Quarterly Review 11.15.15 Flashcards
As a politicain, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as
a champion of poor whites
The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that
after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868
For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following EXCEPT
a. the ability to search for lost family.
b. the right to get married.
c. the opportunity to form their own churches.
d. that large numbers would move north.
d. that large numbers would move north.
The greatest achievements of the Freedman’s Bureau were in
education
The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress
In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised
rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union
That the Southern states were “conquered provinces” that had completely left the Union and were therefore at the mercy of Congress for readmission was the view of
congressional Republicans
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
ensure a stable and subservient labor supply
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was
Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the Freedman’s Bureau
Radical congressional Reconstruction in the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877
In 1867 Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration’s greatest success in foreign relations when he
purchased Alaska from Russia
The “Billion-Dollar Congress” quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
expanding pensions for Civil War veterans
The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was
tariff policy
The early Populist cmpaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in
a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the South
At the conclusion of the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant
accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens
The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 were
the Republicans
As a result of the Civil War the moral stature of the Republic
waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft
Match each politician below with the Republican political faction with which he was associated.
A. Roscoe Conkling 1. “Half Breeds”
B. James Blaine 2. Stalwarts
C. Horace Greeley 3. Regular Republicans
D. Ulysses S. Grant 4. Liberal Republicans
A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested
inflationary policies
The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s
aroused great interest among voters
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court case that stated “separate but equal” was legal
President James A. Garfield was assassinated
by a deranged, disappointed office seeker
When he was president, Grover Cleveland’s hands-of approach to government gained the support of
business people
The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the
Great Northern
What term describes agreements between railroad corporations to divide business ans share profits?
pools
Early railroad owners formed “pools” in order to
avoid competition by dividing business in a particular area
When private railroad promoters asked the United States government for subsidies to build their railroads, they gave all of the following reasons for their request EXCEPT that it was
a. the railroads would repay the subsidies by paying higher taxes
b. too costly without government help.
c. private investors would not accept initial financial losses.
d. too risky without government help.
a. the railroads would repay the subsidies by paying higher taxes
America’s first billion-dollar corportation was
United States Steel
The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of
Henry Bessemer
John D. Rockefeller used all of the following tactics to achieve his domination of the oil industry EXCEPT
a. employing spies.
b. extorting rebates from railroads.
c. using high-pressure sales methods
d. using federal agents to break his competitors.
c. using high-pressure sales methods
In the late nineteenth century, tax benefits and cheap, nonunion labor especially attracted ___________________ manufacturing to the “new South.”
textile
Many Southerners saw employment at the textile mills as
the only steady jobs and wages available
The ___________ Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments.
Fourteenth
The people who founf fault with the “captains of industry” mostly argues that these men
built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers
The Knights of Labor believed that conflict between capital and labor would disappear when
labor would own and operate business and industries
All of the following were important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion EXCEPT
a. American ingenuity and inventiveness.
b. immigration restrictions.
c. an abundance of natural resources.
d. a large pool of unskilled labor.
b. immigration restrictions.
Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following EXCEPT
a. willing to work for lower wages.
b. opposed to factory labor.
c. used as strikebreakers.
d. difficult to unionize.
b. opposed to factory labor
The American Protective Association
supported immigration restrictions
The “Bird of Passage” was an immigrant who
came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe
As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington
promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation
Americans offered growing support for a free public education system
because they expected the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens
One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the
stresses of urban life
Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in
landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values
General Lewis Wallace’s book Ben Hur defended Christianity against
Darwinism
In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following EXCEPT
a. soaring divorce rates.
b. increasingly frank discussions.
c. more children being born out of wedlock.
d. the spreading practice of birth control.
c. more children being born out of wedlock
In the course of the late nineteenth century family size
gradually declined
Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape
the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy
What was the subject of the 18th Amendment?
prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages
