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.