Modules 1.1-2.2 Practice Questions CLEP US History II.

Which of the following best describes the experiences of most recently freed people following Reconstruction?

(A) They obtained land from the Freedmen's Bureau.

(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers. correct

(C) They established large cooperative farms.

(D) They migrated to Northern urban areas and worked as unskilled laborers.

(E) They were forced to migrate to marginally fertile lands in the western territories.

(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers. correct

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for

(A) temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy

(B) federal monetary support for the resettlement of African Americans in Africa

(C) property-holding and voting rights for African Americans

(D) implementation of anti-African American vagrancy laws in the South

(E) lenient readmission of the formerly Confederate states to the Union

(A) temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy

Which of the following occurred as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

(A) Southern Democrats threatened secession until Rutherford B. Hayes removed federal troops from the South.

(B) Hayes rewarded Southern supporters by backing a plan for a railroad across Florida.

(C) Hayes rewarded Northern supporters by promising to provide government aid for factory construction.

(D) Hayes ordered more federal troops into the South.

(E) Hayes compromised with Southern opponents removing federal troops from the South and appointing a Southerner to his cabinet.

(E) Hayes compromised with Southern opponents removing federal troops from the South and appointing a Southerner to his cabinet.

During Reconstruction, Southern Blacks typically did which of the following?

(A) Worked as day laborers in towns and cities.

(B) Migrated northward, exercising their new freedom.

(C) Owned and worked small farms.

(D) Worked in mines and factories.

(E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers.

(E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers.

Section I of the Fourteenth Amendment is significant because it

(A) outlaws slavery

(B) restates the promises of the Bill of Rights

(C) reaffirms the balance of power among the three branches of government

(D) establishes enforcement procedures to protect voting rights

(E) establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of the states

(E) establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of the states

The term "Radical Reconstruction" refers to

(A) Abraham Lincoln's plan to restore the Confederate States to the Union

(B) the program for the former Confederate States associated with Republicans led by Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens correct

(C) the federal policies put into effect by Andrew Johnson immediately after the Civil War

(D) the implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment after the Civil War

(E) the restoration of white conservative rule in the South after 1877

(B) the program for the former Confederate States associated with Republicans led by Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens correct

The Reconstruction era was effectively ended in the South with

(A) the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

(B) the disputed election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency

(C) the forcible removal of the carpetbaggers

(D) the government's legal eradication of the Ku Klux Klan

(E) integration of public accommodations was complete

(B) the disputed election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency

The book A Century of Dishonor, written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881, won wide fame by denouncing

(A) continued exploitation of the South by Northern businessmen

(B) the failure of state and federal governments to grant women the right to vote

(C) federal policy toward Native Americans (Indians)

(D) American foreign policy in Latin America

(E) monopolistic tactics of railroads

(C) federal policy toward Native Americans (Indians)

In the decade after the Civil War, the federal government's policy toward the Plains Indians focused on the

(A) creation of a network of churches to convert them to Christianity

(B) establishment of schools to promote tribal culture

(C) establishment of reservations

(D) forced migration of most Indian tribal groups to urban areas

(E) forced migration of Indian tribal groups from the Southeast to Oklahoma

(C) establishment of reservations

Which of the following constituted a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?

(A) The beginning of negotiations with individual Indian tribal groups

(B) The start of a removal policy

(C) The abandonment of the reservation system

(D) The admission of American Indians to United States citizenship

(E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members

(E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members

"The time came when we had to forsake our village at Like-a-fish-hook Bend, for the government wanted the Indians to become farmers. 'You should take allotments,' our [Bureau of Indian Affairs] agent would say. 'The big game is being killed off, and you must plant bigger fields or starve. The government will give you plows and cattle.' All knew that the agent's words were true, and little by little our village was broken up. In the summer of my sixteenth year nearly a third of my tribe left to take up allotments."

The paragraph above describes the effect of the

(A) Wade-Davis Bill

(B) Hatch Act

(C) Morrill Land Grant Act

(D) Homestead Act

(E) Dawes Severalty Act

(E) Dawes Severalty Act

In his interpretation of the historical development of the United States, Frederick Jackson Turner focused on the importance of the

(A) traditions of western European culture

(B) role of women in socializing children to become good citizens

(C) historical consequences of the enslavement of African American people

(D) conflict between capitalists and workers

(E) frontier experience in fostering democracy

(E) frontier experience in fostering democracy

The anticombination laws passed by numerous states in the late 1880s were a response to which of the following organizational innovations?

(A) The creation and growth of international cartels

(B) The development of industry-wide trade associations

(C) The joining of skilled and unskilled workers in industrial unions

(D) The formation of agricultural marketing cooperatives

(E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies

(E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies

Unionization efforts in the late-nineteenth century were countered by the

(A) establishment of the eight-hour workday

(B) passage of right-to-work laws

(C) increasing use of skilled labor

(D) use of federal troops to help end strikes

(E) establishment of factories in foreign countries by United States corporations

(D) use of federal troops to help end strikes

The Women's Trade Union League had most success in organizing

(A) secretaries

(B) telephone workers

(C) garment workers

(D) department store clerks

(E) slaughterhouse workers

(C) garment workers

Which of the following statements best describes the clothing industry in the late nineteenth century?

(A) Because of emphasis on domesticity, clothing manufacture became primarily a home industry.

(B) The discovery of new fabrics such as nylon and polyester led to more comfortable and functional clothing.

(C) The United States began to import increasing quantities of clothing, sending American industries into a depression.

(D) Styles became increasingly ornate and clothing became much more expensive.

(E) The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable.

(E) The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable.

Which of the following best states the goals of the "pure and simple unionism" advocated by Samuel Gompers?

(A) Labor unions should concentrate on increasing wages and benefits.

(B) Labor should organize industry's skilled and unskilled workers into a single union.

(C) Labor unions should compete directly with large industries in the production and distribution of consumer products.

(D) Industrial workers should form a political party to achieve their goals.

(E) The defective capitalist system should be replaced by labor cooperatives.

(A) Labor unions should concentrate on increasing wages and benefits.

Social Darwinists believed that

(A) there should be public ownership of the means of production

(B) all men are created equal

(C) society evolves in a cyclical fashion

(D) man could, with proper effort, recover from any adversity in life

(E) the theory of survival of the fittest explains individual success or failure in society

(E) the theory of survival of the fittest explains individual success or failure in society

"This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community."

The sentiments expressed above are most characteristic of

(A) transcendentalism

(B) pragmatism

(C) the Gospel of Wealth

(D) the Social Gospel

(E) Social Darwinism

(C) the Gospel of Wealth

The horizontal integration of American industry (i.e. one firm acquiring control of other firms that produce the same product) that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century was primarily a response to

(A) economic competition

(B) high tariffs

(C) powerful labor unions

(D) federal monetary policy

(E) federal regulation of business

(A) economic competition

Between 1890 and 1914, most immigrants to the United States came from

(A) southern and eastern Europe

(B) northern and western Europe

(C) Latin America

(D) Southeast Asia

(E) Canada

(A) southern and eastern Europe

Many Mexicans migrated to the United States during the First World War because

(A) revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval and dislocation

(B) the United States offered special homestead rights to relatives of Mexican Americans serving in the armed forces

(C) the war in Europe had disrupted the Mexican economy

(D) American Progressives generally held liberal views on the issue of racial assimilation

(E) the United States government recruited Mexican workers to accelerate the settlement of the Southwest

(A) revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval and dislocation

Which of the following statements about American cities between 1890 and 1930 is correct?

(A) Area of residence increasingly became an indicator of social class.

(B) Poor people moved to the outskirts of cities.

(C) Industries shifted from the cities to the suburbs.

(D) Widespread racial integration of communities occurred.

(E) Neighborhoods lost their ethnic identification.

(A) Area of residence increasingly became an indicator of social class.

Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the nineteenth century?

(A) Fewer poor people moved to the cities in the late nineteenth century.

(B) Cities began to provide free medical care to those who needed it.

(C) Doctors began to provide free medical care to poor people.

(D) Better transportation enabled more people to seek medical care.

(E) Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.

(E) Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.

During the late-nineteenth century, urban political machines were organizations that

(A) were created by native-born Americans to combat the political influence of immigrants

(B) were controlled by politicians who dispensed jobs and other patronage in return for political support

(C) worked for civil service reform to ensure sound municipal government

(D) consisted of reformers working to combat urban poverty by establishing settlement houses

(E) consisted of conservative elites seeking to maintain control of politics

(B) were controlled by politicians who dispensed jobs and other patronage in return for political support

Which of the following would most probably provide the widest range of information for a historian wishing to analyze the social composition of an American city in the 1880's?

(A) The minutes of the city council

(B) A debutante's diary

(C) A manuscript census tabulating the residence, ethnicity, occupation, and wealth of each city resident

(D) Precinct-level voting returns in a closely contested mayoral election held in a presidential election year

(E) A survey of slum housing conditions carried out by a Social Gospel minister in the year following several epidemics

(C) A manuscript census tabulating the residence, ethnicity, occupation, and wealth of each city resident

Which of the following led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Acts?

(A) Public concern that Chinese immigrants would not support the war effort during the Second World War

(B) Chinese officials wanting to restrict the flow of laborers to the United States

(C) The existence of large numbers of Chinese immigrants working illegally in the United States

(D) Racial prejudice towards Chinese workers in several regions of the country

(E) The unwillingness of Chinese immigrants to become naturalized American citizens

(D) Racial prejudice towards Chinese workers in several regions of the country