History Previous Test Questions

What was Lincoln’s primary goal following the civil war?

reunifying the country

In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with

barring ex-Confederates from political office

Which one of the following was not one of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

collecting taxes

Which of the following is not one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate Black people and White sympathizers?

petitioning Congress

Some would argue that Reconstruction was a failure because what "king" resource wasn't redistributed?

land

Which of these was not a successful invention of the era? (Labor/imperialism)

movies with sound

What was the major advantage of Westinghouse’s “alternating current” power invention?

it allowed machines to be farther from the power source

Which of the following “robber barons” was notable for the exploitative way he made his fortune in railroads?

Jay Gould

Which of the following does not represent one of the management strategies that John D. Rockefeller used in building his empire?

social Darwinism

Which of the following was not a key goal of the Knights of Labor?

a graduated income tax on personal wealth

Which of the following did not contribute to the growth of a consumer culture in the United States at the close of the nineteenth century?

 

greater disposable income

Why did African Americans consider moving from the rural South to the urban North following the Civil War?

to find wage-earning work

Which of the following is true of late nineteenth-century southern and eastern European immigrants, as opposed to their western and northern European predecessors?

Ellis Island was the first destination for most southern and eastern Europeans