HIST 1302 Final UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following was developed before the Civil War? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Cotton Gin
After the Second Industrial Revolution, corporations tried their hands at - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Farming
What is the term given to describe the ability of companies to afford technological
improvements and the workforces to propel them into the modern age? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Economies of Scale
The Compromise of 1877 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Removed troops from the South and
left Freedmen vulnerable
During Grant's presidency, Republicans - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Were hopeful and
politically involved
What did not play a role in the development of Reconstruction in the South? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The creation of the Ku Klux Klan to protect Southerners from the federal
government and the freedmen
By 1897, the United States had more of this than all the European nations combined -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Railroads
John D. Rockefeller is best associated with which industry? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Oil
The process Rockefeller used to gain control of his company's industry is known as -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Vertical integration
The Legal Tender Act of 1862 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Allowed for the printing of paper
currency
, By 1900, _____ of college students were women. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1/3
The largest group employed in factories during the Gilded Age was - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Immigrants
What was a reason that married women were offered less pay during the Gilded Age? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Their husbands supported them
The Knights of Labor's decline began because of its perceived involvement in - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The Haymarket riot
The Homestead Strike ended with - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the workers' union destroyed
and their leaders imprisoned
Which of the following statements regarding the Southern economy at the end of the 19th
century is most accurate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the south was producing as much
cotton as it had before the civil war
Which statement regarding the crop-lien system is most accurate - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The system was inefficient, corrupt, and racially unfair
What was a poll Tax? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A tax that had to be payed before a person
could vote
____________________________ argued that the black response to racial prejudice should
be "ceaseless agitation." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- W.E.B Du Bois
According to your textbook, the post-Civil War West symbolized - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Economic opportunity and personal freedom
All of the following constitute the Great Plains except - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- East
Kansas
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which of the following was developed before the Civil War? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Cotton Gin
After the Second Industrial Revolution, corporations tried their hands at - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Farming
What is the term given to describe the ability of companies to afford technological
improvements and the workforces to propel them into the modern age? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Economies of Scale
The Compromise of 1877 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Removed troops from the South and
left Freedmen vulnerable
During Grant's presidency, Republicans - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Were hopeful and
politically involved
What did not play a role in the development of Reconstruction in the South? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The creation of the Ku Klux Klan to protect Southerners from the federal
government and the freedmen
By 1897, the United States had more of this than all the European nations combined -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Railroads
John D. Rockefeller is best associated with which industry? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Oil
The process Rockefeller used to gain control of his company's industry is known as -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Vertical integration
The Legal Tender Act of 1862 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Allowed for the printing of paper
currency
, By 1900, _____ of college students were women. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1/3
The largest group employed in factories during the Gilded Age was - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Immigrants
What was a reason that married women were offered less pay during the Gilded Age? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Their husbands supported them
The Knights of Labor's decline began because of its perceived involvement in - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The Haymarket riot
The Homestead Strike ended with - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the workers' union destroyed
and their leaders imprisoned
Which of the following statements regarding the Southern economy at the end of the 19th
century is most accurate? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the south was producing as much
cotton as it had before the civil war
Which statement regarding the crop-lien system is most accurate - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- The system was inefficient, corrupt, and racially unfair
What was a poll Tax? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A tax that had to be payed before a person
could vote
____________________________ argued that the black response to racial prejudice should
be "ceaseless agitation." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- W.E.B Du Bois
According to your textbook, the post-Civil War West symbolized - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Economic opportunity and personal freedom
All of the following constitute the Great Plains except - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- East
Kansas
