APUSH Test Review - Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Question 1

How many years were the railroad companies given to complete the transcontinental railroad?

Accepted Answer

15 years

Question 2

What was one of the solutions to the Native American "problem" that was actually implemented?

Accepted Answer

Set up "boarding schools" to Americanize them

Question 3

What was the Crop-Lien system designed to do?

Accepted Answer

keep poor, landless farmers (mostly black) in debt

Question 4

Populists were mostly made up of:

Accepted Answer

farmers upset with power the wealthy had over their earnings

Question 5

In 1865, these state laws deprived blacks of civil rights and returned them to near slavery:

Accepted Answer

Black Codes

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true of President Garfield?

Accepted Answer

He was in favor of more patronage jobs

Question 7

The Treaty of Kanagawa opened up trade with which country?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 8

This president tried to enforce Reconstruction and "peace policy" with Native Americans:

Accepted Answer

Grant

Question 9

Which statement best describes where immigrants lived in major US cities?

Accepted Answer

They were unofficially segregated

Question 10

The Pendleton Act required people seeking federal jobs to:

Accepted Answer

Take competitive exams

Question 11

Which of the following was part of education reform during Period 6?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 12

What was the name of the southern state and local govts that fought against Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Redemption governments (redeemers)

Question 13

He took Darwin's theory and applied it to societies:

Accepted Answer

Herbert Spencer

Question 14

Anarchists were executed for conspiring to kill police officers in the:

Accepted Answer

Haymarket Square Riot

Question 15

Which president was a two termer, BUT his two terms were not consecutive?

Accepted Answer

Grover Cleveland

Question 16

All of the following were traits of the majority of the new wave of immigrants except:

Accepted Answer

came from the north and west of Europe

Question 17

Carnegie cited this for the reason that he wanted to give his money back to help society.

Accepted Answer

Gospel of Wealth

Question 18

What was the most important effect of the transcontinental railroad?

Accepted Answer

Living out west was much more feasible than ever before

Question 19

Which group of people would most definitely support the free coinage of silver?

Accepted Answer

Populists

Question 20

His dime novel stories promoted the "Rags to Riches" of making it big with hard work:

Accepted Answer

Horatio Alger

Question 21

The long-standing president of the Knights of Labor was:

Accepted Answer

Terrence Powderly

Question 22

A leader of the Radical Republicans was:

Accepted Answer

Charles Sumner

Question 23

Overall, the presidents in the Gilded Age regarding the economy:

Accepted Answer

Were generally ineffective

Question 24

What was a main reason William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential election of 1896?

Accepted Answer

Big business backed McKinley and financed his campaign

Question 25

This Republican faction was fully in favor of the Spoils System:

Accepted Answer

Stalwarts

Question 26

The Crime of '73 was:

Accepted Answer

the government not minting silver into currency

Question 27

What was not necessarily a part of the Populist party's platform?

Accepted Answer

government ownership of steel industry

Question 28

The last major victory for the Plains Indians was

Accepted Answer

Little Big Horn

Question 29

Laissez fair is:

Accepted Answer

Little to no government involvement in the economy

Question 30

Which of the following were not part of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis?

Accepted Answer

the frontier was settled due to much federal government help

Question 31

The Granger movement was most dedicated to:

Accepted Answer

challenging railroad monopolies

Question 32

A writer who became an activist to improve the treatment of Native Americans

Accepted Answer

Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 33

What was an actual consequence of the "separate, but equal" ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Accepted Answer

Blacks were given worse schooling

Question 34

The last Indian tribes were forced onto reservations after the events at:

Accepted Answer

Wounded Knee

Question 35

What late 19th Century act was intended to prevent monopolies from occurring?

Accepted Answer

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 36

What best explains why organized strikes by unskilled workers failed?

Accepted Answer

The new wave of immigrants filled in the job openings

Question 37

The law that was made permanent by the 14th Amendment:

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 38

Which of the following groups of people would most likely support the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Accepted Answer

Nativists

Question 39

He used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil industry:

Accepted Answer

Rockefeller

Question 40

He made a fortune in banking and investment:

Accepted Answer

J.P. Morgan

Question 41

Where were most European immigrants processed during the early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 42

This president stopped the Pullman strike by attaching mail-cars to the trains

Accepted Answer

Cleveland

Question 43

A fake construction company that lead to a major railroad scandal for Grant

Accepted Answer

Credit Mobilier

Question 44

Jacob Coxey called for:

Accepted Answer

government public works jobs

Question 45

What was the goal of the Dawes Severalty Act for Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Assimilate into dominant American culture

Question 46

How did southern whites disenfranchise black voters?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 47

Which industry was the leading employer in United States during the 1860s- 1880s?

Accepted Answer

Railroad

Question 48

In the South, African Americans were:

Accepted Answer

still burdened by limitations on their rights

Question 49

The first national strike in US history was the

Accepted Answer

Railroad Strike of 1877

Question 50

What was not a reason why Americans wanted land that Natives Americans were on out west?

Accepted Answer

Have a place to move the 'new' immigrants away from the east

Question 51

He was the manager of the Homestead plant who hired the Pinkertons:

Accepted Answer

Henry Clay Frick

Question 52

All of these would be examples Samuel Gompers' "bread and butter" approach to unionizing except

Accepted Answer

overthrowing capitalists

Question 53

Which of the following is an example of vertical integration?

Accepted Answer

Buying trains and building track to transport your oil

Question 54

What best explains why this is this period often dubbed as "The Gilded Age"?

Accepted Answer

America looked great, but there were still deep problems

Question 55

True or False: The American Federation of Labor actively included women and black laborers.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 56

Which of the following groups of people would most likely endorse Social Darwinism?

Accepted Answer

Wealthy businessowners

Question 57

Which invention greatly contributed to the end of the cowboy era?

Accepted Answer

barbed wire

Question 58

Put the presidents in chronological order from earliest to most recent:

Accepted Answer

Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes

Question 59

Buying out all the other companies in one part of an industry so that there was no competition

Accepted Answer

horizontal integration

Question 60

This cartoon depicts political bosses, leaders of political machines, that did all except:

Accepted Answer

led riots through cities

Question 61

The need for skilled people to work in the lumber industry lead to an influx of which people?

Accepted Answer

Scandinavians

Question 62

They resisted settling on reservations, fleeing to Canada until tracked down by the US army

Accepted Answer

Nez Perce

Question 63

He was the first African American senator:

Accepted Answer

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Question 64

What was the importance of the Munn v Illinois ruling?

Accepted Answer

states could regulate private industry

APUSH Test Review - Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

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APUSH Test Review - Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

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