Multiple Choice Questions (30 questions, each worth 2 points)--Please select the BEST answer to each question.
1. Which of the following is part of Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan?
A. Fifty percent of voters swear an oath of allegiance to the United States
B. Wealthy southern men had to apply for a presidential pardon and swear an oath of allegiance to the United States
C. Military occupation of the southern states
D. Approval of the Black Codes throughout the southern states
2. Johnson’s veto of this bill triggered angry political reactions from the Radical Republicans in 1866 and strained the relationship between the President and Congress:
A. The first Freedmen’s Bureau bill
B. The second Freedmen’s Bureau bill
C. The Wade-Davis Bill
D. The Military Reconstruction Acts
3. The Reconstruction plan presented by the Radical Republicans, led by Representative Thaddeus Stevens, centered on this essential political approach:
A. The South should be rebuilt and restored to full rights immediately
B. No more that 20% of each state’s population should swear a loyalty oath before the state is readmitted to the Union
C. All of the former Confederate political and military leaders should be pardoned immediately
D. The South should be treated as a conquered people and weakened so that they can no longer endanger the Union
4. What group(s) made up the southern post-war group known as scalawags?
A. Southern farmers who had not owned slaves and had opposed secession from the Union
B. A group of Southern planters who had been economically and socially ruined by the Civil War
C. Southern business leaders who wanted to end the region’s dependence on agriculture
D. All of the above
5. Which of the following was NOT part of the bargain that decided the Election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction?
A. Rutherford Hayes becomes President of the United States
B. Federal troops are withdrawn from the South
C. Samuel Tilden becomes Vice-President of the United States
D. All Republican state government in the South collapse and get removed from office
6. This 1887 law was the first government act aimed at regulating a specific industry or business:
A. Dawes Act
B. Interstate Commerce Act
C. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
D. Pure Food and Drug Act
7. Which of the following is NOT a requirement for settlers wanting to claim full ownership of land under provisions of the 1862 Homestead Act?
A. Family leader has to be male
B. Build a home and make improvements on the property
C. The head of household must at least 21 years old
D. The land must be farmed for at least 10 years
8. This robber baron controlled the banking industry and ran afoul of President Theodore Roosevelt with the Northern Securities Corporation case:
A. Andrew Carnegie
B. J. P. Morgan
C. John D. Rockefeller
D. George Pullman
9. This robber baron and entrepreneur built his financial empire with control of Southern railroads and is the namesake of a famous Tennessee university:
A. J. P. Morgan
B. John D. Rockefeller
C. George Pullman
D. Cornelius Vanderbilt
10. This organization, founded by Terrance Powderly in 1869, focused on unskilled laborers and worked on higher wages for workers:
A. American Federation of Labor
B. United Auto Workers
C. Knights of Labor
D. United Mine Workers
11. Which of the following strikes was ended by the intervention of federal troops because of threats to the delivery of the United States mail?
A. Great Railroad Strike
B. Pullman Strike
C. Haymarket Riot
D. Homestead Strike
12. This process, perfected in the 1860s by a Kentuckian and Englishman, allowed for the cheaper and stronger manufacture of steel:
A. Bessemer Process
B. Edison Process
C. Morris Process
D. Beward process
13. Sears, J C Penney and Montgomery Ward’s are all examples of this type of urban business created in the 1890s:
A. Specialty Store
B. Downtown Shopping Mall
C. Department Store
D. Boutique
14. Which inventions were part of the communications revolution during the Second Industrial Revolution?
A. Telephone
B. Telegraph
C. Typewriter
D. All of the above
15. This philosophy helped the robber barons justify their fortunes as compared to the troubles experienced by working class people in America:
A. Social Darwinism
B. Social Gospel
C. Social Activism
D. Gospel of Help
16. Which of the following inventors had a record 1093 patents and continues to be a major influence on American life today:
A. George Washington Carver
B. Henry Bessemer
C. Thomas Alva Edison
D. Robert Kelley
17. Which government act, passed in 1882, basically excluded an ethnic group from the entering the United States and ensured that all immigrants would serve time in an internment camp before entering the United States?
A. Dawes Act
B. African Exclusion Act
C. Pendleton Act
D. Chinese Exclusion Act
18. This government act, passed in 1890, allowed government to regulate businesses that became too big and threatened to monopolize an industry or concern:
A. Dawes Act
B. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
C. Interstate Commerce Act
D. Anti-Monopoly Act
19. This law broke up the Indian reservations and had a major impact on the settlement of the West:
A. Dawes Act
B. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
C. Pacific Railway Act
D. Interstate Commerce Act
20. Which 1896 Supreme Court legalized segregation as the law of the land and allowed for separation of the races?
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Roosevelt v. Northern Securities Corporation
C. Marbury v. Madison
D. None of the above
21. This labor union, founded by Samuel Gompers in the 1880s, started with a focus on attracting skilled laborers from several industries:
A. Knights of Labor
B. American Federation of Labor
C. United Auto Workers
D. International Workers of the World
22. This form of economics can be characterized by a lack of government involvement in business and a focus on making the market most successful for business:
A. Socialism
B. Communism
C. Government Economics
D. Laissez-faire Capitalism
23. Which of the following types of businesses requires union membership as a condition of employment:
A. Open Shop
B. Closed Shop
C. Mixed Shop
D. No Shop
24. What characterizes the expectations for immigrants coming to the United States in the late nineteenth century?
A. Creation of ethnic ghettos
B. Assimilation of American values
C. Allegiance to old world family values
D. Fear of what America would bring
Open Responses (write both, each worth 20 points) Remember that answers must be in complete sentences and paragraphs.
1. Prompt: The rise of big business led to the development of labor unions.
Instructions:
a. Explain three reasons for the development of labor unions
b. Discuss two advantages of union membership
c. Discuss one disadvantage of union membership for the worker
2. Prompt: The Industrial Revolution has a major impact on developing countries and the lives of the citizens.
Instructions:
a. Identify three factors that contributed to the growth of industry
b. Discuss three effects that industrialization had on the working class women and children