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