Unit 2 Review

Which of the following describes the African American experience in the Reconstruction-Era South?

• African Americans began to be elected to federal, state, and local governmental posts.

• Despite the passage of progressive new laws, racist attitudes prevented open access to employment, education, voting, and protection against violence.

• Sharecropping practices kept many African Americans in working conditions that weren’t a significant improvement over slavery.

• All of the above

What was the primary purpose of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War?

• To reinstate slavery in parts of the United States

• To fix damage done to buildings during the war

• To rebuild the southern economy and society

• To rebuild the depleted military

What new type of business organization permitted a small group of capitalists to control the stock of a large number of individual corporations without actually becoming one company? The term later came to refer generally to any huge economic concentration.

• trust

• cartel

• joint-stock company

• holding company

How might an advocate for women's rights react to the 15th amendment?

• It fails to ban racial discrimination

• Women still don't have to right to legally own their own property

• It fails to ban gender discriminations

• Women still were not seen as citizens of the United States

How did the Radical Republicans deal with the issues of Reconstruction?

• It required a majority of voters in each Confederate state to swear their allegiance to the US before rejoining the Union

• It required former Confederate states to include a ban on slavery in their state constitutions

• It prohibited Confederate officials and military leaders from voting or holding office

• All of the Above

Which of the following best describes the effectiveness of labor unions in the 1880s and 1890s:

• Labor unions grew to the point that they represented the majority of American industrial and agricultural workers.

• Labor unions struggled to gain enough membership to gain any meaningful attention.

• Labor unions were able to recruit impressive numbers of members, but had little success in challenging the unsafe and unfair practices of the companies and corporations that employed the members.

• Labor unions were able to use well-planned strikes to secure better wages and working conditions across most major United States industries.

If you were a southerner that supported the Republican party during Reconstruction which nickname would your Democratic neighbors refer to you as?

• Carpetbagger

• Copperhead

• Scalawag

• Confederate

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• Provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education

• To free slaves from Southern plantations

• To assist Confederate prisoners in returning home safely

• To ensure that white voters supported anti-slavery laws and policies

Standard Oil, having grown by purchasing its competitors is an example of what?

• Holding Company

• Corporation

• Trust

• Monopoly

To which amendment does the following excerpt belong?

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States ...

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• None of the Above