HIST 12 EXAM 1 Attempt 1

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Question 27: 1 pts (Q002) The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is "Laissez-faire" "Cooperative commonwealth" "Survival of the fittest in society" "Liberty of contract"

"Cooperative commonwealth"

Question 38: 1 pts (Q013) Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas? 1 million 25 million 11 million 65 million

25 million

Question 19: 1 pts Liberal Republicans in the post-Civil War era formed their own political party in opposition to many of the ideas of Radical Republicans. first nominated Andrew Johnson for president and helped him champion legislation in Congress. x believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded further than ever. were more committed to equal rights for blacks than the Radical Republicans had been.

first nominated Andrew Johnson for president and helped him champion legislation in Congress. not sure

Question 15: 1 pts The U.S. president before Andrew Johnson was _________. Group of answer choices Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams

Abraham Lincoln

Question 21: 1 pts (Q022) In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among Socialists. Italian immigrants. African-Americans. x Irish-Americans

African-Americans.

* Question 341 pts (Q017) Among the following, who was a "captain of industry"? Andrew Carnegie George Custer Henry Dawes Samuel Gompers

Andrew Carnegie not sure

Question 2: 1 pts What two Christian denominations commanded the largest African-American following in the South after the Civil War? Group of answer choices: Baptist and Methodist Lutheran and Amish Episcopalian and Presbyterian Catholic and Protestant

Baptist and Methodist

Question 10: 1 pts Robert Smalls was a black senator who served one unsuccessful term before being replaced by a white senator in 1900. True False

False

Question 14: 1 pts In consequence of the Reconstruction governments across the South, the region became a vibrant and successful hub of dynamic and expansive economic growth, allowing many African-Americans to escape from poverty.

False

Question 17: 1 pts All of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan were black. Group of answer choices

False

Question 18: 1 pts Although Reconstruction brought profound changes, the postwar South was peopled with the same social classes as it always had been.

False

Question 24: 1 pts (Q040) With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

False

Question 5: 1 pts The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights. True False

False

Question 33: 1 pts (Q026) Which of the following can be associated with the decline of the Knights of Labor? Great Railroad Strike Haymarket Square International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Strike Carnegie Steel Strike

Haymarket Square

Question 8: 1 pts Who was the first black senator elected in U.S. history in 1870? Robert Smalls Frederick Douglass Charles Sumner Hiram Revels

Hiram Revels

Question 7: 1 pts What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867? It allowed the Redeemers to reconstruct the South after a lengthy, two-year wait for southern states to apologize for slavery. It divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote. It voided the Supreme Court's recent landmark decision in Brown v. the Board of Education. It barred the president of the United States from removing certain officeholders, including cabinet members, without consent of the Senate.

It divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.

Question 30: 1 pts (Q007) The author of How the Other Half Lives (1890) was

Jacob Riis.

Question 22: 1 pts (Q066) A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.

T

Question 11: 1 pts The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."

True

Question 12: 1 pts The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

True

Question 3: 1 pts During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators. True False

True

Question 4: 1 pts Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the fact that many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law. True False

True

Question 6: 1 pts Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools. True False

True

*Question 36: 1 pts (Q056) Although ethnic diversity is generally associated with eastern cities, in the late nineteenth century the most multicultural state in the Union was Arizona.

True nor sure

* Question 25: 1 pts (Q058) In the late 1800s, farm families in the trans-Mississippi West became less dependent on loans as they were able to purchase land, machinery, and industrial products despite the prices for agricultural goods in the world market.

True not sure

* Question 29: 1 pts (Q055) The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing office-holding from the hands of political machines.

True not sure

* Question 31: 1 pts (Q043) The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.

True not sure

* Question 32: 1 pts (Q068) In setting out to destroy the Indian economy and way of life after the Civil War, U.S. generals decimated the buffalo population.

True not sure

Question 23: 1 pts (Q031) In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from the many groups of industrial workers who united against the social and political injustices in the workplace. a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold but what lies beneath is of little value. the money system, which was deeply entrenched in the gold standard. workers who felt they were trapped in gilded cages and desired to be free.

a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold but what lies beneath is of little value.

Question 37: 1 pts (Q027) Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"? a celebrated form of an Irish folk dance taught by the Catholic church to new immigrants arriving from southern and eastern Europe an Anasazi dance paying tribute to Kokopelli a new form of rain dance that developed due to the forced migration of Indians a pan-Indian movement that involved singing, dancing, and religious observances

a pan-Indian movement that involved singing, dancing, and religious observances

Question 39: 1 pts (Q030) William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a wealthy rancher in the new West. an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians. a self-made millionaire who made his money on stocks and wore cowboy boots in the boardroom. a collector of Indian artifacts, especially those of the dwindling buffalo population.

an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians.

Question 13: 1 pts Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the South saw a leveling off of the price of cotton to prewar levels. experienced high prices for cotton. saw the price of cotton fall steadily. experienced rapidly rising prices.

saw the price of cotton fall steadily.

* Question 28: 1 pts (Q008) This improvement was key in both the division of time zones as well as improving sales in such brands as Ivory soap and Quaker Oats. the installation of telephone poles invention of the television set standard gauge for railroads telegraph lines

standard gauge for railroads not sure

Question 26: 1 pts (Q014) The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in the Southwest. the North and the Midwest. the South. the Midwest and lower South.

the North and the Midwest

Question 20: 1 pts Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that African-Americans should never receive the right to vote, only opportunities to earn wages. the government should minimize its involvement in the economy and allow laissez-faire to flourish in the South. traditions of federalism and states' rights should guide all policy decisions, including those involving race. the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race

the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race

Question 16: 1 pts What were central elements in the lives of postemancipation blacks in the twenty years following the end of the Civil War? the family, the church, the school the boss, the cabin, the library the family, the corporations, the prison the immigrant, the library, the battlefield

the family, the church, the school

Question 9: 1 pts What was one of the central demands of feminists during Reconstruction the widespread availability of the birth control pill the liberalization of divorce laws more job opportunities for children the right to fight in warfare

the liberalization of divorce laws * not sure

Question 35: 1 pts (Q009) Legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director are called monopolies. vertical integration. units. trusts.

trusts

Question 1 The laws and amendments of Reconstruction rejected the idea that citizenship was an entitlement of Group of answer choices: poor people. children under the age of ten. black people. whites alone.

whites alone


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