Ch 15 study guide

Question 11 out of 1 points

In 1868, Ulysses S. GrantAnswer

Selected Answer: entered the White House with no political

experience.

Correct Answer: entered the White House with no political

experience.

Response Feedback:

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All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPTAnswer

Selected Answer: President Ulysses

Grant.

Correct Answer: President Ulysses

Grant.

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Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:

correct

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As sharecroppers, the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

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Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

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In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so becauseAnswer

Selected Answer: they were not fit enough to survive in

the market.

Correct Answer: they were not fit enough to survive in

the market.

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In his books, Horatio AlgerAnswer

Selected Answer: emphasized the value of personal character

in business.

Correct Answer: emphasized the value of personal character

in business.

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Social Darwinism was designed to eliminate competition in the marketplace.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:



A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles wasAnswer

Selected Answer: the moving

assembly line.

Correct Answer: the moving

assembly line.

Response Feedback:



During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped byAnswer

Selected Answer: All these answers are

correct.

Correct Answer: All these answers are

correct.

Response Feedback:



In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?Answer

Selected Answer: ste

el

Correct Answer: ste

el

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In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor ofAnswer

Selected Answer: a single land tax to replace all

other taxes.

Correct Answer: a single land tax to replace all

other taxes.

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In the Homestead strike of 1892, the Pinkertons were brought in on the side of labor.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:



Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

False

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Question 15

1 out of 1 points

All the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPTAnswer

Selected Answer: Atlant

a.

Correct Answer: Atlant

a.

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In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,Answer

Selected Answer: one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all

manufacturing.

Correct Answer: one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all

manufacturing.

Response Feedback:



The Haymarket Square riot of 1886Answer

Selected Answer: resulted in the conviction and execution of

several anarchists.

Correct Answer: resulted in the conviction and execution of

several anarchists.

Response Feedback:



During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United StatesAnswer

Selected Answer: increased

significantly.

Correct Answer: increased

significantly.

Response Feedback:



In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPTAnswer

Selected Answer: the automobile

industry.

Correct Answer: the automobile

industry.

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Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

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Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,Answer

Selected Answer: imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were

combined into one great trust.

Correct Answer: imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were

combined into one great trust.

Response Feedback:

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In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De LeonAnswer

Selected Answer: led the Socialist Labor Party in the

United States.

Correct Answer: led the Socialist Labor Party in the

United States.

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The history of American business organization saw the "pool" replace the "trust."Answer

Selected Answer:

[None Given]

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:



In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporationsAnswer

Selected Answer: led to a diversification of research

interests.

Correct Answer: led to a diversification of research

interests.

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Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:


Question 26

1 out of 1 points

Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



In the 1870s, nearly one out of every eighty miners was killed on the job.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



The western working class was highly multiracial and stratified along racial lines.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



Women in nineteenth-century western mining townsAnswer

Selected Answer: often found work doing

domestic tasks.

Correct Answer: often found work doing

domestic tasks.

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By the end of the nineteenth century, the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:


President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.

Answer

Selected Answer: Tru

e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct

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Question 2

1 out of 1 points

The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.

Answer


e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 3

1 out of 1 points

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking

Answer

Selected Answer:

the crime of lynching.

Correct Answer:

the crime of lynching.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 4

1 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to

Answer

Selected Answer:

southern white Republicans.

Correct Answer:

southern white Republicans.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 5

1 out of 1 points

The "New South creed" was expounded by whites, not blacks.

Answer

Selected Answer: False

Correct Answer: False

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 6

1 out of 1 points

By 1880, more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the United States.

Answer


e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 7

1 out of 1 points

In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from

Answer

Selected Answer:

barbed wire.

Correct Answer:

barbed wire.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 8

0 out of 1 points

Hamlin Garland wrote novels celebrating the hope and spirit of the American West.

Answer

Selected Answer: True


Response Feedback:

incorrect


Question 9

1 out of 1 points

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

Answer

Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.

Correct Answer:


Response Feedback:

correct


Question 10

1 out of 1 points

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Response Feedback:

correct


Question 11

1 out of 1 points

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Answer

Selected Answer:

Pennsylvania.

Correct Answer:

Pennsylvania.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 12

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892?

Answer

Selected Answer:

The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.

Correct Answer:


Response Feedback:

correct


Question 13

1 out of 1 points

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?

Answer

Selected Answer:

James J. Hill

Correct Answer:

James J. Hill

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 14

1 out of 1 points

Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.

Answer



Response Feedback:

correct


Question 15

1 out of 1 points

The Knights of Labor were followed by the American Federation of Labor as the most significant national labor union.

Answer


e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 16

0 out of 1 points

Neither Henry George nor Edward Bellamy was an advocate of revolution.

Answer


Correct Answer: True

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incorrect


Question 17

1 out of 1 points

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Answer

Selected Answer:

Europe.

Correct Answer:

Europe.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 18

1 out of 1 points

The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873.

Answer


e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 19

0 out of 1 points

Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union.

Answer

Selected Answer: True


Response Feedback:

incorrect


Question 20

1 out of 1 points

In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

Answer

Selected Answer:


Correct Answer:


Response Feedback:

correct


Question 21

1 out of 1 points

Social Darwinism was an ideology that had its critics, but it did have a lot to do with the realities of the late nineteenth-century corporate economy.

Answer



Response Feedback:

correct


Question 22

1 out of 1 points

By 1900, some workers had the legal right to compensation for injuries suffered on the job.

Answer


e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 23

1 out of 1 points

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

Answer

Selected Answer:

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

Correct Answer:

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 24

1 out of 1 points

In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.

Answer



Response Feedback:

correct


Question 25

1 out of 1 points

The great railroad strike of 1877

Answer

Selected Answer:

was launched in response to a wage cut.

Correct Answer:

was launched in response to a wage cut.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 26

1 out of 1 points

The Knights of Labor

Answer

Selected Answer:

began as a secret fraternal organization.

Correct Answer:

began as a secret fraternal organization.

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 27

1 out of 1 points

Carnegie Steel was a good example of vertical integration.

Answer


e

Correct Answer: Tru

e

Response Feedback:

correct


Question 28

1 out of 1 points

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

Answerthe moving assembly line.

the moving assembly line.

Question 29

1 out of 1 points

Most of the late nineteenth-century business tycoons began their careers in poverty or lower-class circumstances.

Answer



Response Feedback:

correct



During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired

Answer

Selected Answer:

Alaska.

Correct Answer:

Alaska.

Response Feedback:

correct


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Question 2

1 out of 1 points

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,

Answer

Selected Answer:

Johnson was acquitted by one vote.

Correct Answer:

Johnson was acquitted by one vote.

Response Feedback:

correct


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Question 3

1 out of 1 points

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

Answer

Selected Answer:

designed to give whites control over freedmen.

Correct Answer:

designed to give whites control over freedmen.

Response Feedback:

correct


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Question 4

1 out of 1 points

After the Civil War, most southern black women

Answer

Selected Answer:

engaged in income-producing activities.

Correct Answer:

engaged in income-producing activities.

Response Feedback:

correct


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Question 5

0 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, black family roles soon came to resemble similar roles

within white families.

Answer

Selected Answer: [None Given]


Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 6

1 out of 1 points

Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of

competing oil companies in Ohio?

Answer

Selected Answer:

John D. Rockefeller

Correct Answer:

John D. Rockefeller

Response Feedback:

correct


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Question 7

0 out of 1 points

In 1917, automobile production in the United States

Answer


Correct Answer:

saw nearly five million cars on American roads.

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incorrect


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Question 8

0 out of 1 points

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

Answer


Correct Answer:

American Federation of Labor.

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incorrect


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Question 9

0 out of 1 points

Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner could both be called Social

Darwinists.

Answer



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incorrect


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Question 10

0 out of 1 points

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

Answer


Correct Answer:

cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.

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incorrect


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Question 11

0 out of 1 points

The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 12

0 out of 1 points

The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 13

0 out of 1 points

In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains

for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Answer


Correct Answer:

state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers, which did not exist.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 14

0 out of 1 points

The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

Answer


Correct Answer:

believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.

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incorrect


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Question 15

0 out of 1 points

By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers

Answer


Correct Answer:

None of these answers is correct.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 16

0 out of 1 points

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in

favor of

Answer


Correct Answer:

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 17

0 out of 1 points

The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in

response to the needs of the steel industry.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 18

0 out of 1 points

Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of

1892?

Answer


Correct Answer:


Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 19

0 out of 1 points

Henry Ford built the first gasoline-driven motor vehicle in America.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 20

0 out of 1 points

Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law

Answer


Correct Answer:

put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 21

0 out of 1 points

Social Darwinism was designed to eliminate competition in the marketplace.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 22

0 out of 1 points

In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 23

0 out of 1 points

Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 24

0 out of 1 points

By 1900, factory work in the United States required ever-increasing levels of

skill.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 25

0 out of 1 points

Originally, the American Federation of Labor was not willing to engage in

strikes.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 26

0 out of 1 points

Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 27

0 out of 1 points

The Rocky Mountain School of painting

Answer


Correct Answer:

helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 28

0 out of 1 points

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

Answer


Correct Answer:

referred to Chinese indentured servants.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 29

0 out of 1 points

In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

Answer


Correct Answer:

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.

Response Feedback:

incorrect


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Question 30

0 out of 1 points

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle

industry became increasingly corporate.

Answer



Response Feedback:

incorrect


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1 out of 1 points

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

Answer

Selected Answer:

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

Correct Answer:

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

Response correct

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During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired alaskaAnswer


The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.Answer

false

0 out of 1 points

The Freedmen’s Bureau was a civilian agency under the control of the State Department.Answer

False


In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South decreased for both blacks and whitesAnswer


The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote, but he did not win the presidency. TrueAnswer


The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) thatAnswer

Selected Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had

equal "accommodations."


During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,Answer

Selected Answer:

.

Correct Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by

blacks increased.

1 out of 1 points

The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True


Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln.Answer

false


The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue ofAnswer

Selected Answer: suffrag

e.


Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.Answer

Selected Answer:

True


As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical RepublicansAnswer

Selected Answer:

Correct Answer: proposed abolishing the

Court.

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Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.Answer

True1 out of 1 points

In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit systemAnswer

Selected Answer:

encouraged the planting of cash crops.


The Tenure of Office ActAnswer

Selected Answer: was designed to limit President Andrew

Johnson's authority.


African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.Answer

Selected Answer:

False


As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,Answer

Selected Answer: Radicals sought a range of punishments for white

southerners.


During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred toAnswer

Selected Answer: southern white

Republicans.


Among other ideas, Booker T. WashingtonAnswer

Favored industrial over classical0 out of 1 points


Prez ullyses s grant1 out of 1 points

In 1865, southern blacks defined "freedom" asAnswer


correct.


During Reconstruction, the southern school systemAnswer

Selected Answer: eventually reached 40 percent of all

black children.


The Freedmen's BureauAnswer

Selected Answer: distributed food to millions of

southern blacks.


By the time of his death, Lincoln's sympathies had shifted from essential allegiance to the moderate wing of his party to casting his lot with the Radical Republicans.Answer

Selected Answer:

False



False1 out of 1 points

In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" asAnswer

Selected Answer: controlling their future without northern

interference.


Jim Crow lawsAnswer

Selected Answer: imposed a system of state-supported

segregation.


President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to theAnswer

Selected Answer: number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths

before setting up a state government.


After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by separating themselves from white institutions.Answer

Selected Answer:

True


In the 1860s, Black Codes wereAnswer

Correct Answer: designed to give whites control over

freedmen.

Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. WashingtonAnswer

Selected Answer: called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of

racial segregation.

Correct Answer: called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of

racial segregation.

Response Feedback:



"Scalawags" were southerners who moved north after the Civil War.Answer

Correct Answer:

False

k:


President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:


Question 5

1 out of 1 points

After the Civil War, most poor rural southerners relied on credit fromAnswer

Selected Answer: country

stores.

Correct Answer: country

stores.

Response Feedback:



In late-nineteenth-century southern politics, economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



Black sharecroppingAnswer

Selected Answer: was a very common occupation of

former slaves.

Correct Answer: was a very common occupation of

former slaves.

Response Feedback:

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The Panic of 1873 was the worst the country had faced to that point in its history.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi were among the first states to comply with congressional Reconstruction.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:



Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871Answer

Selected Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks

in the South.

Correct Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks

in the South.

Response Feedback:

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At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,Answer

Selected Answer: Johnson was acquitted by

one vote.

Correct Answer: Johnson was acquitted by

one vote.

Response Feedback:



In the 1860s, Black Codes wereAnswer

Selected Answer: designed to give whites control over

freedmen.

Correct Answer: designed to give whites control over

freedmen.

Response Feedback:



At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage wasAnswer

Correct Answer: almost 4

million.




e.

Correct Answer: suffrag

e.

Response Feedback:




Selected Answer: President Ulysses

Grant.

Correct Answer: President Ulysses

Grant.

Response Feedback:



During Reconstruction, the black labor force workedAnswer

Selected Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case

during slavery.

Correct Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case

during slavery.

Response Feedback:

correct






Correct Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had


Response Feedback:



President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to theAnswer

Selected Answer: number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths


Correct Answer: number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths


Response Feedback:



The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in a resounding victory for the Republicans.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Tru

Answer: e

Response Feedback:



In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because heAnswer


correct.


correct.

Response Feedback:




Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:




Selected Answer:

False

Correct Fals

Answer: e

Response Feedback:



Advocates of the "New South"Answer

Selected Answer: promoted southern industry and railroad

development.

Correct Answer: promoted southern industry and railroad

development.

Response Feedback:



During the Johnson administration, the United States acquiredAnswer

Selected Answer: Alask

a.

Correct Answer: Alask

a.

Response Feedback:




Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

False


The most numerous Republicans in the South were the black freedmen.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True


During Reconstruction, though the black share of profits were rising, the total profits of southern agriculture were declining.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True


During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agricultureAnswer

Selected Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the

tenant system.

Correct Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the

tenant system.


In the South during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,Answer

Correct Answer: textile manufacturing increased ninefold.

\


In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from

Answer


correct.


In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attackingAnswer

Selected Answer: the crime of

lynching.

Correct Answer: the crime of

lynching.

Response Feedback:



Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective ifAnswer

Selected Answer: the federal government had better enforced the laws

designed to assist blacks.

Correct Answer: the federal government had better enforced the laws

designed to assist blacks.

Response Feedback:



The assassination of President Abraham LincolnAnswer

Selected Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the

administration.

Correct Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the

administration.

Response Feedback:



In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham LincolnAnswer

Selected Answer: insisted that the Confederacy had no legal

right to exist.

Correct Answer: insisted that the Confederacy had no legal

right to exist.

Response Feedback:



As president, Andrew JohnsonAnswer

Selected Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty

to the United States.

Correct Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty


Response Feedback:



In 1868, Ulysses S. GrantAnswer

Selected Answer: entered the White House with no political

experience.

Correct Answer: entered the White House with no political

experience.

Response Feedback:




Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



After the Civil War, most poor rural southerners relied on credit fromAnswer

Selected Answer: country

stores.

Correct Answer: country

stores.

Response Feedback:



During Reconstruction, fedeemed" governments of theeAnswer

Selected Answer: northern white veterans who moved to

the South.

Correct Answer: northern white veterans who moved to

the South.

Response Feedback:



Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.Answer

Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:



The Fourteenth AmendmentAnswer

Selected Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the

United States.

Correct Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the

United States.

Response Feedback:



During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agricultureAnswer

Selected Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the

tenant system.

Correct Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the

tenant system.

Response Feedback:





interference.

Correct Answer: controlling their future without northern

interference.

Response Feedback:



After the Civil War, most southern black womenAnswer

Selected Answer: engaged in income-producing

activities.


National support for Reconstruction was undermined byAnswer

Selected

Answer: All these answers are correct.








e.


Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.Answer

Selected Answer:

False



Selected Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by

blacks increased.


The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.Answer

Selected Answer:

True



Selected Answer:

True

Correct Answer:

True

Response Feedback:



"Scalawags" were southerners who moved north after the Civil War.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Answer:

False

Response Feedback:



During Reconstruction, southern African American officeholdersAnswer

Selected Answer: underrepresented the total number of blacks

living in the South.


In most parts of the South, the "Redeemer" government constituted a genuinely new ruling class.Answer

Selected Answer:

True


During Reconstruction, the black labor force workedAnswer

Selected Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case

during slavery.

Correct Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case

during slavery.


The "redeemed" governments of the SouthAnswer

Selected Answer: saw an end to occupation by

federal troops.


In the South during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,Answer

Selected Answer: textile manufacturing increased

ninefold.




correct.


African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.Answer

Selected Answer:

False


In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. WashingtonAnswer

Selected Answer: called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of

racial segregation.

uestion 11 out of 1 points

The assassination of President Abraham LincolnAnswer

Selected Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the

administration.

Correct Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the

administration.

Response Feedback:



During the Johnson administration, the United States acquiredAnswer

Selected Answer: Alask

a.

Correct Answer: Alask

a.

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True

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During Reconstruction, per capita income for southernersAnswer

Selected Answer: rose for blacks and declined

for whites.

Correct Answer: rose for blacks and declined

for whites.

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In most parts of the South, the "Redeemer" government constituted a genuinely new ruling class.Answer

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True

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True

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Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.Answer

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True

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correct.


correct.

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Jim Crow lawsAnswer

Selected Answer: imposed a system of state-supported

segregation.

Correct Answer: imposed a system of state-supported

segregation.

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National support for Reconstruction was undermined byAnswer


correct.


correct.

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e.

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e.

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Selected Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by

blacks increased.

Correct Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by

blacks increased.

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Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.Answer

Selected Answer:

False

Correct Fals

Answer: e

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As president, Andrew JohnsonAnswer

Selected Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty


Correct Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty


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During Reconstruction, southern African American officeholdersAnswer

Selected Answer: underrepresented the total number of blacks


Correct Answer: underrepresented the total number of blacks


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The Fourteenth AmendmentAnswer

Selected Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the

United States.

Correct Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the

United States.

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Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871Answer

Selected Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks

in the South.

Correct Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks

in the South.

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The elections of 1876 sawAnswer

Selected Answer: the candidate with the most popular votes fail

to get elected.

Correct Answer: the candidate with the most popular votes fail

to get elected.

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In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit systemAnswer

Selected Answer: encouraged the planting of

cash crops.

Correct Answer: encouraged the planting of

cash crops.

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State expenditures by southern governments during Reconstruction were large, but only in comparison with the meager state budgets of the pre-Civil War years.Answer

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True

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True

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During Reconstruction, the southern school systemAnswer

Selected Answer: eventually reached 40 percent of all

black children.

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black children.

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President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.Answer

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True

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During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred toAnswer

Selected Answer: southern white

Republicans.

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Republicans.

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False

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False

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At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,Answer

Selected Answer: Johnson was acquitted by

one vote.

Correct Answer: Johnson was acquitted by

one vote.

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Correct Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had


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interference.

Correct Answer: controlling their future without northern

interference.

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After the Civil War, most southern black womenAnswer

Selected Answer: engaged in income-producing

activities.

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activities.

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True

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True

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Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.Answer

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True

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True

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In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came fromAnswer


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. In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.)

2. Who among the following did NOT make significant contributions to communication technology?... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Charles F. Brush)

3. Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was saw little development.)

4. The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was both A and B)

5. The open-hearth process of making steel... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was made the production of large dimension pieces possible.)

6. In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in)

7. All of the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Atlanta.)

8. In the late nineteenth century, the transportation needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the development of all of the following EXCEPT... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was the automobile company.)

9. The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Pennsylvania.)

10. In the 1870s, the “internal combustion engine” was developed in... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Europe.)

11. In 1917, automobile production in the United States... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was saw five million cars on American roads.)

12. Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful airplane flight in 1903... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was A and B)

13. In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was led to a diversification of research interests.)

14. Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was James J. Hill)

15. A key to Henry Ford’s success in mass production of automobiles was to... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was use interchangeable parts.)

16. In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was $290.)

17. In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was included the nation’s largest businesses.)

18. During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by... INCORRECT


19. The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was vertical integration)

20. The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of... INCORRECT


21. To John D. Rockefeller, the great “curse” of business in the late nineteenth century was... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was cutthroat competition.)

22. In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.)

23. In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was began their careers from positions of wealth.)

24. The social theory of Social Darwinism... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth.)

25. In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was racism and other prejudices held them back.)

26. In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was

... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Herbert Spencer.)

27. According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth, ... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was the rich had great responsibilities to society.)

28. In his books, Horatio Alger... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was emphasized the value of personal character in business.)

29. The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.)

30. The late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.)

31. In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was a single land tax to replace all other taxes.)

32. Edward Bellamy’s 1888 book, Looking Backward... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.)

33. In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers... INCORRECT


34. During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Great Britain and northern Europe.)

35. Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.)

36. In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers did not exist.)

37. In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories,... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.)

38. During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was increased significantly since 1865.)

39. The Molly Maguires were a militant... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was labor union in the coal industry.)

40. The great railroad strike of 1877... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was was launched in response to a wage cut.)

41. The Knights of Labor... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was began as a secret fraternal organization.)

42. The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor were divided by their positions on... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was all of the above)

43. Samuel Gompers was the leader of the... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was American Federation of Labor.)

44. The Haymarket Square riot of 1886... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.)

45. During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States... INCORRECT


46. In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was steel)

47. Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead Strike of 1892?... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Hundred of guards hired by Homestead were defeated in a deadly battle with strikers.)

48. Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was Pullman strike)

49. The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy)

50. The Pullman strike of 1894... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.)

51. ... CORRECT

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