After the secession of South Carolina, the first crisis facing Lincoln was  the    
 southern invasion of Maryland.    
 loss of New Orleans.    
 * problem of Fort Sumter.    
 southern attack on Harper's Ferry.    
    
Abraham Lincoln's reconstruction program was based on     
 punishing the South as much as possible.    
 confiscating all southern wealth for the federal government.    
 * bringing the seceding states back quickly and generously.    
 achieving a fundamental transformation of southern society.    
    
    
All of the following contributed to the ultimate decline of the Native  Americans except:    
 the slaughter of the buffalo    
 * the Indians' refusal to accept Christianity    
 the reservation system    
 the Indian Wars    
    
Recent immigrants from eastern Europe working in Packingtown were most  likely to    
 have the skilled slaughtering jobs in the meat packing industry.    
 be experienced laborers from European industrial sites.    
 live in a mixed household and intermarry with other ethnic groups.    
 * receive the lowest paid jobs in by-product manufacturing.    
    
The key concepts in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward were     
 pacifism and anti-imperialism.    
 * community and cooperation.    
 industrial power and overseas colonies.    
 social gospel and free silver.    
    


The decision of four slave states to stay within the Union     
 caused Lincoln to legalize slavery in all northern states.    
 * negated the Confederate argument that they were forced to secede to protect the  right to own slaves.   
 negated the northern argument that they were fighting to free the slaves.    
 gave the South a military advantage.    
    

The first big businesses in the United States were     
 textile companies.    
 meat packing enterprises.    
 steel corporations.    
 * railroad companies.    
    

Sand Creek was the scene of a/an     
 * unprovoked massacre of Cheyenne Indians by white civilian "Volunteers."    
 treaty of friendship between the Cheyenne and the citizens of Colorado.    
 unprovoked massacre of white soldiers by the Sioux.    
 Indian victory over the U.S. Seventh Cavalry.    
    

The most significant development shaping the American economy after the  Civil War was the    
 invention of the cotton gin.    
 growth of the arms industry.    
 * emergence and consolidation of large-scale corporations.    
 growth of the meat packing industry.       
    

   

Supporters of the new People's Party founded in 1890 called themselves     
 * Populists.    
 Partisans.    
 Socialists.    
 Anarchists.    
    



Lincoln felt that his primary responsibility as president was to     
 free the slaves.    
 * preserve the Union.    
 make the South pay for its defection.    
 keep England out of the war.    
    

Fearful that their 1866 Civil Rights Act might be declared unconstitutional,  the Radical Republicans    
 passed a series of black codes in each state.    
 worked to gain full black male suffrage.    
 * gained passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.    
 tried to impeach President Johnson.    
    

More than any other industry or commercial enterprise, this group fostered  western expansion:    
 missionaries    
 land speculators    
 * miners    
 farmers    
    


Horizontal combinations like the Standard Oil Trust     
 helped to raise workers' wages.    
 * secured control over output and prices.    
 allowed for unlimited competition.    
 served to limit production.    
    

Those who advocated soft currency and silver coinage were actually calling  for    
 reducing the amount of silver in circulation.    
 higher interest rates.    
 * expansion of money in circulation.    
 increasing overseas markets.    
    


Which one of the following was LEAST likely to be drafted into the  Confederate military on the provisions of the draft law?    
 * a southern planter from Mississippi with 30 slaves    
 a non-slaveholding yeoman farmer from Alabama    
 a 30-year-old miller from Charleston    
 an 18-year-old apprentice printer from Texas    
    

The Radical Republican intention with the Tenure of Office Act was to limit  the powers of    
 the planter Democrats.    
 * President Johnson.    
 the Supreme Court.    
 Congress.    
    

 

The Homestead Act granted 160 acres of public domain to any settler who     
 wanted it.    
 was willing to pay $5 an acre.    
 * would live on the land and improve it for five years.    
 was willing to share his or her produce with the government.    
    


The Haymarket Square incident in 1886     
 helped fill the ranks of the Knights of Labor and the AFL.    
 succeeded in obtaining more support for the eight-hour day.    
 weakened the existing wage system.    
 * weakened labor unions, particularly the Knights of Labor.    
    

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech advocated     
 * the free silver issue.    
 progressive income taxes.    
 a gold standard.    
 a national bank.    
    

Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg  successfully achieved this Union war goal:    
 * cut off the Confederate states west of the Mississippi    
 obtain stored up cotton from southern docks    
 seize the resource-rich lower South    
 isolate South Carolina    
    

    

    

An electoral crisis developed in the Election of 1876 as a result of     
 the assassination of the Democratic nominee.    
 scandal related to both nominees.    
 widespread voter fraud.    
 * disputed electoral returns from several states.    
    



The Dawes Act was basically successful in     
 establishing Indians as homesteaders.    
 * undermining tribal sovereignty.    
 reinstating and protecting reservations.    
 reaffirming the integrity of Indian cultural institutions.    
    


  
Unlike the American Federation of Labor, the Knights of Labor     
 * welcomed most workers into its ranks.    
 organized only skilled workers.    
 embraced the American wage system.    
 advocated business unionism.    
    




In the late nineteenth century, Democrats generally sought to do each of the  following except:    
 * increase the influence of the federal government    
 gather support from newly naturalized immigrants in the North    
 protect states' rights    
 slash expenditures