history quiz #4
Which of the following is NOT true of Abraham Lincoln's slavery policy during the first two years of the war?
He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.
Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE?
It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform.
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Civil War?
It greatly expanded the powers of the presidency and reduced the influence of Congress.
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
The Oregon Territory was created.
Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?
The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.
Which statement about the theory of Social Darwinism is FALSE?
The theory argued that the "deserving poor" only included children.
Which statement about the Spanish-American War is TRUE?
The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties.
Which of the following is TRUE of the New York City riots of 1863?
They were mostly the doing of Irish immigrants.
Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was TRUE in California in the 1850s?
Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves.
For workers, the second industrial revolution meant all of the following EXCEPT:
a decrease in child labor.
The southern Black Codes:
allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
In regards to public education in the South during Reconstruction
blacks had a desire to learn so they could enter politics.
Massive hunting of what animal hurt the Plains Indians?
buffalo
During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" referred to:
camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers?
capitolism
The U.S. Sanitary Commission:
coordinated war donations on the northern home front.
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
Anything less than _____ would betray the Civil War's meaning, black spokesmen insisted.
full citizenship
Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was:
its large size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer.
The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans' aims was:
land reforms
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
middle-class reformers
Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:
muckrackers
The Dawes Act of 1887:
sought to break up the tribal system.
The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:
stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:
supported the conservation movement
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:
the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it
In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:
ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace.
By 1890, the majority of Americans:
worked for wages
