States increased.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did which of the following?

It declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race.

The grandfather clause, established as part of the Black Codes did which of the following?

It denied Black Americans the franchise [the right to vote] in the South.

The refusal of the south to ratify the 14th amendment had which of the following affects

It forces Republicans to abolish the existing southern governments form new governments and extend the vote to Freedmen

Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.

KKK

One of the most common forms of violence was___. Illegal execution of a person by a mob.

Lynching

What was one of the major reasons why many American's supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Many white Americans believed that Chinese Immigrants were taking job opportunities away.

After 1877 racial segregation became widespread in the south primary as a result of the

Passage of Jim Crow laws

"A reputation for political and religious freedom" could be considered an example of an immigration...

Pull Factor

Which faction of the republican party wanted reconstruction to punish the former confederacy disenfranchise large numbers of southern whites and confiscate the property of leading confederates

Radicals

How did the expansion of railroads create a revolution in the economy?

Railroads connected regional markets into one huge national market.

Which of the following was not a feature of Abraham Lincoln's 10% plan

Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among black people who had formally been enslaved

Which material was key to the growth of cities and especially sky-scrapers?

Steel

Which of the following was possible because of the Bessemer Process?

The building of skyscrapers.

From 1865 to 1900, how did the growth of industry affect American society?

The percentage of Americans living in urban (large cities) areas increased.

Which statement is a valid generalization about the experience of African Americans during the early Reconstruction period (1865-1870)?

They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments.

Which of the following is NOT a reason why African Americans fled the south?

They wanted to move their farms and families to the north because of better weather conditions.

The term business monopoly can best be described as..

a company that controls or dominates an industry.

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

deny suffrage rights to African Americans

According to the theory of laissez faire, the economy functions best when the government...

does not interfere in business.

One factor that furthered industrialization in the United States between 1865 and 1900 was the

expansion of the railroads

After the Civil War, one way business leaders tried to eliminate competition was by...

forming monopolies or trusts.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was important because of which of the following reasons?

guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.

The "separate but equal" doctrine established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld the legality of

racial segregation in public facilities

The Thirteenth Amendment established which of the following?

the legal end of slavery in America.

One reason John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan were sometimes called robber barons was because they..

used ruthless business tactics against their competitors.