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2. All of the following improvements in tenements made living conditions for city
dwellers much better after the turn of the century with the exception of
a. ventilation.
b. adding a fourth room.
c. light.
d. running water.
3. The 15th Amendment included
a. equal rights and protection under the law.
b. the end of slavery.
c. the establishment of citizenship in the U.S.
d. the right to vote for African-American males.
6. The federal government provided land grants for state colleges in 1862 with the
a. Jones Land Grant Act.
b. Morrill Land Grant Act.
c. Homestead Act.
d. Pacific Railway Act.
7. The major urban centers of the 1890’s in the United States were
a. probably less polluted than today’s cities.
b. Enjoying almost no crime.
c. Experiencing the lowest suicide rate in the world.
d. Terribly crowded and polluted.
9. The discoverer of the process for creating steel was
a. Andrew Carnegie.
b. Henry Clay Frick.
c. Henry Bessemer.
d. Jay Gould.
10. The type of business organization in which a single company owns and
controls the entire production process from extracting raw materials to sale of the
finished product is known as
a. horizontal integration
b. a trust.
c. a monopoly.
d. vertical integration
11. The leader of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s was
a. Eugene V. Debs.
b. Terence Powderly.
c. Henry Clay Frick.
d. Samuel Gompers.
12. The labor violence at Carnegie steel plant in 1892 was the
a. Homestead Strike.
b. Pullman Strike.
c. The Pinkerton Assault.
d. Haymarket Square Riot.
13. Radical Republicans generally
a. accepted President Lincoln’s Reconstruction policies.
b. wanted to make protection of black civil rights a precondition for
readmitting southern states to the Union.
c. were prepared to allow former Confederate politicians to return to
political offices in the southern states.
d. hoped to bring the southern states back into the Union as quickly as
possible.
14. By the end of 1865, most former slaves had
a. moved west and taken up their own farms.
b. returned to work on the plantations.
c. assumed control of every southern state government.
d. joined the Democratic party.
15. Perhaps the major blow to tribal life on the plains in the 1870s was the
a. death of major Indian chiefs.
b. massacre of so many Plains Indians.
c. destruction of the buffalo herds.
d. opposition of tribal leaders to the reservation.
18. The Knights of Labor
a. succeeded because it organized only skilled workers.
b. failed when Samuel Gompers, its founder, died in 1869.
c. Tried to organize black and women workers as well as white workers.
d. none of the above
20. The golden spike was significant for having done what?
a. creating a monopoly of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.
b. Connecting the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad lines.
c. Uniting Irish, Chinese and Mexican rail workers in a single union.
d. Representing the laying of the first tie in the rail line to the Comstock
Lode.
22. The urban political machines stayed in power in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries because
a. they kept immigrants from getting jobs.
b. they strictly followed legal financial and political procedures.
c. they used legal and illegal tactics to win elections.
d. None of the above
24. The Interstate Commerce Act was passed
a. in response to the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890.
b. to regulate prices that railroads charged to move freight between
states.
c. to prevent J.D. Rockefeller from monopolizing the oil refining
business.
d. to limit the power of the federal government thereby pleasing the
proponents of “laissez-faire.”
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26. Northerners who favored black civil rights and punishment of the South after
the Civil War were
a. Scalawags.
b. Radical Republicans.
c. Liberal Republicans.
d. Northern Democrats.
27. The black codes were designed to
a. assist former slaves adjust to freedom.
b. keep former slaves in positions of legal segregation and subservience.
c. help industrialize the south.
d. attract northern investors to the south.
28. Which of the following required 50% of southern voters to take an oath of
loyalty to the Union before they could begin to form a state government and
return to the Union?
a. President Lincoln’s plan
b. President Johnson’s plan
c. Wade-Davis Bill
d. Military Reconstruction plan
29. All of the following were general goals of labor unions with the exception of
a. shorter hours.
b. prohibited use of Scabs.
c. higher wages.
d. end to child labor.
30. All of the following Presidents were assassinated in the second half of the 19 th
century with the exception of
a. Grover Cleveland.
b. William McKinley.
c. Abraham Lincoln.
d. James Garfield.
31. Why did the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Johnson in
1868?
a. The president had been indicted for corruption.
b. The president had spoken against Reconstruction acts.
c. The president had fired a cabinet official without Senate approval.
d. The president had made secret agreements with the military in the
South.
32. Hiram Revels was the first African-American to hold which post?
a. Secretary of State
b. U.S. Senator
c. U.S. House of Representative
d. Supreme Court Justice
34. Who were exodusters?
a. settlers who moved west and arrived with reddish dirt on their faces
and clothes
b. former slaves who made a mass migration from the south.
c. American Indians who lived on the plains.
d. Miners who exited from the shafts in which they worked all day.
35. Why did labor unions form?
a. Immigrants did not want to compete with natives for jobs.
b. Women wanted equal treatment in the workplace.
c. Workers needed to increase their bargaining power.
d. Factory managers would only hire union labor.
36. What is one of the fundamental differences between capitalism and
socialism?
a. Under socialism, the government owns the factories and raw materials
b. Under socialism, unions are organized by industry rather than skill
level.
c. Under capitalism, the government can interfere in the marketplace and
set prices.
d. Under capitalism, unions use collective bargaining rather than
aggressive tactics.
39. Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South
before 1870?
a. Local governments did not do much to stop the violence of the group.
b. The Klan made threats to the government to discourage government
interference.
c. The Klan received public support from Congress to continue its work.
d. Local governments had no legal right to prohibit the group’s activities.
40. The Dawes Act reflected the views of reformers who believed
a. American Indians ought to adopt the ways of white people
b. American Indians ought to be politically independent.
c. Traditional aspects of Indian society ought to be celebrated.
d. Traditional land use practices by Indian society ought to be updated
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41. The National Grange was an organization created on behalf of
a. regulators
b. immigrants
c. businessmen
d. farmers
43. What effect did the moving assembly line, introduced by Henry Ford have on
the automobile industry?
a. It reduced profits.
b. It made cars safer.
c. It decreased the cost of production.
d. It improved working conditions in factories.
44. Of which of these business practices would entrepreneur J.D. Rockefeller
have approved?
a. purchasing all of the businesses in a single field to control production.
b. Promoting competition between companies to improve quality.
c. Letting the government monitor and manage business deals.
d. Providing different boards of directors for every branch of a business.
45. Social Darwinism is the idea that
a. business is becoming less and less human.
b. Only the fittest individuals succeed in society.
c. Successful businessmen must aid the poor.
d. All men should share the profits of business.
46. Monopolies were criticized as being unfair because they
a. illegally restrain international trade.
b. Give too much political power to the president of the corporation.
c. Raise the prices and limit competition.
d. Prevent the stockholders from controlling a corporation’s policies.
47. What did the Populist Party do to gain industrial workers’ votes?
a. promise more jobs to immigrants
b. propose private ownership of railroads
c. support the Republican Party in the 1896 election.
d. Support the 8 hour workday and limits on immigration.
48. Jacob Riis became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York
City
a. sweatshops
b. schools
c. tenements
d. factories
49. Which of these reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that the government
had proposed or passed?
a. the recall
b. the referendum
c. the initiative
d. the direct primary
50. How did the Freedmen’s Bureau affect education for freed slaves in the
South?
a. It provided freed slaves with transportation to and from schools.
b. It established more schools and increased efforts to educate freed
slaves.
c. It created scholarship programs that allowed freed slaves to attend
college.
d. It established integrated schools for freed slaves and poor whites to
attend.
1. African-Americans entered into a new era in the period following the
American Civil War. Some would argue that this time period was more
difficult than living under the institution of slavery, but others would
argue that freedom was worth the suffering and hardships that freedmen
would encounter. Discuss the difficulties faced by African-Americans in
the years following the American Civil War as well as the successes they
were able to achieve. In your final estimation, would you argue that true
freedom was achieved for African-Americans with the passage of the 13th
amendment? Why or why not?
Try to outline a short response or create a list of items that you would discuss.
True/False (20 points)…Write out the words true or
false in the blanks on the Answer sheet.
51. The traditional leaders in the South prior to the American Civil War were
wealthy Republicans.
52. The Knights of Labor only accepted skilled laborers as members in their
union.
53. The Freedmen’s Bureau was an agency established by the Federal
Government in 1866 to ease the transition from slavery to freedom.
54. Tenant farming was a method of farming where tenants paid for their land
with a portion (usually half) of the harvest.
55. The Dawes Act gave American Indians plots of their own private land on
reservations provided they stayed on the land for 15 years.
56. “Barbed-wire warfare” was the result of conflict between the Plains Indians
and cowboys moving their herds up the Chisholm Trail.
57. Only one of the four plans for Reconstruction went as far as requiring equal
rights for freed slaves.
58. Carpetbaggers were white northern Democrats who came to the South to
take advantage of the social, economic and political ruin after the American Civil
War.
59. The Military Reconstruction Plan of 1867 was the harshest and most
demanding of the four plans for Reconstruction.
60. The Farmers’ Alliances were regional organizations that created
“co-ops” which assisted farmers by offering them the opportunity to buy in bulk.
61. In the case of Plessy V. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that
segregation was unconstitutional.
62. Big business continued to grow in America despite the passage of the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which was difficult to enforce.
63. During the Industrial Revolution in the United States, skilled craftspeople
were often replaced with unskilled workers who operated machinery.
64. The Populist party favored the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
65. Congress accepted without question Abraham Lincoln’s plan to rebuild the
Union, but fought especially hard against Andrew Johnson’s plan.
66. A major conflict of ideas dividing American Indians and the U.S. government
was that American Indians shared ownership of land while the U.S. insisted upon
individual, private ownership of land.
67. The anger of the Sioux after the Massacre at Wounded Knee led them to
attack the U.S. troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
68. The governor of Pennsylvania called on the state militia to restore order after
the Homestead Strike.
69. In the system of sharecropping, sharecroppers paid for their plot of land with
a portion of their harvest, usually 50% of the crop.
70. Congress voted by a 2/3 majority to determine who would receive the 20
disputed electoral votes in the Election of 1876 and thereby win the Presidency.
Part III. Who am I? (15 points)…Fill in the blanks on the Answer
sheet with the person(s) full name.
71. I made sure that immigrants had a place to stay and a steady job in return
for their vote.
72. I pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis Bill because of my belief that it was too
harsh towards the south.
73. I was the only President in the history of the United States to serve nonconsecutive terms.
74. I was the Vice President under James Garfield and assumed the
Presidency after his assassination.
75. I was ambushed by a band of 2000 Sioux warriors and killed at the Battle
of Little Bighorn.
76. I was the first elected leader (“Grand Wizard) of the Ku Klux Klan, which
began in Pulaski, TN in 1866.
77. I was the leader of the American Railway Union and once received 20,000
Presidential votes from my jail cell.
78. I was in charge of Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead, PA and
was responsible for hiring the Pinkerton Detectives to protect the Scabs.
79. I was the leader of the American Federation of Labor.
80. I was the third President assassinated in the 19th century.
81. I won the disputed election of 1876 after cutting a deal with the
Democrats, called the Compromise of 1877.
82. We cheated during the land races in Oklahoma Territory and snuck out
early to lay claim to our land.
83. I was the founder of one of the most famous settlement houses in Chicago.
84. The last southern states were readmitted to the Union during my
Presidency.
85. I was the Secretary of War fired under the Tenure of Office Act, which
almost led to the removal of President Johnson through the process of
impeachment.
Part IV. Matching (15 points)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Progressives
17th Amendment
Bozeman Trail
horizontal integration
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Andrew Carnegie
Enforcement Act of 1870
Pocket veto
Strike
Monotheism
Chief Red Cloud
“laissez-faire”
recall
p. Chief Sitting Bull
q. boomtown
r. collective bargaining
s. J.D. Rockefeller
t. polytheism
u. assimilation
v. vertical integration
w. initiative
x. muckrakers
y. 16th Amendment
z. company town
aa. AFL
bb. Knights of Labor
cc. Chisholm Trail
dd. Hull House
86. This political reform allowed voters to propose laws by gaining signatures
on a petition.
87. Journalists who tried to expose the bad aspects of society in late 19th
century America.
88. This labor organization did not believe in the use of strikes.
89. This big businessman believed it was an obligation for the wealthy to give
back to society as outlined in his writing of, The Gospel of Wealth.
90. This concept said the federal government should take a “hands off”
approach to involvement in the affairs of business and even individual’s
private lives.
91. This act outlawed monopolies in the United States.
92. Adopting the dominant culture.
93. Set up a merit system for assigning government jobs and was backed by
President Chester A. Arthur.
94. A tool used by workers to peacefully negotiate for better working
conditions using the concept of “strength in numbers.”
95. Focused on the needs of Chicago’s immigrant families and served as an
important cultural center.
96. This trail led from Texas to Kansas upon which large cattle herds were
driven.
97. This allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
98. This was the American Indian belief in many gods.
99. Sioux Chief who sought treaties with the government and no longer
wanted to resist the whites.
100. These towns sprung up around factories and everything in the town was
owned and operated by the factory.
Organization of your binder: I have designed the course to be broken down into units
revolving around a particular theme. So far we have covered:
1. Reconstruction
2. Westward Movement
3. Industrialization
4. Urbanization
5. Gilded Age
6. Imperialism
I structure the entrance activity alongside the day’s notes. Therefore, I usually don’t
break up the entrance activity and the notes.