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The chapter tells the story of Benjamin Montgomery to make the point that

for former slaves to attain meaningful lives a free citizens, they would need economic power, which, in turn, required political power

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According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?

the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations

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During the war, congressional leaders felt that Lincoln's plan ________, so they passed ________.

was too lenient; the more stringent Wade-Davis bill, which Lincoln vetoed

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Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an intent to

liberally grant pardons to Confederate soldiers.

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The Radical Republicans in Congress approached Reconstruction with each of the following convictions EXCEPT that

to heal the nation, the South should be treated with generosity and compassion.

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The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program of Reconstruction indicated

despair and defiance

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Under new president Andrew Johnson, presidential Reconstruction

made it possible for former high-ranking Confederates to assume positions of power in the reconstructed southern governments

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Which of the following is NOT true about the Radical-dominated Reconstruction Congress?

Its influence waned when northern voters repudiated Radical congressmen at the polls in 1866.

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The central issue that divided Johnson and congressional Radicals was

the future place of African Americans in U.S. society

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The North interpreted black codes as

evidence that the South sought to keep freedmen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status

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The southern governments, as initially reconstituted after the war, alarmed northern public opinion for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that

they were blatantly corrupt and wasteful in spending tax dollars

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What won the support of congressional moderates for the Radical program?

the president's uncompromising veto of a civil rights bill

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Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for?

a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen

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The Second Confiscation Act of 1862 had authorized the government to seize and sell the property of supporters of the rebellion; however, President Johnson ruled that the law

applied only to wartime

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The Fifteenth Amendment

expanded suffrage

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Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided conviction on impeachment charges because

some Republicans feared that removal would set a bad precedent for using impeachment as a political weapon against the presidency

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Which of the following most accurately explains the meaning of the refusal of Congress to convict Johnson?

The power of the Radicals in Congress was waning

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African Americans who held political office in southern Reconstruction governments generally

were educated professionals, independent landowners, or otherwise from the ranks of black elites

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What is true about southern economic redevelopment?

Republican-dominated Reconstruction governments sought to encourage southern industry

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One measure of black efforts to experience freedom was the

adoption of a surname.

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Which of the following was illumined by the text as a familial problem faced by some African Americans after they were freed?

having multiple spouses

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After emancipation, the most important institutions for African Americans as they tried to establish their own independent family and community life were the

schools and the churches

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In the years after the Civil War, many freedmen ended up working as

farmers under a sharecropper system

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"Sharecropping" means

returning a fraction of the harvest to the landowner as rent

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Most new textile workers in the South were

poor and white

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What is the best explanation for why tenancy became widespread in the South?

A shortage of cash and credit made land ownership difficult

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At the center of southern life was

the church

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The text makes the point that southern rural folk sought stability and social order in

religion

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To what does the term "Jim Crow" refer?

a system of legalized separation of blacks as socially inferior

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Who were the Redeemers?

white Democrats vowing to end Republican rule

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Taos of New Mexico believed that each spring the pregnant earth issued new life. Which of the following is a custom they followed with respect to this belief?

unshod their horses

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The earlier federal Indian policy of "concentration" (deemed a failure by the 1880s) sought to

limit the hunting grounds of many tribes

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What was the difference between the racial labor identities of California and Texas?

California had Asian Americans, where Texas did not.

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The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 proved destructive because it

attacked the communal structure of tribal life

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Labor in the construction of the California section of the transcontinental railroad was supplied by

Chinese Workers

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How were the cities of the urban West different than the cities of the East?

They grew outward instead of upward.

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By 1887 Congress had become so alarmed at foreign ownership of western land that it enacted the

Alien Land Law

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The text stresses that the late-1800s phase of industrialization brought about not only corporations of great size but also

a national network of complex systems of industry, invention, and information

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The first "big business" in America, at least in terms of finance, labor relations, and management, was the

railroad industry

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What company did J. Pierpont Morgan create when he merged nine competing steel manufacturers into one?

United States Steel Corporation

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Which is a true statement about forms of business organization?

The trust was a device to enlarge corporate power by jointly controlling and managing once-competing firms through a central board of directors

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From where did the bulk of the manpower come, to work in the many new factories?

both from the rural areas of America and Europe

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The ________ was an essential system undergirding the rise of big business; it was itself big business; it was a cultural symbol of American industrialization; and it was a stimulus to other enterprises because it consumed so many natural resources.

railroad system

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Which of the following, according to critics of industrial capitalism, was a "cost of doing business"?

concentrated power

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Serving as financial advisers to railroads, the ________ often eventually found themselves taking control.

investment bankers

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Which of the following was a union benefit the railroad "brotherhoods" provided their members prior to the Civil War?

insurance

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A true social Darwinist like William Graham Sumner would accept

business bankruptcies

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Which of the following advocated what was referred to as "social Darwinism"?

Herbert Spencer

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Who advocated what he called a "single tax"?

Henry George

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The American Federation of Labor was comparatively successful because it

stressed gradual, concrete gains for its members

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What statement about the workers' world of the 1880s and 1890s is true?

Each year, industrial mishaps injured over 500,000 workers

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What does the text mean by asserting that certain jobs were "feminized"?

Males tended to no longer pursue certain professional occupations once women entered them in significant numbers.

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For ordinary workers to affect the industrial order, they had to develop their own kind of integrated system. Specifically, they had to pursue

unionization

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The ________ prescribed not only an economic system, but a Protestant moralistic social plan.

Knights of Labor

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Which statement about the American Federation of Labor is true?

The AFL, a combination of craft unions, stressed concrete, practical economic gains

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Which is an accurate statement about demographic trends in the late nineteenth century?

The proportion of Americans living in cities rose

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Which of the following statements about late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century immigrants is NOT true?

Most were skilled urban workers

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Which of the following statements about late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century immigrants is NOT true?

Most were Protestants.

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In late nineteenth-century American cities

the middle and upper classes lived in the newer outer suburbs.

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Before the 1880s, most immigrants came from ________; after the 1880s, most immigrants came from ________.

northern and western Europe; southern and eastern Europe

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What was the primary solution to the realization that cities could hardly survive, let alone grow, without improved transportation?

electric streetcars

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The urban political machines stayed in power in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century because

they effectively provided needed services to the poorer city dwellers.

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about the urban bosses?

They both served and exploited the people of the city.

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A new experiment in providing social services to slum dwellers featured centers where middle-class women lived among the poor, provided amenities, and taught American ways to immigrants. These were called

settlement houses

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Evidence justifying the use of the label "politics of paralysis" to describe the American political system during the late nineteenth century includes all of the following EXCEPT that

. the period was marked by relatively low voter turnout

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Which party tended to support a program of active federal support for economic growth, including high tariffs?

Republicans

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What was the "bloody shirt"?

a rhetorical symbol used by Republicans and Democrats to blame each other for the Civil War

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The first modern governmental reform law, the Pendleton Act of 1883 enacted in response to the assassination of President Garfield, provided for

civil service merit standards and procedures for government jobs

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Farmer frustrations that fueled the rise of the People's party included all of the following EXCEPT

inflation

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The ________ was created in response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Munn v. Illinois and set an important precedent in establishing a right for federal government to regulate private corporations.

Interstate Commerce Commission

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In the years surrounding 1890, an innovative program of self-help spearheaded by the Southern Alliance movement flourished, though on the whole the effort, known as "________," failed.

cooperatives

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The election of 1892 was especially significant because the

Democrats won both houses of Congress

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What is the best explanation of "free silver"?

The U.S. government would promote prosperity by inflating the money supply through minting all the silver offered to it.

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Coxey's Army

descended on Washington to demand a program to employ the jobless

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Above all, the depression of the 1890s demonstrated the

inability of the nation's political system to smooth out the economic cycle of boom and bust.

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As a result of the depression of 1893,

new attitudes toward poverty and government responsibility emerged

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The Southwest had a distinct and complex development; just as the southern economy relied on the labor of African Americans, the Southwest grew on the labor of:

Chinese

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Former slaves who followed reports of better opportunities to the promised land of Kansas were nicknamed

Exodusters

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