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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A refusal to take the presidential oath of office unless Congress supported his reconstruction plans
B hostility towards the freedmen
C pardoning of ex-confederate planter aristocrats
D dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Question #2
A excessive government regulation
B overproduction
C high taxes
D high land prices
Question #3
A meatpacking
B steel
C textiles
D railroads
Question #4
A resulted in the first federal intervention on behalf of labor
B aroused public opposition against labor and contributed to the decline of the Knights of Labor
C discouraged immigrants from seeking employment in the United States
D opened the way for the peaceful settlement of labor disputes by collective bargaining
Question #5
A rejecting utopian goals for immediate economic objectives
B organizing skilled and minority workers
C economic goals such as higher pay and shorter work hours
D rejecting political goals in order to advance the economic interest of its members
Question #6
A the high birthrate of the urban population
B migration of African-Americans out of the deep South in the years following the Civil War
C migration from America’s rural areas
D immigration from Europe
Question #7
A order
B competition
C government intervention
D opportunity
Question #8
A government land grants to railroads were illegal
B the due process clause of the Constitution did not apply to CEO’s of large corporations
C corporations were entitled to the protection of the 14th Amendment
D the principle of limited liability was unconstitutional
Question #9
A the reestablishment of the pre-Civil War social and economic order
B adoption of the northern model of industrial growth, coupled with the legend of the graceful Old South
C making reparations for slavery and extending full civil rights to the freedmen
D an emphasis on diversified agricultural growth
Question #10
A socializing the major industries that made up the largest segment of the American economy
B regulating trade between sections to benefit all equally
C surrounding control over public policy to private interests
D letting government solve economic and social problems
Question #11
A a process of natural selection
B being in the right place at the right time
C free competition
D God’s blessing
Question #12
A removal of federal troops from the South
B To revoke the Civil Rights Act of 1875
C Federal aid for southern railroads
D Appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet
Question #13
A restore the institution of legalized slavery in the South
B open economic opportunities to blacks
C build up the Republican Party in the South
D put blacks in an economically dependent position
Question #14
A Mississippi
B Maryland
C Virginia
D South Carolina
Question #15
A insisted that the former slavers be recognized as citizens of the United States
B imprisoned the civilian and military leaders of the former Confederacy
C redistributed Confederate lands to the freedmen
D refused to appropriate money for the continued presence of Union troops in the South
Question #16
A progressive and beneficial to the South, though run by people who had generally not held power in the South prior to the Civi War
B corrupt and inefficient
C worse than the governments that ruled the South prior to Reconstruction, and run by Northerners who had no real interest in the region
D effective though flawed in that African-Americans were excluded from the Reconstruction governments
Question #17
A the ratification of the 13th Amendment
B The Emancipation Proclamation
C the adoption of the 14th Amendment
D due process clause of the Constitution
Question #18
A citizenship
B religious liberty
C land ownership
D the right to vote
Question #19
A economic independence
B training in industrial crafts
C schools
D land
Question #20
A necessary and proper
B elastic
C Two-Thirds
D Three-Fifths