Reconstruction & The Gilded Age
Study Quiz
1. ____ % of the South's white draft age men died:........................................................................ 18%
2. _____ widows in Alabama alone:............................................................................................ 80,000
3. _______ won the 1896 election: ....................................................................... William McKinley (R)
4. ________ was known as the father of communism: .......................................................... Karl Marx
5. _________ slaves down south: ......................................................................................... 3,500,000
6. _________ suggests that only the strong survive in the workplace: ........................ Social Darwinism
7. _____% of blacks lived in the South: .......................................................................................... 95%
8. " The history of society is a history of _______" – Karl Marx: ........................................ class struggle
9. "_________ is the opiate of the masses" - Karl Marx:........................................................... Religion
10. 1896 Republican nominee was ________________: ............................................ William McKinley
11. Abe Lincoln began his political career as a Whig. When the party collapsed in 1854, he and his Whig friends joined ___________________.: ............................................................................ the new Republican Party
12. According to Adam Smith, private property was ________ and what makes __________.:
............................................................................................................ - almost sacred - the individual
13. Adam Smith believed in ________ among companies:................................................. competition
14. Adam Smith believed that the ________ regulated prices, wages, and supply and demand. The government shouldn't interfere "artificially.": ................................................................................................. "invisible hand"
15. Adam Smith believed that the __________ was unavoidable:........... unequal distribution of wealth
16. After the war, the South began to move from agriculture to _______: ............................... industry
17. An investor is also known as a ______: ............................................................................. financier
18. Andrew Carnegie is the epitome of the _________ to ________ story:...................... rags to riches
19. Antebellum means __________: .................................................................................. before war
20. As of 1900 only _______% of labor belonged to a union:............................................................. 3%
21. Before the war, a healthy 18-year-old slave would command a price as high as a brand new _________ today: ...................................................................................................................................... Toyota Camry
22. Carnegie arrived in America as an impoverished __________ immigrant at the age of _____:
...................................................................................................................................... - Scottish - 13
23. Carnegie gave all his money to ____________: ........................................................... two libraries
24. Carnegie helped found __________ University:.................................................... Carnegie-Melon
25. Carnegie practiced _______ integration: ............................................................................. vertical
26. Carnegie Steel Works was helped by the invention of the_________ process:................. Bessemer
27. Carnegie was the first true _______, worth over ________ million: ................ - philanthropist - 350
28. Congress voted to drop silver and use only gold as the basis of the money supply because silver miners were not selling their silver directly to the treasury. This is known as the _________:
......................................................................................................................................... Crime of '73
29. Duke invented the first ___________ cigarettes:......................................................... ready rolled
30. Edward Bellamy wrote __________: ............................................................... "Looking Backward"
31. Governor ________ pardoned three of the eight convicted of murder for the Haymarket Square Riot. He was not reelected: ................................................................................................................................ Altgeld
32. Haymarket Square was the _________ for the Knights of Labor:............................... coup-de-grace
33. Henry George wrote __________: ................................................................ "Progress & Poverty"
34. Horizontal integration is _________: ...................................... joining others to maximize business.
35. How did the idea of black empowerment fail? (5 things):
.............................................................................................................................................. - poll tax
................................................................................................................... - no forty acres and a mule
................................................................................................................................... - Jim Crow Laws
....................................................................................................................................... - segregation
........................................................................................... - sharecropping bred generational poverty
36. Illinois in the 1870s passed the first ______ creating a state railroad commission to regulate the railroads.: Granger law
37. In ______ v. _______ of ________ the Supreme court approved Illinois' Granger law:
......................................................................................................................... - Munn v. Illinois - 1877
38. In ___________ v. __________ of _____ the Supreme Court reversed its decision and found the
Granger Laws unconstitutional: ......................................................... - Wabash Railroad v. Illinois - 1886
39. In 1860 ______% of Americans lived in cities: ........................................................................... 20%
40. In 1860 America was ______ among manufacturing nations:...................................................... 4th
41. In 1890 America was ______ among manufacturing nations: ...................................................... 1st
42. In 1900 ______% of Americans lived in cities: ........................................................................... 40%
43. In 1920 ______% of Americans lived in cities: ........................................................................... 51%
44. In 2000 ______% of Americans lived in cities: ........................................................................... 77%
45. James B. Duke had a monopoly on the ________ business: ................................................ tobacco
46. John Pierport Morgon formed _________ in __________: ................................... - US Steel - 1901
47. John Rockefeller monopolized the ________ business after the kerosine business went down due to
electricity: ....................................................................................................................................... oil
48. Karl Marx believed in the __________: ............................................... abolition of private property
49. Laissez-faire means _______: ............................................................................................ let it be
50. List five benefits of industrialization and urbanization.:
....................................................................................................................................... - rapid transit
......................................................................................................................... - rapid communication
........................................................................................................................................... - electricity
................................................................................................................................ - indoor plumbing
..................................................................................................................... - higher standard of living
51. List six negative impacts of industrialization and urbanization.:
......................................................................................................................................... - congestion
............................................................................................................................................ - pollution
................................................................................................................................................. - crime
.................................................................................................................. - corruption in government
............................................................................................................................. - disparity of wealth
....................................................................................................................................... - monopolies
52. NLU was formed in ______: .................................................................................................... 1866
53. People who work for their wages are the ________ class: .............................................. proletariat
54. President _______ sent troops down to break up the Railroad Strike of 1877 in West Virginia: Hayes
55. Reform movement led by farmers in the late 19th century which promoted a bimetalic currency as an effective way to cause inflation and help the falling crop prices:....................................................................... Populism
56. Results of industry in America. (2 examples): ........... - Brooklyn Bridge - Chicago 10-story skyscraper
57. Rockefeller believed in an "________": ............................................................ "economy of scale"
58. Rockefeller made the ________ deal with Vanderbilt in ______.: ............................ - rebate - 1868
59. Rockefeller shipped more amounts of oil and received a _______.: .................. cut rate on shipping
60. Samuel Gompers is known as ___________: .................................... the father of labor in America
61. Southerners wanted the government to be ________: ................................................. uninvolved
62. Speed of travel was ___ times faster after the first transcontinental railroad was built: ................ 10
63. Thaddeus Stevens wanted the government to force __________: ..................... school integration
64. The __________ case in _____ ruled that even though the company produced 90% of sugar, since all of it was in Pennsylvania, the federal government could not rule on it because they can only control interstate trade, not intrastate: ...................................................................................................................... - E.C. Knight case in 1895
65. The __________ decision in _____ declared the ICC's actions of simply publishing railroad rates as
unconstitutional: ............................................................................ - Cincinnati Railroad decision - 1897
66. The ___________ Act marks the first time that _________:
................................................................................................................... - Interstate Commerce Act
........................................................... - federal government took action to regulate economic matters
67. The ____________ were in control during the Civil War: ............................... Whiggish Republicans
68. The _______________ Act served as an anti-monopoly act: ...................... Sherman Anti-Trust Act
69. The American Federation of Labor accepted __________: ........................... skilled white guys only
70. The American Federation of Labor was formed in ________ by ________: - 1886 - Samuel Gompers
71. The American Railway Union was formed in _______ by ___________: ..... - 1893 - Eugene V. Debs
72. The Constitution's _________ grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce:
................................................................................................................ Interstate Commerce Clause
73. The democrats chose ______ over the incumbent _______ as their candidate for the 1896 election:
....................................................................................................................... - William Jennings Bryan
............................................................................................................................... - Grover Cleveland
74. The first president of the Populist Party was _____: ................................................. James Weaver
75. The first railroad was built in _____: ........................................................................................ 1869
76. The first transcontinental railroad covered over _______ miles: .............................................. 1700
77. The first transcontinental railroad was built by _________:
......................................................... two companies that build from either side and met in the middle
78. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in _______: ................................................. 1869
79. The first transcontinental railroad was from _______ to ________: ............. Omaha to Sacramento
80. The Great Railroad Strike was in _______: ............................................................................... 1877
81. The Haymarket Square Riot stemmed from a labor union being formed at a __________:
............................................................................. McCormick Harvester plant (manufactured tractors)
82. The Haymarket Square Riot was in _______: ........................................................................... 1886
83. The Homestead Strike was in _______: ................................................................................... 1892
84. The International Workers of the World or _________ was formed in ______ by ________. They were the most extreme labor union:
........................................................................................................................................ - "Wobblies"
.................................................................................................................................................. - 1905
................................................................................................................................. - Big Bill Haywood
85. The Interstate Commerce Act only provided for a "___________" commission (ICC) to regulate railroad prices: ........................................................................................................................................ "paper tiger"
86. The IWW was formed in ______: ............................................................................................ 1905
87. The Knights of Labor accepted ________ and wanted _________:
........................................................................................................................................... - everyone
........................................................................................................... - cooperatively owned factories
88. The Knights of Labor was formed in ________: ....................................................................... 1869
89. The Molly Maguires were hanged in ________: ...................................................................... 1876
90. The most significant impact of the war is that it brought on the ________: Emancipation Proclamation
91. The NLU accepted _________ and wanted ________: - everyone - cooperatively owned factories
92. The Pennsylvania governor sent 8,000 National Guardsmen to break up the Homestead Strike at
Carnegie Steel Works when ________ cut wages while Carnegie was in Scotland: ............... Henry Frick
93. The Pullman Strike was in _______: 1894
94. The socialist party was formed in ______ by _______.: .............................. - 1897 - Eugene V. Debs
95. The South's _______ was gone after the abolition of slavery: ............................................... capital
96. The Whig party died out in the _____: ................................................................................... 1850s
97. The Whiggish Republicans wanted the government to be _______: ...................................... active
98. Unfettered capitalism means _______: ...... the government was not involved in economic matters
99. US Steel was the first ______ corporation: ................................................................... billion dollar
100. Vertical integration is...: .. controlling the steps it takes to make your product in order to cut prices.
101. What are the three components of steel?: .......................................... - iron ore – limestone - coal
102. What are three ways the national government took on greater power?:
...................................................................................................................... - instituted the first draft
............................................................................................................................... - borrowed money
........................................................................................................................... - Pacific RR Act (1862)
103. What did blacks want from the reconstruction?:
........................ They wanted a new government that would protect them and the 40 acres and a mule
that were promised to them by Sherman.
104. What did the Congressional Republicans want from reconstruction?:
. They wanted to help blacks, but they fought to much among themselves to come to common ground.
105. What did the Radical Republicans want from reconstruction? (four major things):
....................................................................................................................... - Black enfranchisement
......................................................................................................... - Military occupation of the South
............................................................................................................ - 40 acres and a mule for blacks
................................................................................................. - Disfranchisement of all rebel soldiers
106. What did white southerners want from reconstruction?:
......... They wanted the country to go back to the way things were before the war just without slavery.
107. What did Yankees want from the reconstruction?:
They wanted the restoration of harmony, but they wanted the South to pay for all the trouble they caused.
108. What had to happen before the industrial age could begin?: ................... transportation revolution
109. What is a revolution "manqué?": .................................................................... A revolution missed
110. What US Attorney General asked a federal judge to issue an injunction to the unions that required them not to encourage a strike in any way?: ...................................................................................... Richard Olney
111. What was impeded by the Pullman Strike?: .................................................... The flow of US mail.
112. What was the 13th Amendment?: ................................................................................ No slavery
113. What was the 14th Amendment?: .................................................................. Rights of citizenship
114. What was the 15th Amendment?:.... You can't deny someone the right to vote based on their race
115. Where did the reconstruction efforts fail? (4 things):
........................................................................................................... 1. Black empowerment aborted
......................................................................................... 2. Reconstruction split the country politically
.................................................................................................................... 3. Distrust of government
....................................................................................... 4. White southerners hated anything Yankee
116. Which two Radical Republican reforms did not make it?:
.................................................. - 40 acres and a mule for blacks - Disfranchisement of all rebel soldiers
117. Who founded the Knights of Labor?: ................................................................. Terence Powderly
118. Who founded the NLU?: ...................................................................................... William H. Sylvis
119. Who staged a "sympathy strike" in support of the Pullman workers whose wages had been cut but still had to pay the same rent on their house in Pullman's model town?: ................................................... Eugene V. Debs
120. Who tried to assassinate Henry Frick?: ............................................................ Alexander Berkman
121. Who was the Pinkerton detective who infiltrated the Molly Maguires?: ................ James McParlan
122. Who were the leaders of the Radical Republicans?:
........................................ Senator Charles Sumner of MA and Representative Thaddeus Stevens of PA
123. Why the animosity from the South towards northerners? (3 things):
......................................................................... - Ended slavery - Killed southerners - Ruined economy
124. William Jennings Bran's famous speech was called _____: .................... the "Cross of Gold" speech
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