HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES II
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
(E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members - answer
✔✔-Which of the following constituted a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during
the last half of the nineteenth century?
(A) The beginning of negotiations with individual Indian tribal groups
(B) The start of a removal policy
(C) The abandonment of the reservation system
(D) The admission of American Indians to United States citizenship
(E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members
(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers. - answer ✔✔-Which of the following
best describes the experiences of most recently freed people following Reconstruction?
(A) They obtained land from the Freedmen's Bureau.
(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers.
(C) They established large cooperative farms.
(D) They migrated to Northern urban areas and worked as unskilled laborers.
(E) They were forced to migrate to marginally fertile lands in the western territories.
(A) temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy - answer ✔✔-The Reconstruction
Acts of 1867 provided for
(A) temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy
(B) federal monetary support for the resettlement of African Americans in Africa
(C) property-holding and voting rights for African Americans
,(D) implementation of anti-African American vagrancy laws in the South
(E) lenient readmission of the formerly Confederate states to the Union
(E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers. - answer ✔✔-During Reconstruction, Southern Blacks
typically did which of the following?
(A) Worked as day laborers in towns and cities.
(B) Migrated northward, exercising their new freedom.
(C) Owned and worked small farms.
(D) Worked in mines and factories.
(E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers.
(E) establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of the states - answer ✔✔-"All persons born
or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws"
Section I of the Fourteenth Amendment is significant because it
(A) outlaws slavery
(B) restates the promises of the Bill of Rights
(C) reaffirms the balance of power among the three branches of government
(D) establishes enforcement procedures to protect voting rights
(E) establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of the states
(B) the program for the former Confederate States associated with Republicans led by Charles Sumner
and Thaddeus Stevens - answer ✔✔-The term "Radical Reconstruction" refers to
(A) Abraham Lincoln's plan to restore the Confederate States to the Union
(B) the program for the former Confederate States associated with Republicans led by Charles Sumner
and Thaddeus Stevens
(C) the federal policies put into effect by Andrew Johnson immediately after the Civil War
(D) the implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment after the Civil War
,(E) the restoration of white conservative rule in the South after 1877
(B) the disputed election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency - answer ✔✔-The Reconstruction era
was effectively ended in the South with
(A) the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
(B) the disputed election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency
(C) the forcible removal of the carpetbaggers
(D) the government's legal eradication of the Ku Klux Klan
(E) integration of public accommodations was complete
(E) Hayes compromised with Southern opponents removing federal troops from the South and
appointing a Southerner to his cabinet. - answer ✔✔-Which of the following occurred as a result of the
Compromise of 1877?
(A) Southern Democrats threatened secession until Rutherford B. Hayes removed federal troops from
the South.
(B) Hayes rewarded Southern supporters by backing a plan for a railroad across Florida.
(C) Hayes rewarded Northern supporters by promising to provide government aid for factory
construction.
(D) Hayes ordered more federal troops into the South.
(E) Hayes compromised with Southern opponents removing federal troops from the South and
appointing a Southerner to his cabinet.
(C) federal policy toward Native Americans (Indians) - answer ✔✔-The book A Century of Dishonor,
written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881, won wide fame by denouncing
(A) continued exploitation of the South by Northern businessmen
(B) the failure of state and federal governments to grant women the right to vote
(C) federal policy toward Native Americans (Indians)
(D) American foreign policy in Latin America
(E) monopolistic tactics of railroads
(E) Dawes Severalty Act - answer ✔✔-The paragraph above describes the effect of the
, (A) Wade-Davis Bill
(B) Hatch Act
(C) Morrill Land Grant Act
(D) Homestead Act
(E) Dawes Severalty Act
(C) establishment of reservations - answer ✔✔-In the decade after the Civil War, the federal
government's policy toward the Plains Indians focused on the
(A) creation of a network of churches to convert them to Christianity
(B) establishment of schools to promote tribal culture
(C) establishment of reservations
(D) forced migration of most Indian tribal groups to urban areas
(E) forced migration of Indian tribal groups from the Southeast to Oklahoma
(E) frontier experience in fostering democracy - answer ✔✔-In his interpretation of the historical
development of the United States, Frederick Jackson Turner focused on the importance of the
(A) traditions of western European culture
(B) role of women in socializing children to become good citizens
(C) historical consequences of the enslavement of African American people
(D) conflict between capitalists and workers
(E) frontier experience in fostering democracy
(E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies - answer ✔✔-The anticombination laws
passed by numerous states in the late 1880s were a response to which of the following organizational
innovations?
(A) The creation and growth of international cartels
(B) The development of industry-wide trade associations
(C) The joining of skilled and unskilled workers in industrial unions
(D) The formation of agricultural marketing cooperatives
(E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
(E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members - answer
✔✔-Which of the following constituted a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during
the last half of the nineteenth century?
(A) The beginning of negotiations with individual Indian tribal groups
(B) The start of a removal policy
(C) The abandonment of the reservation system
(D) The admission of American Indians to United States citizenship
(E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members
(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers. - answer ✔✔-Which of the following
best describes the experiences of most recently freed people following Reconstruction?
(A) They obtained land from the Freedmen's Bureau.
(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers.
(C) They established large cooperative farms.
(D) They migrated to Northern urban areas and worked as unskilled laborers.
(E) They were forced to migrate to marginally fertile lands in the western territories.
(A) temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy - answer ✔✔-The Reconstruction
Acts of 1867 provided for
(A) temporary Union military supervision of the former Confederacy
(B) federal monetary support for the resettlement of African Americans in Africa
(C) property-holding and voting rights for African Americans
,(D) implementation of anti-African American vagrancy laws in the South
(E) lenient readmission of the formerly Confederate states to the Union
(E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers. - answer ✔✔-During Reconstruction, Southern Blacks
typically did which of the following?
(A) Worked as day laborers in towns and cities.
(B) Migrated northward, exercising their new freedom.
(C) Owned and worked small farms.
(D) Worked in mines and factories.
(E) Tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers.
(E) establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of the states - answer ✔✔-"All persons born
or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the laws"
Section I of the Fourteenth Amendment is significant because it
(A) outlaws slavery
(B) restates the promises of the Bill of Rights
(C) reaffirms the balance of power among the three branches of government
(D) establishes enforcement procedures to protect voting rights
(E) establishes the basis for citizenship and limits the power of the states
(B) the program for the former Confederate States associated with Republicans led by Charles Sumner
and Thaddeus Stevens - answer ✔✔-The term "Radical Reconstruction" refers to
(A) Abraham Lincoln's plan to restore the Confederate States to the Union
(B) the program for the former Confederate States associated with Republicans led by Charles Sumner
and Thaddeus Stevens
(C) the federal policies put into effect by Andrew Johnson immediately after the Civil War
(D) the implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment after the Civil War
,(E) the restoration of white conservative rule in the South after 1877
(B) the disputed election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency - answer ✔✔-The Reconstruction era
was effectively ended in the South with
(A) the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
(B) the disputed election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency
(C) the forcible removal of the carpetbaggers
(D) the government's legal eradication of the Ku Klux Klan
(E) integration of public accommodations was complete
(E) Hayes compromised with Southern opponents removing federal troops from the South and
appointing a Southerner to his cabinet. - answer ✔✔-Which of the following occurred as a result of the
Compromise of 1877?
(A) Southern Democrats threatened secession until Rutherford B. Hayes removed federal troops from
the South.
(B) Hayes rewarded Southern supporters by backing a plan for a railroad across Florida.
(C) Hayes rewarded Northern supporters by promising to provide government aid for factory
construction.
(D) Hayes ordered more federal troops into the South.
(E) Hayes compromised with Southern opponents removing federal troops from the South and
appointing a Southerner to his cabinet.
(C) federal policy toward Native Americans (Indians) - answer ✔✔-The book A Century of Dishonor,
written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published in 1881, won wide fame by denouncing
(A) continued exploitation of the South by Northern businessmen
(B) the failure of state and federal governments to grant women the right to vote
(C) federal policy toward Native Americans (Indians)
(D) American foreign policy in Latin America
(E) monopolistic tactics of railroads
(E) Dawes Severalty Act - answer ✔✔-The paragraph above describes the effect of the
, (A) Wade-Davis Bill
(B) Hatch Act
(C) Morrill Land Grant Act
(D) Homestead Act
(E) Dawes Severalty Act
(C) establishment of reservations - answer ✔✔-In the decade after the Civil War, the federal
government's policy toward the Plains Indians focused on the
(A) creation of a network of churches to convert them to Christianity
(B) establishment of schools to promote tribal culture
(C) establishment of reservations
(D) forced migration of most Indian tribal groups to urban areas
(E) forced migration of Indian tribal groups from the Southeast to Oklahoma
(E) frontier experience in fostering democracy - answer ✔✔-In his interpretation of the historical
development of the United States, Frederick Jackson Turner focused on the importance of the
(A) traditions of western European culture
(B) role of women in socializing children to become good citizens
(C) historical consequences of the enslavement of African American people
(D) conflict between capitalists and workers
(E) frontier experience in fostering democracy
(E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies - answer ✔✔-The anticombination laws
passed by numerous states in the late 1880s were a response to which of the following organizational
innovations?
(A) The creation and growth of international cartels
(B) The development of industry-wide trade associations
(C) The joining of skilled and unskilled workers in industrial unions
(D) The formation of agricultural marketing cooperatives
(E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies
