History 1493 - Give Me Liberty!

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was

William M. Tweed

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

false

The West was a remarkably homogeneous region--only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.

false

There were cases of freed slaves returning to the land they had previously worked demanding that they were "joint heirs" of the estate.

true

The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is

"Cooperative commonwealth"

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.

false

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

false

liberal republicans of the post civil war era:

formed their own political party in opposition to many of the ideas of radical republicans

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 (p. 550-551)

As part of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered federal troops in _________ to return to their barracks and stop guarding state houses.

the south

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.

true

By 1890, the majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.

true

The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of

removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways."

Following the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African-Americans registered to vote.

true

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

The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.

true

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

Which statement accurately describes sharecropping?

It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.

robert smalls was a black senator who served one unsuccessful term before being replaced by a white senator in 1900.

false

By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?

1/3