History test 1

Developed by: Michael

US history since 1877

Question 1: The leader of the radical republicans in the house of representatives who was a driving force behind military reconstruction acts was Charles Summers.

	T
	F: Thaddeus Stevens

Question 2: The founder of the labor organization, the knights of labor was Terence Powderly

	F
	T

Question 3: The first mail-order company in the US was Sears, Roebuck and Company

	F: Montgomery Wards
	T

Question 4: The southern paramilitary organization who terrorized black southerners during reconstruction was the Freedman's Bureau

	F: KKK
	T

Question 5: The New York banker/financier who purchased the controlling stake in Carnegie Steel to create the US Steel Corporation was J.P Morgan.

	T
	F

Question 6: Southern sympathizers who supported the republican-controlled, reconstruction governments in the South were called "Carpetbaggers."

	F: Scalawags
	T

Question 7: The reclaiming of political control of governance in the South is sometimes called "redemption"

	F
	T

Question 8: The former actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln was John Barrymore.

	T
	F: John Wilkes Booth

Question 9: The ruthless entrepreneurs who made enormous profits from the rapacious capitalism of the Gilded Age were known as the "Robber-Barons."

	T
	F

Question 10: The supreme court case that established the legal precedent for the doctrine of "separate but equal" was the Slaughter-House Case.

	T
	F: Plessey vs. Ferguson

Question 11: In 1864, the Congress sent the_________ bill to the president in a bid to claim control over the process of reconstruction

	GI Bill
	Compromise of 1877
	Wade-Davis Bill

Question 12: The entrepreneur who built the Standard Oil Trust into a business combination controlling much of the American oil trade was _________

	John D Rockefeller
	George Kennan
	Samuel Gompers

Question 13: The Jewish cigar maker who founded the American Federation of Labor was ______

	Jackie Robinson
	Samuel Gompers
	Joseph McCarthy

Question 14: The efficiency expert whose ideas transformed manufacturing production procedures and contributed to the greater efficiency of American manufacturing was ________

	Gustavus Swift
	Thaddeus Stevens
	Frederick Taylor

Question 15: The African American principal who argued for an accommodation with the white South in his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise Speech" was ________

	Gustavus Swift
	J.P Morgan
	Booker T. Washington

Question 16: The ultimate victor in the controversial Election of 1876 was ________

	John Wilkes Booth
	Frederick W. Taylor
	Hayes

Question 17: The extrajudicial murder of African Americans by white mobs in the South was known as _______

	Lynching
	KKK
	Jim Crow laws

Question 18: The form of agricultural organization where landless African Americans and poor whites rented plots of land to grow for large landholders was know as ______

	Sharecropping
	Redemption
	Jim Crow laws

Question 19: The de-fact and de-jure attempts to separate the races in the South was known as ______

	Accommodations
	Jim Crow laws
	Lynching

Question 20: Abraham Lincoln's plan to bring the states of the Confederacy back into the Union was known as the _______

	Wade-Davis Bill
	Ten Percent Plan
	Military Reconstruction

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