Test #3 Multiple Choice Q&A Ch. 14, 15, 17, 18, 20

Farmers valued access to railroads, but they also feared them because

railroads controlled their profits through the rates the railroads charged for transporting the farmers' crops.

The Union's national draft law

resulted in murderous attacks in New York City against free blacks.

During Reconstruction, income for southerners

rose for blacks and declined for whites

By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from

southern and eastern Europe

The Crittenden Compromise found its greatest support

southern senators

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.

Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?

80-90 percent

The first state to secede from the Union in 1860 was

South Carolina

President Abraham Lincoln believed the main objective of the Union armies was

destroy Confederate armies.

The best characterization of the muckrakers of the early twentieth century would be

They were leading critics of urban boss politics

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was

intended to offer spiritual, not material, assistance to the poor.

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

designed to give legal control over freedmen.

On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter surrendered after

Confederate forces bombed it.

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

Radicals sought a range of punishments for white southerners.

The Confederate States of America was formed

before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated president.

The presidents of the Gilded Age did little about the rise of great corporations like Standard Oil because they

believed the federal government should not interfere with business.

The Wade-Davis Bill

called for the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.

The Fourteenth Amendment

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States

During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,

he desired to win for government the power to investigate corporations and publicize the results .

Theodore Roosevelt did not run for another term as president in 1908 because

in 1904 he had promised not to run again.

Int he Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln declared freedom for slaves

in the Confederacy.

Taxes enacted by the U.S. Congress to help finance the Civil War

included, for the first time, an income tax.

Most Progressives DID NOT seek out

legislative creation of a socialist commonwealth

President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent" plan for the South referred to the

number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

The public's response to Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" helped bring about

the Pure Food and Drug Act

The business structure of Standard Oil is a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

violated the Tenure of Office Act

In 1864, General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"

was designed to demoralize southerners.

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.

The Tenure of Office Act

was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.

In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft

was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism