Exam 1 History

Abraham Lincoln played a role in which phase of Reconstruction?

Wartime Reconstruction

Which of the following statements is correct regarding the fiscal situation of the state governments in the South?

Wealthy planters became increasingly unhappy with Reconstruction governments as their tax burdens increased

Andrew Johnson's attitude toward African Americans and Reconstruction is best described by which of the following statements?

While he resented the power of the southern planter class, he grudgingly helped them regain their privileged status

Which statement best describes the results of Reconstruction?

While the immediate results were not as positive as African Americans had hoped, the amendments and legislation enacted proved vital in future efforts to secure civil rights

Opposition to monopolies came from

All these answers are correct.

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the importance and significance of black churches?

Black ministers were careful to avoid political speech in the pulpit and upheld the principle of the separation of church and state

Which statement is true of schools and education in the black communities?

Black schoolchildren in the South had to hide their schoolbooks and be careful of the routes they walked to school due to harassment and assaults by whites

The largest construction project on American soil by 1870 was the

Brooklyn Bridge.

House Republicans attempted pass a voters' rights bill to protect black voters in the South, but it was defeated in the Senate by

Democrats and western Republicans.

The club name "Boys in Blue" was intended to remind voters that

Democrats were closely associated with the Confederacy.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the impact of the Ku Klux Klan?

Despite vigorous efforts by the federal government to suppress the Klan, its message of white supremacy took hold throughout much of the South

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the presidential election of 1876?

It resulted in the Compromise of 1877, which effectively put an end to Reconstruction

Farmers' Alliances intended to

None of these answers is correct.

Which of the following groups bitterly opposed Lincoln's Reconstruction plans?

Radical Republicans

The American ranching frontier originated in

Texas and west Louisiana.

The new state constitutions enacted in the South can best be described by which of the following statements?

The new southern constitutions were more democratic and egalitarian than anything Americans anywhere had known previously

Which of the following was NOT among the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

The president was required to relinquish power over Reconstruction and the military to Congress

Which of the following is true of African American women in the South during Reconstruction?

They relied on the courts and legal system to protect them from domestic violence

The Haymarket Affair led to

a new nativist movement.

The Fourteenth Amendment

allowed Congress to penalize states by reducing their representation in Congress if a state disenfranchised any male citizens

The riot that broke out on the streets of New York City in 1871 involved

an Irish Protestant parade.

Sisters Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Beecher produced a best-selling guide on

being a good homemaker.

As a result of the effects of the transcontinental railroad and development of the West, the East experienced a

burst of industrial growth.

President Cleveland's solution to the receding gold supply was successful

but his public image was damaged by the association with a "robber baron."

How did women often justify their incursion into the traditionally male sphere of politics?

by explaining that government had a direct impact on the female domain of the home

Southern Democrats referred to white northerners who were a part of the southern Republican coalition as

carpetbaggers

The Maverick Law of 1884 benefitted

cattle barons by restricting small ranchers' opportunities to obtain wild cattle.

Indian policy of the U.S. during most of the 1870s consisted of

clearing the southern plains by shooting any Indians in sight.

During the Civil war, as a precaution against Confederate expansion to the West, the Republican Congress moved to

designate remaining western lands as federal territories

Which of the following caused white supremacy to gain momentum?

desperate economic times

The role of the political machine was generally to

dispense jobs and food to the urban poor in exchange for votes.

Alexander T. Stewart's Iron Palace was a

dry goods store.

Which of the following was NOT one of the Ocala Demands made by farmers in 1890?

eliminate state subtreasuries

The single most important force in the conquest, settlement, and ultimate incorporation of the West was the

federal government.

Which of the following was NOT a reform project endeavor of the Women's Christian Temperance Union?

federal voting rights

In the election of 1896, the Democrats co-opted the Populist votes with their stance on

free silver.

Tens of thousands of ex-slaves died during the war

from an outbreak of smallpox

Coxey's Army marched on Washington, demanding

government relief from unemployment.

In November 1864, militia colonel John M. Chivington led his men on a bloody rampage through a Cheyenne camp

in spite of Chief Black Kettle's peaceful intentions

Which of the following was NOT one of the themes presented in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?

injustice for Native Americans.

Indian chiefs opposed the Dawes Act on the grounds that

it attacked the tribal foundations of their society.

After the election of 1884, the term "Mugwump" came to refer to

one who had broken the rule of party loyalty in voting.

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

laid the groundwork for federal regulation of the railroad industry.

In his book Progress and Poverty, Henry George charged that

land policy and corruption had deprived many of the California dream.

Biomes are

large geographic areas with similar or unique soils, plants, animals, and climate.

A collection of statutes that became known as the Jim Crow laws

legalized segregation.

As part of the religious revival after the implementation of the Dawes Act, medicine man Wovoka preached that Native Americans should

live in peace and prayerfulness

During the recession of the 1870s, the union movement

lost most of its members.

George Pullman's company built

luxury rail cars.

In the 1870s and 1880s urban society was dramatically transformed, as middle-class America began to be identified with

mass consumption.

Which of the following best characterizes the outlook of skilled workers in the early 1870s?

not very optimistic, as machinery rendered their skills obsolete

Safety laws and design improvements in urban housing were

often ignored by landowners and not observed by tenants

Incorporation allowed a business to do all of the following EXCEPT

place personal liability for corporate debts on the owners.

In Texas, the Farmers' Alliance

provided cooperative storage facilities for small-scale farmers.

The railroad companies, which became the country's first large-scale businesses,

provided employment for thousands of people.

The Black Codes were laws enacted in most southern states that were intended to

put restrictions on freedpeople and keep them in a disadvantaged status

Standardized time zones were first adopted by

railroad corporations.

Racial segregation and prejudice in the South

resulted in white state and county officials refusing to carry out directives from higher-ranking black officials

Which of the following was NOT generally part of the system of mass production?

skilled labor

The Civil Service Act of 1883 required, for some positions, federal job seekers to

take a competitive examination.

Most city dwellers lived in working-class buildings known as

tenements.

Which of the following was NOT one of the accusations made against Populists that contributed to their demise?

that they were pro-Jewish

The Great Chicago Fire became the object of anxious discussions about

the "dangerous classes."

Anti-Chinese rhetoric escalated in the 1870s, primarily due to

the Long Depression of 1873.

President Cleveland blamed the depression on

the Sherman Silver Act.

Which of the following was a direct result of the federal surveys of the West?

the development of private mining

In the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court ruled that cities and states had

the legal right to segregate public amenities.

Frederick Douglass believed the supreme symbol of freedom for African Americans was

the right to vote

In their 1872 novel, which group was satirized by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner?

the wealthy

Most missionaries that reached out to Native Americans held the view that

their cultures were inferior.

President Lincoln's veto of the Wade-Davis Bill

turned moderate Republicans against him

In the 1860s, for the first time, Congress specified that the principle objective of western expeditions was to

understand the West's geology.

The Sand Creek Massacre had the effect of

uniting the Plains Indians in distrust of the U.S. government

In his frontier thesis, historian Frederick Jackson Turner emphasized the

untamed West

The beneficiaries of America's first federal welfare system were

veterans.

The thousands of cowboys that drove cattle across the plains were generally compensated through

wages

Generally the practice of tramping

was overlooked by railroad companies.

By 1900 manufactured food

was steadily rising in its consumption by Americans.

The American Woman Suffrage Association lobbied chiefly for

women's suffrage on the state level.

Department stores enhanced the public role of

women.