Reconstruction
In regards to giving blacks the right to vote, Lincoln believed
A. an amendment should be passed guaranteeing black suffrage.
B. Congress should mandate black suffrage.
C. state should determine who could vote.
D. an executive order should allow for black suffrage.
C. state should determine who could vote.
In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act to
A. create more reservations to connect all of the states of the eastern seaboard.
B. transform the reservations into individual plots of land.
C. create schools for Indians.
D. provide for farm education to the Indians.
B. transform the reservations into individual plots of land.
The inventions and innovations of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and George Westinghouse did all of the following EXCEPT
A. contributed to the rise of the Industrial Revolution.
B. made life easier for the masses.
C. increased business activity.
D. merely served as only gadgets.
D. merely served as only gadgets.
The New South featured all of the following EXCEPT
A. pride in Confederacy.
B. support for blacks.
C. forms of industrialization.
D. emergence of the railroads.
B. support for blacks.
Immigrants after the 1890s were predominantly
A. Northern European.
B. Protestant.
C. Catholic and Jewish.
D. highly skilled workers
C. Catholic and Jewish.
The most vocal advocates of black suffrage proved to be
A. Northern Democrats.
B. Radical Republican.
C. Modest Republicans.
D. Abolitionists.
B. Radical Republicans.
The Homestead Act offered
A. 160 Acres of land to each family who agreed to settle and maintain it.
B. the extension of reservation land thought out the West.
C. free land exclusively in Oklahoma.
D. to divide land in the east.
A. 160 Acres of land to each family who agreed to settle and maintain it.
To eliminate what Rockefeller believed to be wasteful competition in the oil industry, he engaged in the practice of
A. vertical integration.
B. horizontal integration.
C. trust busting.
D. price raising.
B. horizontal integration.
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court
A. struck down segregation on trains.
B. introduced the "separate but equal" doctrine.
C. ruled segregation in urban transit to be unconstitutional.
D. struck down segregation in public schools.
B. introduced the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show featured all of the following EXCEPT
A. scenes of Indian battles.
B. scenes of Indian dancing.
C. stagecoach robberies.
D. minority cowboys.
D. minority cowboys.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude is inherent in
A. Thirteenth Amendment.
B. Fourteenth Amendment.
C. Fifteenth Amendment.
D. Sixteenth Amendment.
B. Fifteenth Amendment.
The Sioux’s Ghost Dance called for
A. a migration to Canada.
B. a return of buffalo and disappearance of whites.
C. the destruction of enemy tribes.
D. the transformation to white culture.
B. a return of buffalo and disappearacne of whites.
A. vertical integration.
B. horizontal integration.
C. labor arbitration.
D. price gouging.
A. vertical integration.
The nation's earliest nationwide farmer organization was
A. the Populist party.
B. the Grange.
C. the Alliance.
D. the Agricultural Wheel.
B. the Grange.
Under the system of sharecropping, most southern blacks
A. owned the land on which they farmed.
B. had plantation stores to provide supplies to other blacks.
C. fell into a hopeless cycle of debt to landowners.
D. made huge profits.
C. fell into a hopeless cycle of debt to landowners.
The nation‘s first African American ever elected to the Senate was
A. Hiram R. Revels.
B. Blanche K. Bruce.
C. Lucius Q. C. Lamar.
D. Frederick Douglass
A. Hiram R. Revels.
By the 1800s federal reformers came to believe that the Indians
A. could only assimilate if the reservations were gone.
B. Indians could never be assimilated.
C. had to leave the nation altogether.
D. should be educated in their own ways.
A. could only assimilate if the reservations were gone.
J.P. Morgan saved Grover Cleveland's fiscal nightmare by
A. selling the federal government his bonds and buying government gold.
B. offering the government $65 million in gold in return for 30-year bonds.
C. offering the government huge supplies of silver.
D. buying government bonds.
B. offering the government $65 million in gold return for 30-year bonds.
Irish immigrant coal miners who attacked the administrators of the coal mines in Pennsylvania came to be known as
A. Wobbles.
B. Populist.
C. Scabs.
D. Molly Maguires.
D. Molly Maguires
Most of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire were
A. German immigrants.
B. Jewish and Italian women.
C. Irish children.
D. Russian men.
B. Jewish and Italian women.
To counter the terror of the Ku Klux Klan
A. Congress threatened renewed war with the South.
B. the Freedman‘s Bureau adopted self-defense tactics.
C. The Knights of the White Camellia formed to combat the KKK.
D. Congress passed the Enforcement Acts.
D. Congress passed the Enforcement Acts.
The Comanche Empire was located primarily in
A. the northeast
B. the southwest
C. the southeast
D. the northwest
B. the southwest
With the pressure of anti-immigrant sentiment, the Chinese became the only named group in U.S. history to
A. be excluded from migrating into the U.S.
B. join Russian Jews in being expulsed from the country.
C. face migration quotas.
D. be placed in permanent camps.
A. be excluded from migrating into the U.S.
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 featured
A. the killing of policemen in Colorado.
B. over thirty killed during a coal mine strike.
C. miners killed at the Homestead plant.
D. strikers killed during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
B. over thirty killed during a coal mine strike.
All of the following dominated an industry EXCEPT
A. Gustavus Swift.
B. Charles Pillbury.
C. James G. Blaine.
D. Frederick Weyerhauser.
C. James G. Blaine.