Midterm Study Guide
Reconstructing History: A Midterm Study Quiz
Test your knowledge of the Reconstruction era and its lasting impact on American history with our comprehensive 60-question quiz. This engaging quiz covers key events, legislation, and significant figures of the time, helping you prepare effectively for your midterm exams.
Key Features:
- 60 questions on the Reconstruction era
- Multiple choice format for easy answering
- Immediate feedback on your answers
How long did the Reconstruction era last?
12 Years
5 Years
15 Years
10 Years
Lincoln’s moderate reconstruction plan pleased the majority of republicans in Congress
True
False
What issue or issues were important to the Radical Republicans?
Providing secondary education for all freedmen
Destroy political power of slaveholders and give full citizenship to all freed slaves.
Destroying the southern economy
Preventing Lincoln from being elected a third time
What is the name of the play President Lincoln was attending when an assassin shot him?
Hamilton
Godspel
Our American Cousin
Society
Radical Republicans believed Andrew Johnson assumed that he was anti-southern.
True
False
Andrew Johnson could care less about the current or future condition of former slaves; he wanted to go after what group of people?
The Radical Republicans
Southern aristocrats
The scalawags
The Copperheads
Black Codes” were designed to keep the freedmen in a state of bondage.
True
False
President Johnson vetoed the expansion of the Freedman’s Bureau and the Civil Rights Act, but for the first time in American history, congress overrode the President’s veto.
True
False
After Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act a new era in American history was ushered in, what is the name given to that era?
Civil Rights era
The Gilded Age era
Congressional Reconstruction era
Johnsonian era
Why did northern women object to the 14th amendment?
Black men could vote but nor Black women
Only Black men who were former slaves were eligible to vote
Because all women especially white women were excluded from voting
None of the above
The 15th Amendment was created because southern whites might try to limit black suffrage. What is black suffrage?
Blacks right to vote
Blacks rights to stop working
Blacks right to an education
Blacks right to be paid
What organization rose in membership to over 4 million and became a political force.
The Pale Faces
The Temperance League
The Ku Klux Klan
The Union League of America
Which of the following is considered the ‘worst’ of the scandals during President Grant’s presidency? The Whiskey Ring Affair
The Whiskey Ring Affair
Credit Mobileir
The Whiskey Rebellion
The Tea Pot Doom Scandal
What President reshaped the destiny of 4 million freedmen?
Grant
Cleveland
Hayes
Arthur
In 1868 in order to provide cheap labor for the railroads congress passed the Burlingame Treaty, but when Chinese immigration reached nearly 40,000 annually, congress passed what Act?
Japanese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Gentlemen’s Agreement Act
The Beijing Reform Act
Where did government soldiers massacred over 150 Indian women and children?
Battle of Little Big Horn
On the Bozeman Trail
Near Fort Laramie
Sand Creek Indian reservation
What is the name of the Act that was passed in 1877, that split up Indian reservation lands and forced the Indians to adopt the habits of civilized life?
The Dawes Act
The Assimilation Act
The Last Act of Henry the VII
The Tribal Lands Act
What Indian Movement spread throughout the Plains Indians tribes and had to be stamped out by the government?
The Dance of the Prophet
The Dance of the Wolves
The Ghost Dance
The Dancing with Stars
What is an Exoduster?
Farmers who gave up
African Americans who left the South to farm in Kansas
Whites settlers who crossed the desert
Homesteader’s who built Soddy’s
What is a Soddy?
A home built by sodbusters
A home made of Prairie Turf
A settler who farmed
A homesteader who built their homes out of timbers
What did the Morrill Act’s do?
Provided additional lands for the railroad construction
Gave federal land to the states in order to build agricultural colleges
Made it illegal to buy Indian land
None of the Above
Investors and Railroad invested in extremely large single crop farms known as
Franchises
Land-grants
Bonanza farms
Plantations
What was created in an effort to prevent homesteading near railroads?
The No Homesteading Act of 1817
The Transcontinental RR Act of 1863
A homestead-free-zone
An indemnity-zone
What is the name of the railroad that was constructed with private money?
Transcontinental RR
Union RR
Central RR
Great Northern RR
1.5 million cattle were herded along what trail?
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Appalachian Trail
Chisholm Trail
What was indirectly blamed for the death of 90% of the cattle on the open range?
Barbed-wire
Pesticides
Guns
Hoof and Mouth Disease
Between 1859 and 1899 what showed an increase of 622 percent?
European immigrants
Sexually transmitted diseases
The wealth of the nation
American manufacturing
Which of these inventors created the sleeping car?
Westinghouse
Tesla
Edison
Pullman
Which of the robber barons believed that it was a disgrace to die rich.
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The Knights of Labor supported craft unions and prohibited blacks, women, and immigrants from joining their organization.
True
False
Unlike the Knights of Labor, this organization used labor strikes to gain concessions for their members.
United Auto Workers Union
United Steel Workers Union
United Railroad Union
The American Federation of Labor
In the 1800s puritan values continued when it came to the matter of sex, as most middle-class were prudish and only engaged in sex in order to procreate.
True
False
Which labor union supported the 8-hour workday?
American Federation of Labor
United Railroad Union
Steel workers Union
None of the Above
Because they were willing to work for low wages this group of immigrants were excluded from immigrating to America.
Irish
Russians
Catholics
Chinese
Constructed with steel what was considered the eighth wonder of the world?
Golden Gate Bridge
Lincoln Tunnel
Brooklyn Bridge
George Washington Bridge
Which group began to focus on improving living conditions rather than saving souls?
Protestants
Catholics
Nativists
Social Gospelers
Who stated life was struggle and the fittest will prevail?
George Burns
Charles Darwin
Charles Chaplin
Charles Pride
Evolutionists believed an educator should help children_______.
Read
Write
Study the Bilbe
Survive
Who was America’s greatest realist and author of western literature?
Mark Twain
Mary Pickford
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
This publisher sold 100,000 copies of his newspaper a day only one year after buying the New York World
William Randolph Hearst
Albert Finney
Joseph Pulitzer
Frank Leslie
The Pendleton Act was created a Civil Service Commission whose job it was to create administers and monitor a civil service exam to new recruits.
True
False
True or False in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal in schools and other public places as long as the facilities were of equal quality.
True
False
Which man earned a PhD. from Harvard and was an advocate for immediate change for all blacks in regards to their civil rights.
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Dubois
Marcus Garvey
Frederick Douglass
Tammany Hall was run by what political- machine boss?
Boss McKinley
Boss Tweed
Bull Moose Party
Boss Taft
Members of the People’s Party saw themselves as betrayed by__________.
Political Bosses
The Federal Government
Bankers and Corporations
The Alliance movement
If you supported a combination of gold and silver specie you were a what?
Silverite
Gold Bug
Bimetallist
Populist
What Democrat who came out in support of silver and he gave a moving and powerful speech that became known as the “Cross of Gold” speech?
William McKinley
Howard Taft
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
Ida Tarbell saw John D. Rockefeller ruin her father’s career; she then helped bring down the Standard Oil, which was owned by John D. Rockefeller, what is the name of magazine that she wrote for?
The World
Hearst Publishing
Harper's
McClure's
Most progressives knew that political corruption and inefficiency lay at the root of American society.
True
False
Eugene V. Debs, Big Bill Hayward, Mary Harris, and Daniel Deleon formed the IWW, they were also known as the ________.
Miners’ Union
Wobblies
Marxists
None of the Above
Progressive’s fought for reform of big business, and they came out against child labor, women’s rights, and for civil rights for African Americans.
True
False
In order to gain control of the political machines in urban environments progressives knew that had to obtain________.
Federal support
State support
Home rule
Financial backing
Robert M. LaFollette created agencies and commissions that regulated tax assessment, conservation, and highway construction. Soon after other governors followed his system, what is the name given to Lafollette’s system?
State expansion system
Wisconsin Idea
LaFollete’s Reform system
Square Deal system
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony become leaders in what organization?
IWW
ARU
NWSA
WNBA
With the assignation of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States; how old was he when he became president?
32
55
45
42
Pres. Roosevelt sent government officials to Chicago to report on the meatpacking industry, he did so after reading what book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Huckleberry Finn
The Jungle
The Chisholm Trail
Who did Teddy Roosevelt handpick to be his successor?
William Howard Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Willie Nelson
Eugene V. Debs
After his return from an African hunting safari, Teddy Roosevelt returned to find the Republican Party in chaos. After a split between the conservative Republicans who supported Taft and the Progressive Republicans who supported Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt formed what political party?
The Socialist
The Bull Moose Party
The Communistic Party
The Greenbacks Party
True or False, when Woodrow Wilson became president African Americans saw an increase of reform movements that benefited their race.
True
False
Which civil rights leader coined the phrase “beauty is black” and he supported immediate change in the treatment of black civil rights?
Dr.King
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
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