U.s. History Test 1

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Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan would have allowed a state to hold local and state elections and be readmitted back into the Union once

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The number of voters who swore loyalty to the Union and it's laws equaled 10% of the number of people from that state who votes in the 1860 presidential election

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After the Civil War ended, the _______ for a few short years attempted to aid the freed slaves by providing such services such schooling, overseeing work contracts, and trying to locate family members.

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Freedman's Bureau

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After the war, Ulysses S. Grant served two terms as president, during which.

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Corruption scandals involving members of his administration marred his presidency

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During Andrew Johnson's presidency, Secretary of State William Seward worked hard to secure the American purchsse of _____ in 1867

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Alaska

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During the 1872 election, _______ supported Horace Greeley against President Grant.

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Liberal Republicans

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During the Civil War, the Reconstruction plan laid out in the Wade-Davis Bill was strongly supported by:

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Radical Republicans

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During the congressional election of 1866, President Andrew Johnson _____.

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Embarrassed himself on the campaign trail, hurting his ability to help his congressional allies gain control of Congress

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During the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, amendments to theU.S. Constitution were passed authorizing all of the following, except:

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the full right to vote for adult women

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________ had promised refugee slaves in Georgia "40 acres and a mule" as land was set aside for their use after Union forces rampaged through Georgia.

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General William Sherman

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In 1867, the U.S. government purchased Alaska from _______.

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Russia

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Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner and Pennsylvania Representative Thaddeus Stevens were leaders of the _____ in Congress during Reconstruction.

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Radical Republicans

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The ____ granted citizenship to all individuals born in the United States and guaranteed citizens equal protection of the laws.

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Fourteenth Amendment

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The 1876 presidential election became an electoral crisis because ______

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Disputed returns came in grin a few states and each side claimed chicory in Electoral College

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The ______ suffered most politics grin the panic of 1873

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Republicans

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The author of the textbook chapter on Reconstruction views ______ as the starting point for Reconstruction.

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Issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The Compromise of 1877 settled the 1876 election dispute by declaring Republican Rutherford B. Hayes president in exchange for _____

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The withdrawal of the federal troops grin a few Southen states which led to the collapse of Republican_controlled state government there

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The Crédit Mobiler scandal involved _____.

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Railroad company executives bribing members of Congress

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The Santo Domingo Affair involved a gained effort to _____.

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Annex the island of Santo Domingo

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The so-called "black code" _____.

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Greatly reduced the freedom of the freed slaves

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Which constitutional amendment outlaws slavery across the United States?

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Thirteenth

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Which constitutional amendment made it illegal for state to forbid the right to vote on grounds of race or color?

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Fifteenth

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Which of the following is NOT true about Andrew Johnson?

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He was the first U.S. president to be removed from office by the U.S. Senate.

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Which of the following is NOT true about the sharecropping system that emerged in the late -19th century south?

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Sharecroppers owned the land they worked on.

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Which of the following were Not members of the Republican Party coalition in the South after the Civil War?

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Redeemers

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Which post-Civil War president's administration was especially noted for a large number of corruption scandals?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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As a result of the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867:

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Arapaho Cheyenne Apache and Kiowa agreed to be assigned to reservations in the Dakota Territory

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And the Battle of Little Bighorn Colonel George Custer_____.

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Was killed along with over 200 of his men

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Buffalo soldiers were African Americans who

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Served as regular US Army troops stationed in the old west

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Compared to the eastern states Western States and territories were____ woman suffrage

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More likely to enact

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Despite being promised the land of the great Sioux reservation "for as long as the grass shall grow," whites began to encroach upon Sioux-held lands in the Black Hills area after

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Gold was discovered there

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During the Civil War,_____ under the command of John Chivington massacred over 200 unarmed Cheyenne men women and children

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Colorado volunteer militiamen

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During the Civil War, the_____ Act passed by Congress allowed Farmers to obtain 160 Acres out of the public domain for free provided they cultivate the land for 5 years

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Homestead

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During the Civil War, Jesse James was

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A Confederate guerilla fighter

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In 1890,_______ was the scene of a tragic massacre in which over 200 Sioux men women and children had surrendered to US Army Troopers that were fired upon by nervous guards after a rifle accidentally discharged

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Wounded Knee

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In addition to Native Americans,________ had much of their land in the old west taken away and redistributed

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Mexicans

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In Western mining towns the vast majority of the women were

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Domestic servants

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Large-scale mining operations in the west tended to be

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Harmful to the environment of Western States and territories

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At the following, Chinese workers in the old west were most involved in

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Railroad construction

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Of the following, who was not a noted Outlaw of the Old West?

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"Buffalo Bill" Cody

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Of the following which were excluded from Legally immigration in the United States starting in 1882?

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Chinese

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________ sought to establish African American communities in Oklahoma after the Civil War..

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E.P. McCabe

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The ________ became a major agent for solidifying Anglo control over South Texas by murdering thousands of Tejanos and aiding in the seizure of land by white farmers and Ranchers

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Texas Rangers

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The were African American migrants who left the South primarily for Kansas after the end of reconstruction

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Exodusters

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The Comstock Lode of Western Nevada was the first major discovery of vast amount of _______ in the West after the Civil War

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Silver

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The main demand for the meat from Texas Cattle proved to be

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The growing metropolises of the midwestern and northeastern us

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The major reason for the widespread Buffalo Slaughter that took place in the west during the 1880s was

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The US government believed that it would be an effective tactic to force nomadic Plains Indians onto reservations by denying them the major component of their livelihood

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Under the terms of the _____ passed by Congress in 1887 reservation land was distributed two individual Native American families and individuals with the remaining land sold off

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Sawed Serveralty Act

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________Was a female frontierswoman and Scout in the old west noted for her horse riding gun shooting and storytelling still skills as a part of Buffalo Bill Cody's wild west shows

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Martha "Calamity Jane" Burke

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_____Was a female out all of the old west who gained Fame as a stagecoach robber, cattle rustler, and horse thief during the 1870s and 1880s.

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Belle Starr

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Was the Native American who led a band of fellow Apaches against the US Army after refusing to return to life on an Arizona reservation ultimately to surrender in 1886

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Geronimo

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Advocates of New South ideology favored

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The soutg diversifying its economy by promoting industrialization

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After the decline of the Knights of Labor the _______ led by Samuel Gompers emerged a less radical but more effective labor union organizing the nation's skilled workers along craft lines

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American Federation of Labor

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Among the various "old immigrants" to America, the ____ were often despised by Anglo Americans when they first immigranted to America, but were gradually accepted as "white" by the early 20th century in the midst of the "new immigrant" wave

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Irish

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Black Friday refers to the stock market crash that occurred after

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Jay Gould try to Corner the gold market

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Coming after the assassination of President James Garfield the Pendleton Act was

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A law that reformed the civil service system

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_____ dominated the American steel industry during the Gilded Age

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Andrew Carnegie

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Who dominated the American oil industry during the Gilded Age

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John D Rockefeller

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During the Gilded age's who became the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms

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Grover Cleveland

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Free silver Advocates hope that by adding silver to the money supply

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None of these are correct

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Immigrants primarily from _______ came to America during the new immigration wave of the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen-hundreds

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Southern and Eastern Europe

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In 1882, laborers from _____ were barred from Legally entering the United States

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China

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In addition to Europe, a huge number of migrants looked for work in American industrial cities came from

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Rural areas of the United States

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Jay Gould change Fame as a Wheeler and dealer in the _____ industry

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Railroad

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Louis Sullivan and other American Architects helped to transform the landscape of modern American cities by creating the first

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Skyscrapers

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Of the following the _______ were not a faction of the Republican Party during the Gilded Age

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Redeemers

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Of the following which form of transportation was most used by American Urban residents during the Gilded Age?

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Electric streetcars

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Of the following, who was a major proponent of "New South" ideology?

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Henry Grady

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Of the following, who was not a Republican president after the Civil War

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Grover Cleveland

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What refers to the process of controlling an industry by dominating a main level of production through mergers and other means to control as much market share as possible

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Horizontal integration

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Samuel Gompers, the longtime head of the American Federation of Labor (AFL),

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Accepted capitalism but wanted organized labor to have a greater share in the rewards of the system

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Support of the populist was strongest among the Nation's ______ during the 1890s

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Farmers

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The most popular spectator sport during the Gilded Age proved to be

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Baseball

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The robber barons of the Gilded Age were the

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Titans of Industry who amassed tremendous wealth

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The violence in Chicago's Haymarket Square known as the Haymarket Affair contributed to

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The decline of the Knights of Labor as an influential labor union

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The violent ______ strike taking place in 1877 proved to be the First National Labor stoppage caused by coordinated efforts by laborers

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Great Railroad