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Question 1

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In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant


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entered the White House with no political experience.


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entered the White House with no political experience.


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Question 2
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All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT
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President Ulysses Grant.


Correct Answer:

President Ulysses Grant.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #32 Page: 424

Question 3
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Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #73 Page: 421

Question 4
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As sharecroppers, the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.
Answer

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False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #75 Page: 423

Question 5
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Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #91 Page: 439

Question 6
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In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because
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they were not fit enough to survive in the market.


Correct Answer:

they were not fit enough to survive in the market.


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Question 7
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In his books, Horatio Alger


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emphasized the value of personal character in business.


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emphasized the value of personal character in business.


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Page: 486

Question 8
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Social Darwinism was designed to eliminate competition in the marketplace.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #66 Page: 481

Question 9
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A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was


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the moving assembly line.


Correct Answer:

the moving assembly line.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #15 Page: 476

Question 10
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During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by
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All these answers are correct.


Correct Answer:

All these answers are correct.


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Question 11
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In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?


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steel
Correct Answer:

steel
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Question 12
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In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of
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a single land tax to replace all other taxes.


Correct Answer:

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #32 Page: 486

Question 13
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In the Homestead strike of 1892, the Pinkertons were brought in on the side of labor.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #83 Page: 495

Question 14
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Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True False

incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #70 Page: 485

Question 15

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All the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT
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Atlanta.
Correct Answer:

Atlanta.
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Question 16
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In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,


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one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.


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one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.


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Question 17
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The Haymarket Square riot of 1886


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resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.


Correct Answer:

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #45 Page: 495

Question 18
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During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States
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increased significantly.
Correct Answer:

increased significantly.
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Question 19
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In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT
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the automobile industry.


Correct Answer:

the automobile industry.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #8 Page: 473

Question 20
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Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #68 Page: 485

Question 21
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Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,


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imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust. imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.

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Question 22
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In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon


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led the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.


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led the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #31 Page: 485

Question 23
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The history of American business organization saw the "pool" replace the "trust."
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: [None Given] False

incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #61 Page: 479

Question 24
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In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations


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led to a diversification of research interests.


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led to a diversification of research interests.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #13 Page: 475

Question 25
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Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.

Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #67 Page: 485

Question 26
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Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #49 Page: 444

Question 27
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In the 1870s, nearly one out of every eighty miners was killed on the job.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #64 Page: 453

Question 28
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The western working class was highly multiracial and stratified along racial lines.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #61 Page: 451

Question 29
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Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns


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often found work doing domestic tasks.


Correct Answer:

often found work doing domestic tasks.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #19 Page: 452

Question 30
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By the end of the nineteenth century, the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #60 Page: 451

President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted. Answer


Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #67 Page: 418

Question 2
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The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.

Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #61 Page: 415

Question 3
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In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking Answer Selected Answer: the crime of lynching. Correct Answer: the crime of lynching. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #52 Page: 439

Question 4
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During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to

Answer Selected Answer: southern white Republicans. Correct Answer: southern white Republicans. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #19 Page: 419

Question 5
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The "New South creed" was expounded by whites, not blacks. Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #88 Page: 434

Question 6
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By 1880, more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the United States.

Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #55 Page: 447

Question 7
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In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from Answer Selected Answer: barbed wire. Correct Answer: barbed wire. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #42 Page: 467

Question 8
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Hamlin Garland wrote novels celebrating the hope and spirit of the American West.

Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 16 #82 Page: 468

Question 9
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The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop Answer Selected Answer: All these answers are correct. Correct Answer: All these answers are correct. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #20 Page: 453

Question 10
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

Answer Selected Answer: All these answers are correct. Correct Answer: All these answers are correct. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #15 Page: 451

Question 11
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The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in Answer Selected Answer: Pennsylvania. Correct Answer: Pennsylvania. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #9 Page: 473

Question 12
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Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892? Answer Selected Answer: The Amalgamated trade union won the strike. Correct Answer: The Amalgamated trade union won the strike. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #48 Page: 495

Question 13
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Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry? Answer Selected Answer: James J. Hill Correct Answer: James J. Hill Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #19 Page: 478

Question 14

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Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels. Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #68 Page: 485

Question 15
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The Knights of Labor were followed by the American Federation of Labor as the most significant national labor union. Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #80 Page: 494

Question 16
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Neither Henry George nor Edward Bellamy was an advocate of revolution.

Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #72 Page: 486

Question 17
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In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in Answer Selected Answer: Europe. Correct Answer: Europe. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #10 Page: 473

Question 18
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The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873.

Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #73 Page: 487

Question 19
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Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union. Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #81 Page: 494

Question 20
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In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers Answer

Selected Answer: All these answers are correct. Correct Answer: All these answers are correct. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #34 Page: 489

Question 21
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Social Darwinism was an ideology that had its critics, but it did have a lot to do with the realities of the late nineteenth-century corporate economy. Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #65 Page: 481

Question 22
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By 1900, some workers had the legal right to compensation for injuries suffered on the job. Answer

Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #85 Page: 496

Question 23
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The Haymarket Square riot of 1886 Answer Selected Answer: resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists. Correct Answer: resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #45 Page: 495

Question 24
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In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe. Answer

Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #74 Page: 489

Question 25
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The great railroad strike of 1877 Answer Selected Answer: was launched in response to a wage cut. Correct Answer: was launched in response to a wage cut. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #41 Page: 493

Question 26
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The Knights of Labor Answer

Selected Answer: began as a secret fraternal organization. Correct Answer: began as a secret fraternal organization. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #42 Page: 493

Question 27
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Carnegie Steel was a good example of vertical integration. Answer Selected Answer: True Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #59 Page: 479

Question 28
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A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was Answer

Selected Answer: the moving assembly line. Correct Answer: the moving assembly line. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #15 Page: 476

Question 29
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Most of the late nineteenth-century business tycoons began their careers in poverty or lowerclass circumstances. Answer Selected Answer: False Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #63 Page: 480

Question 1 1 out of 1 points During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired Answer Selected Answer: Alaska.

Correct Answer: Alaska. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #34 Page: 425 Question 2 1 out of 1 points At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, Answer Selected Answer: Johnson was acquitted by one vote. Correct Answer: Johnson was acquitted by one vote. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #18 Page: 418 Question 3 1 out of 1 points In the 1860s, Black Codes were Answer Selected Answer: designed to give whites control over freedmen. Correct Answer: designed to give whites control over freedmen. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #11 Page: 416 Question 4 1 out of 1 points After the Civil War, most southern black women Answer Selected Answer: engaged in income-producing activities. Correct Answer: engaged in income-producing activities.

Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #30 Page: 424 Question 5 0 out of 1 points During Reconstruction, black family roles soon came to resemble similar roles within white families. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 15 #76 Page: 424 Question 6 1 out of 1 points Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio? Answer Selected Answer: John D. Rockefeller Correct Answer: John D. Rockefeller Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #2 Page: 479 Question 7 0 out of 1 points In 1917, automobile production in the United States Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: saw nearly five million cars on American roads. Response Feedback: incorrect

Brinkley - Chapter 17 #11 Page: 474 Question 8 0 out of 1 points Samuel Gompers was the leader of the Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: American Federation of Labor. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #44 Page: 494 Question 9 0 out of 1 points Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner could both be called Social Darwinists. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #64 Page: 481 Question 10 0 out of 1 points The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company, Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #49 Page: 496 Question 11 0 out of 1 points

The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #79 Page: 493 Question 12 0 out of 1 points The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #73 Page: 487 Question 13 0 out of 1 points In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers, which did not exist. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #52 Page: 496-497 Question 14 0 out of 1 points The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society. Response Feedback:

incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #30 Page: 485 Question 15 0 out of 1 points By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: None of these answers is correct. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #37 Page: 490 Question 16 0 out of 1 points In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: a single land tax to replace all other taxes. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #32 Page: 486 Question 17 0 out of 1 points The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in response to the needs of the steel industry. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #54 Page: 473

Question 18 0 out of 1 points Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892? Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: The Amalgamated trade union won the strike. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #48 Page: 495 Question 19 0 out of 1 points Henry Ford built the first gasoline-driven motor vehicle in America. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #56 Page: 474 Question 20 0 out of 1 points Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #36 Page: 490 Question 21 0 out of 1 points Social Darwinism was designed to eliminate competition in the marketplace. Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: incorrect

[None Given] False

Brinkley - Chapter 17 #66 Page: 481 Question 22 0 out of 1 points In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #74 Page: 489 Question 23 0 out of 1 points Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #68 Page: 485 Question 24 0 out of 1 points By 1900, factory work in the United States required ever-increasing levels of skill. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #76 Page: 491

Question 25 0 out of 1 points Originally, the American Federation of Labor was not willing to engage in strikes. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: False Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #82 Page: 495 Question 26 0 out of 1 points Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 16 #49 Page: 444 Question 27 0 out of 1 points The Rocky Mountain School of painting Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 16 #26 Page: 455 Question 28 0 out of 1 points During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie" Answer Selected Answer: [None Given]

Correct Answer: referred to Chinese indentured servants. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 16 #7 Page: 447 Question 29 0 out of 1 points In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman. Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 16 #27 Page: 456 Question 30 0 out of 1 points During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle industry became increasingly corporate. Answer Selected Answer: [None Given] Correct Answer: True Response Feedback: incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 16 #69 Page: 454Question

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In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States Answer Selected Answer: saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

Correct Answer: saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth. Response Feedback: correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #1

During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired alaska


Answer

Question 2
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The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.


Answer false

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The Freedmens Bureau was a civilian agency under the control of the State Department.
Answer False

Question 4
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In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South decreased for both blacks and whites
Answer

Question 5
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The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote, but he did not win the presidency. True
Answer

Question 6
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The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that


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racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."
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Question 7

During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,


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. ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.


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The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True

Question 9
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Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln.
Answer false

Question 10
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The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of


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suffrage.

Question 11
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Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.
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Question 12

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical Republicans


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proposed abolishing the Court.


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Question 13
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Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.

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In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system
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encouraged the planting of cash crops.

Question 15
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The Tenure of Office Act


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was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.

Question 16
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African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.
Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 17
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As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,


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Radicals sought a range of punishments for white southerners.

Question 18
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During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to


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southern white Republicans.

Question 19
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Among other ideas, Booker T. Washington


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Favored industrial over classical 0 out of 1 points

All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT
Answer

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In 1865, southern blacks defined "freedom" as


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All these answers are correct.

Question 22
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During Reconstruction, the southern school system


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eventually reached 40 percent of all black children.

Question 23
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The Freedmen's Bureau


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distributed food to millions of southern blacks.

Question 24
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By the time of his death, Lincoln's sympathies had shifted from essential allegiance to the moderate wing of his party to casting his lot with the Radical Republicans.
Answer Selected Answer: False 1 out of 1 points

Question 25

Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.
Answer

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In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" as


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controlling their future without northern interference.

Question 27
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Jim Crow laws


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imposed a system of state-supported segregation.

Question 28
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President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to the
Answer

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number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.

Question 29
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After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by separating themselves from white institutions.
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Question 30

In the 1860s, Black Codes were


Answer Correct Answer:

designed to give whites control over freedmen.

Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #85 Page: 431

Question 2
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In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington


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called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.


Correct Answer:

called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #47 Page: 436

Question 3
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"Scalawags" were southerners who moved north after the Civil War.
Answer Correct Answer: k: False

Question 4
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President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #67 Page: 418

Question 5
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After the Civil War, most poor rural southerners relied on credit from
Answer Selected Answer:

country stores.
Correct Answer:

country stores.
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #28 Page: 422

Question 6
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In late-nineteenth-century southern politics, economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #92 Page: 440

Question 7
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Black sharecropping
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was a very common occupation of former slaves.


Correct Answer:

was a very common occupation of former slaves.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #25 Page: 423

Question 8
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The Panic of 1873 was the worst the country had faced to that point in its history.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #80 Page: 425

Question 9
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Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi were among the first states to comply with congressional Reconstruction.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #66 Page: 417

Question 10
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Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871


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was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.


Correct Answer:

was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #37 Page: 426

Question 11
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At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,


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Johnson was acquitted by one vote.


Correct Answer:

Johnson was acquitted by one vote.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #18 Page: 418

Question 12
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In the 1860s, Black Codes were


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designed to give whites control over freedmen.


Correct Answer:

designed to give whites control over freedmen.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #11 Page: 416

Question 13
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At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was
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almost 4 million.

Question 14
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The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of


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suffrage.
Correct Answer:

suffrage.
Response Feedback:

correct

Brinkley - Chapter 15 #14 Page: 417

Question 15
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All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT
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President Ulysses Grant.


Correct Answer:

President Ulysses Grant.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #32 Page: 424

Question 16
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During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked


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significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.
Correct Answer:

significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #27 Page: 422

Question 17
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The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that


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racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations." racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."

Correct Answer:

Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #48 Page: 436-437

Question 18

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President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to the
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number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government. number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government. correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #7 Page: 414

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Question 19
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The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in a resounding victory for the Republicans.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #65 Page: 416

Question 20
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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he


Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Correct Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #17 Page: 418

Question 21
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Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True

Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #53 Page: 411

Question 22
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Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #73 Page: 421

Question 23
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Advocates of the "New South"


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promoted southern industry and railroad development.


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promoted southern industry and railroad development.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #43 Page: 431

Question 24
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During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired


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Alaska.
Correct Answer:

Alaska.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #34 Page: 425

Question 25
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The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True False

Question 26
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The most numerous Republicans in the South were the black freedmen.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True

Question 27
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During Reconstruction, though the black share of profits were rising, the total profits of southern agriculture were declining.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True

Question 28
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During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agriculture


Answer Selected Answer:

saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.
Correct Answer:

saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.

Question 29
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In the South during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,


Answer Correct Answer:

textile manufacturing increased ninefold.


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Question 30
1 out of 1 points

In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.

Question 1

1 out of 1 points

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
Answer Selected Answer:

the crime of lynching.


Correct Answer:

the crime of lynching.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #52 Page: 439

Question 2
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Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if


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the federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist blacks. the federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist blacks.

Correct Answer:

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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #41 Page: 429-430

Question 3
1 out of 1 points

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln


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involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration. involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.

Correct Answer:

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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #9 Page: 415

Question 4
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In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln


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insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.


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insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #1 Page: 412

Question 5
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As president, Andrew Johnson


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offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States. offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.

Correct Answer:

Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #10 Page: 415-416

Question 6
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In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant


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entered the White House with no political experience.


Correct Answer:

entered the White House with no political experience.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #31 Page: 424

Question 7
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Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.
Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback:

True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #87 Page: 434

Question 8
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After the Civil War, most poor rural southerners relied on credit from
Answer Selected Answer:

country stores.
Correct Answer:

country stores.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #28 Page: 422

Question 9
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During Reconstruction, fedeemed" governments of thee


Answer Selected Answer:

northern white veterans who moved to the South.


Correct Answer:

northern white veterans who moved to the South.


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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #20 Page: 419

Question 10
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Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True False

incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 15 #81 Page: 425

Question 11
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The Fourteenth Amendment


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gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.


Correct Answer:

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #12 Page: 416

Question 12
1 out of 1 points

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agriculture


Answer Selected Answer:

saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.
Correct Answer:

saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #45 Page: 434

Question 13
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In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" as


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controlling their future without northern interference.


Correct Answer:

controlling their future without northern interference.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #4 Page: 413

Question 14
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After the Civil War, most southern black women


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engaged in income-producing activities.

Question 15
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National support for Reconstruction was undermined by


Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.

Question 16
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The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that


Answer Selected Answer:

racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."
1 out of 1 points

Question 17

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of


Answer Selected Answer:

suffrage.

Question 18
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Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.
Answer Selected Answer: False 1 out of 1 points

Question 19

During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,


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ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.

Question 20
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The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.
Answer Selected Answer: True 1 out of 1 points

Question 21

Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.

Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #53 Page: 411

Question 22
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"Scalawags" were southerners who moved north after the Civil War.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #68 Page: 419

Question 23
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During Reconstruction, southern African American officeholders


Answer Selected Answer:

underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.

Question 24
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In most parts of the South, the "Redeemer" government constituted a genuinely new ruling class.
Answer Selected Answer: True 1 out of 1 points

Question 25

During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked


Answer Selected Answer:

significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.
Correct Answer:

significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.

Question 26
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The "redeemed" governments of the South


Answer

Selected Answer:

saw an end to occupation by federal troops.

Question 27
1 out of 1 points

In the South during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,


Answer Selected Answer:

textile manufacturing increased ninefold.

Question 28
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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he


Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.

Question 29
1 out of 1 points

African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.
Answer Selected Answer: False 1 out of 1 points

Question 30

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington


Answer Selected Answer:

called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

uestion 1
1 out of 1 points

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln


Answer Selected Answer:

involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration. involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.

Correct Answer:

Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #9 Page: 415

Question 2
1 out of 1 points

During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired


Answer Selected Answer:

Alaska.
Correct Answer:

Alaska.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #34 Page: 425

Question 3
1 out of 1 points

Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #53 Page: 411

Question 4
1 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, per capita income for southerners


Answer Selected Answer:

rose for blacks and declined for whites.


Correct Answer:

rose for blacks and declined for whites.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #26 Page: 422

Question 5
1 out of 1 points

In most parts of the South, the "Redeemer" government constituted a genuinely new ruling class.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #84 Page: 431

Question 6
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Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #85 Page: 431

Question 7
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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he


Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Correct Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #17 Page: 418

Question 8
1 out of 1 points

Jim Crow laws


Answer Selected Answer:

imposed a system of state-supported segregation.


Correct Answer:

imposed a system of state-supported segregation.


Response Feedback:

correct

Brinkley - Chapter 15 #50 Page: 438

Question 9
1 out of 1 points

National support for Reconstruction was undermined by


Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Correct Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #38 Page: 426-427

Question 10
1 out of 1 points

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of


Answer Selected Answer:

suffrage.
Correct Answer:

suffrage.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #14 Page: 417

Question 11
1 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,


Answer Selected Answer:

ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.


Correct Answer:

ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #24 Page: 421

Question 12
1 out of 1 points

Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #81 Page: 425

Question 13
1 out of 1 points

As president, Andrew Johnson


Answer Selected Answer:

offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States. offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.

Correct Answer:

Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #10 Page: 415-416

Question 14
1 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, southern African American officeholders


Answer Selected Answer:

underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.


Correct Answer:

underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #21 Page: 419

Question 15
1 out of 1 points

The Fourteenth Amendment


Answer Selected Answer:

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

Correct Answer:

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #12 Page: 416

Question 16
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Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871


Answer Selected Answer:

was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.


Correct Answer:

was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #37 Page: 426

Question 17
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The elections of 1876 saw


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the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.
Correct Answer:

the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.
Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #39 Page: 427

Question 18
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In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system
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encouraged the planting of cash crops.


Correct Answer:

encouraged the planting of cash crops.


Response Feedback:

correct

Brinkley - Chapter 15 #29 Page: 423

Question 19
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State expenditures by southern governments during Reconstruction were large, but only in comparison with the meager state budgets of the pre-Civil War years.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #71 Page: 420

Question 20
1 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, the southern school system


Answer Selected Answer:

eventually reached 40 percent of all black children.


Correct Answer:

eventually reached 40 percent of all black children.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #23 Page: 420

Question 21
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President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #67 Page: 418

Question 22
1 out of 1 points

During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to


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southern white Republicans.

Correct Answer:

southern white Republicans.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #19 Page: 419

Question 23
1 out of 1 points

The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.


Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: False False

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #63 Page: 416

Question 24
1 out of 1 points

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,


Answer Selected Answer:

Johnson was acquitted by one vote.


Correct Answer:

Johnson was acquitted by one vote.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #18 Page: 418

Question 25
1 out of 1 points

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that


Answer Selected Answer:

racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations." racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."

Correct Answer:

Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #48

Page: 436-437

Question 26
1 out of 1 points

In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" as


Answer Selected Answer:

controlling their future without northern interference.


Correct Answer:

controlling their future without northern interference.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #4 Page: 413

Question 27
1 out of 1 points

After the Civil War, most southern black women


Answer Selected Answer:

engaged in income-producing activities.


Correct Answer:

engaged in income-producing activities.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #30 Page: 424

Question 28
1 out of 1 points

Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback: True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #87 Page: 434

Question 29
1 out of 1 points

Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.
Answer

Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Response Feedback:

True True

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #89 Page: 435

Question 30
1 out of 1 points

In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
Answer Selected Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Correct Answer:

All these answers are correct.


Response Feedback:

correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #49 Page: 437-438

. In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.) 2. Who among the following did NOT make significant contributions to communication technology? ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Charles F. Brush) 3. Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was saw little development.) 4. The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was both A and B) 5. The open-hearth process of making steel ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was made the production of large dimension pieces possible.) 6. In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in)

7. All of the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Atlanta.) 8. In the late nineteenth century, the transportation needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the development of all of the following EXCEPT ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was the automobile company.) 9. The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Pennsylvania.) 10. In the 1870s, the internal combustion engine was developed in ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Europe.) 11. In 1917, automobile production in the United States ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was saw five million cars on American roads.) 12. Orville and Wilbur Wrights first successful airplane flight in 1903 ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was A and B) 13. In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was led to a diversification of research interests.) 14. Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry? ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was James J. Hill) 15. A key to Henry Fords success in mass production of automobiles was to ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was use interchangeable parts.) 16. In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was $290.) 17. In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States ... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was included the nations largest businesses.) 18. During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was both A and B) 19. The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was vertical integration) 20. The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was both A and B) 21. To John D. Rockefeller, the great curse of business in the late nineteenth century was ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was cutthroat competition.) 22. In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.) 23. In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was began their careers from positions of wealth.) 24. The social theory of Social Darwinism ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth.) 25. In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was racism and other prejudices held them back.) 26. In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Herbert Spencer.)

27. According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth, ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was the rich had great responsibilities to society.) 28. In his books, Horatio Alger ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was emphasized the value of personal character in business.) 29. The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.) 30. The late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.) 31. In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was a single land tax to replace all other taxes.) 32. Edward Bellamys 1888 book, Looking Backward ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.) 33. In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was both A and B) 34. During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Great Britain and northern Europe.) 35. Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.) 36. In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

... INCORRECT (The correct answer was state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers did not exist.) 37. In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories, ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.) 38. During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was increased significantly since 1865.) 39. The Molly Maguires were a militant ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was labor union in the coal industry.) 40. The great railroad strike of 1877 ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was was launched in response to a wage cut.) 41. The Knights of Labor ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was began as a secret fraternal organization.) 42. The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor were divided by their positions on ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was all of the above) 43. Samuel Gompers was the leader of the ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was American Federation of Labor.) 44. The Haymarket Square riot of 1886 ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.) 45. During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was both A and B) 46. In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur? ... INCORRECT

(The correct answer was steel) 47. Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead Strike of 1892? ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Hundred of guards hired by Homestead were defeated in a deadly battle with strikers.) 48. Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event? ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was Pullman strike) 49. The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company, ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy) 50. The Pullman strike of 1894 ... INCORRECT (The correct answer was saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.) 51. ... CORRECT

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