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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	Former Black Slaves
	Jews
	Catholics
	Scalawags
Question 10		0 / 1.5 points

__________ was the winner of the controversial presidential election of 1876.

 

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	Grover Cleveland
	William McKinley
	Rutherford Hayes
	Benjamin Harrison
Question 11		0 / 1.5 points

Which one of the following statements about Reconstruction is correct?

 

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	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?

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	True
	False
Question 32		0 / 1.5 points

The battle at the Little Big Horn was an Indian victory.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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?

 

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	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?

 

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	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?

 

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	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.

 

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	·       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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	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.

 

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	True
	False
Question 48		0 / 1.5 points

Carrie Chapman Catt and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the birth control movement.

 

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	True
	False
Question 49		0 / 1.5 points

William E.B. DuBois sharply criticized Booker T. Washington’s submissive attitude for black Americans.

 

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	True
	False
Question 50		0 / 1.5 points

The Ghost Dance Movement

 

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	·       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.