| Question 2 | 0 / 1.5 points |
In 1876, George Armstrong Custer made his “last stand” against the Apache in Kansas.
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| False | ||
| Question 3 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Santa Clara Case made it easier to regulate big business.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 4 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Eugene Debs was the president of the American Railway Union, which organized the Pullman Railroad Strike.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 5 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Most Americans blamed the labor unions for the violence associated with the labor strikes in the late 19th century.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 6 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Grover Cleveland was the only Democrat to serve as President during the Gilded Age.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 7 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
________, passed in the Southern states just after the Civil War, outlined the rights and restrictions of the former slaves.
Question options:
| Reconstruction Acts | ||
| Black Codes | ||
| 16th Amendment | ||
| Freedman’s Law | ||
| Question 8 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The _________ assisted the former slaves during Reconstruction in education, legal matters, etc.
Question options:
| Ku Klux Klan | ||
| Grand Army of the Republic | ||
| Reconstruction government | ||
| Freedmen’s Bureau | ||
| Question 9 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
During the Reconstruction Era, _______ were particularly terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
Question options:
| Former Black Slaves | ||
| Jews | ||
| Catholics | ||
| Scalawags | ||
| Question 10 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
__________ was the winner of the controversial presidential election of 1876.
Question options:
| Grover Cleveland | ||
| William McKinley | ||
| Rutherford Hayes | ||
| Benjamin Harrison | ||
| Question 11 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Which one of the following statements about Reconstruction is correct?
Question options:
| It is generally considered a failure. | ||
| It is generally considered a success. | ||
| Most freedmen did not think it was important to own land to achieve freedom. | ||
| Congress and the Presidents willingly shared all aspects of Reconstruction policy. | ||
| Question 12 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Which one of the following is not a significance of the West?
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| It gave the United States many of its natural resources. | ||
| It reinforced the American national characteristics of hard work, self-reliance, and independence. | ||
| It slowed down economic growth. | ||
| It helped lead to a careless attitude toward the environment. | ||
| Question 13 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Which one of the following was not one of the many factors that contributed to the Industrial Revolution?
Question options:
| Technology and Inventions | ||
| Abundance of natural resources | ||
| High wages | ||
| Government policies | ||
| Question 14 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
This was a determination by the federal Congress and the President of the steps necessary for the former Confederate States and their citizens to take in order to regain their rights as states and citizens.
Question options:
| Political Reconstruction | ||
| 14th Amendment | ||
| Social Reconstruction | ||
| Economic Reconstruction | ||
| Question 15 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
These Radical Republicans in Congress wanted extreme change for the freedmen in post Civil War America.
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| Samuel Tilden and Booker T. Washington | ||
| President Johnson and President Grant | ||
| Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner | ||
| William Sylvis and Terence Powderly | ||
| Question 16 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The _____________ was the first nationwide strike in US history and the first time that federal troops were used to break a labor strike.
Question options:
| 1877 Railroad Strike | ||
| 1892 Homestead Steel Strike | ||
| 1894 Pullman Railroad Strike | ||
| 1882 Coal Strike | ||
| Question 17 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The _________ system was reformed by the Pendleton Act.
Question options:
| Civil Service | ||
| Veterans’ Pensions | ||
| Economic | ||
| Political | ||
| Question 18 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Because of public pressure, due to few limitations on competition of the big businesses, this act was passed and was a weak attempt to outlaw trusts and monopolies
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| Hayes Monopoly Act | ||
| Sherman Antitrust Act | ||
| Grant Trust Act | ||
| Cleveland Antitrust Act | ||
| Question 19 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
A Sioux Indian leader
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| Wovoka | ||
| Geronimo | ||
| Black Kettle | ||
| Sitting Bull | ||
| Question 20 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Interstate Commerce Act was an example of the federal government becoming more involved in regulating business when the act regulated the ___________ industry.
Question options:
| steel | ||
| banking | ||
| railroad | ||
| textile | ||
| Question 21 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Dawes Severalty Act
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| gave the Native American tribes 50% more land in the West than the treaties with the various tribes had. | ||
| was designed to Americanize the Indian through individual ownership of land rather than tribal ownership. | ||
| ended the wars in the West between the Whites and Native Americans. | ||
| was designed to keep the Native American Indian tribal culture intact by preserving their languages and customs in written accounts in the library of Congress. | ||
| Question 22 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
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| did not allow the building of the Railroads through Indian hunting grounds. | ||
| gave the contract to build a railroad to the Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific companies. | ||
| gave land and loans to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies to finish a transcontinental railroad linking the West to the East. | ||
| would not allow immigrants as workers on the railroad. | ||
| Question 23 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
A problem for successful farming in the West from 1870 to 1890 was
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| dry conditions | ||
| too much rain | ||
| not much land left for settlement because the settlers in the 1850s had taken most of the land and the Indians the rest. | ||
| no suitable farm equipment available in the West. | ||
| Question 24 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Compromise of 1877
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| ended the war with the Sioux tribes. | ||
| ended the Railroad Strikes when the workers agreed to go back to work with a 10 % raise. | ||
| led to the acceptance from the Democrats and the South of Rutherford B. Hayes as president and the end of Reconstruction. | ||
| gave the Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives and the Republicans a majority in the Senate in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Question 25 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
This Reconstruction Plan hoped to delay letting southern states into their full functioning powers in order to have time to build up the Republican party in the South.
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| President Lincoln’s 10% plan | ||
| President Johnson’s Plan | ||
| Supreme Court Plan | ||
| Congressional Plan | ||
| Question 26 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
President Johnson was impeached because
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| his Secretary of the Treasury was accepting bribes from whiskey manufacturers. | ||
| he refused to support the building of the transcontinental railroad. | ||
| he violated the Tenure of Office Act when he fired the Secretary of War. | ||
| he would not sign the 15th Amendment into law and Congress wanted to strip him of his power. | ||
| Question 27 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Sharecropping became important to the economy in the South because there was little money to purchase land or pay wages to have the land farmed.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 28 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Carlisle Indian School was an example of attempted assimilation of the Native Americans.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 29 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Black Codes gave the freedmen complete freedom in the South and were a sign that the South was completely reconstructed.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 30 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Poll taxes were used to keep freedmen from voting despite the passage of the 15th Amendment that stated that race could not be used to deny the vote.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 31 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Homestead Act gave free land to the American Indians who settled on the reservations between 1865 and 1875.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 32 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The battle at the Little Big Horn was an Indian victory.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 33 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
__________ was instumental in enlarging the cattle industry in the West when he brought cattle up from Texas to stockyards at the railroad in Kansas for shipment East.
Question options:
| George Owens | ||
| President Benjamin Harrison | ||
| Benjamin Wade | ||
| Joseph Mccoy | ||
| Question 34 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The massacre at Wounded Knee occurred in 1865 and was the result of white settlers moving into Arizona which led Geronimo and his men into taking their last stand as a tribe of Apache and attacking Fort Reno.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 35 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
This Presidents’ administration suffered from several scandals and corruption, including the Credit Mobilier scandal and an attempt by financiers to corner the gold market.
Question options:
| Hayes | ||
| Cleveland | ||
| Grant | ||
| Arthur | ||
| Question 36 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Which one of the following labor organizations was successful under the leadership of Samuel Gompers by representing skilled workers?
Question options:
| National Labor Union | ||
| Knights of Labor | ||
| American Railway Union | ||
| American Federation of Labor | ||
| Question 37 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Which one of the following was not true of the Gilded Age Presidents?
Question options:
| Civil service reform, the money question, and whether to have a high or low tariff were all important issues for the presidents. | ||
| They were generally considered mediocre leaders. | ||
| They were all Republicans. | ||
| The order was Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland. | ||
| Question 38 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
What was the term for taking over competing companies in the same industry, often by setting up trusts, which allowed big businesses to eliminate competition?
Question options:
| Vertical Integration | ||
| A Marketing Ploy | ||
| Horizontal Integration | ||
| Mugwumpery | ||
| Question 39 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
All of the national labor unions were interested in higher wages and the eight-hour workday for the workers, who came together in unions and used the strike when necessary to gain their goals.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 40 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Chinese Exclsion Act and its passage was based on racism and hostility toward cheap immigrant labor.
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| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 41 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Which one of the following persons is not connected to the proper description?
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| Thomas Edison-Inventions including a long lasting light bulb. | ||
| Andrew Carnegie-Made his millions from railroads and banking. | ||
| President Garfield-Civil Service reform and assassination. | ||
| William Marcy Tweed-“Boss Tweed” the corruption of the political machine in New York City. | ||
| Question 42 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
This was not an occupation for those settling the West.
Question options:
| · mining | ||
| · cattle ranching | ||
| · farming | ||
| · steel manufacturing | ||
| Question 43 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
World War I was instrumental in bringing about success to the prohibition of alchohol for the temperance movement and the vote for the women’s suffrage movement.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 44 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
After the Civil War, fewer women attended college for the next fifty years and dropped out of any roles of social leadership.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 45 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The federal government gave a lot of help to solve the many problems in the cities including welfare for the poor and the immigrants.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 46 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Jane Addams and the Settlement Houses gave assistance to the poor, especially the immigrants, in the large cities.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 47 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Social Darwinism denied that Darwin’s idea of “survival of the fittest” could be applied to human society and that God decided each person’s place and success in life.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 48 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
Carrie Chapman Catt and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the birth control movement.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 49 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
William E.B. DuBois sharply criticized Booker T. Washington’s submissive attitude for black Americans.
Question options:
| True | ||
| False | ||
| Question 50 | 0 / 1.5 points | |
The Ghost Dance Movement
Question options:
| · included only the Sioux tribe. | |
| · was a religious movement for the Native Americans that maintained that if the Native Americans danced the Ghost Dance, God (the Great Spirit) would destroy the whites. | |
| · led to the Battle of the Little Big Horn. | |
| · united all of the tribes in the West for a final battle against the whites. |
