When Lincoln gave Grant command of all Union forces, he was adopting a policy of __________. A) offering the Confederacy easy terms for peace B) forcing the Confederacy to surrender to escape total destruction C) avoiding decisive battles at all cost D) preventing civilian casualties ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The population of which of these states was deeply divided over support for the Union? A) Delaware B) Maryland C) Massachusetts D) Connecticut ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Fearful that their 1866 Civil Rights Act might be declared unconstitutional, the Radical Republicans __________. A) required each state to pass its own civil rights laws B) worked to gain full black male suffrage C) gained passage of the Fourteenth Amendment D) gained passage of the Fifteenth Amendment ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The first big businesses in the United States were __________. A) textile companies B) railroad corporations C) steel corporations D) oil companies ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Grant was nominated by the Republicans in 1868 because of his __________. A) demonstrated political experience B) popularity as a war hero C) ties to the Liberal wing of the party D) friendship with Andrew Johnson ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Defend or refute the following assertion: “The South lost the war but won the peace.” What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: redemption; political violence; northern apathy; northern intervention
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Santa Fe Ring was a group of land spectators, lawyers, and politicians who __________. A) extorted money from the Bureau of Indian Affairs B) benefited from the Timber Culture Act C) cheated Mexicanos out of their landholdings D) negotiated the Gadsden Purchase for their railroad route ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Ghost Dance of Paiute prophet Wovoka was intended to __________. A) restore the Indian peoples and make the whites disappear B) convert all Indians to Christianity C) teach Plains Indians to farm D) make Indians invulnerable to white’s bullets ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did the Homestead Act fail in its purpose of peopling the west with small family farms? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: terms of the Homestead Act; government land policy; corporate interests; climate and geography in the West
Date: September 9th, 2020
With the rapid growth of manufacturing, for working-class people, __________. A) steady employment was rare B) wages rose faster than prices C) the lower class steadily shrank D) the workplace became steadily safer ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
