Unit 4: Chapters 20-26 Practice

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?

The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was “a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight” was reflected in

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?

Which of the following developments best explains changes in agricultural production in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s?

The Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka essentially reversed which of the following earlier Court decisions?

Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

“Another marked characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon is what may be called an instinct or genius for colonizing. His unequaled energy, his indomitable perseverance, and his personal independence, made him a pioneer. He excels all others in pushing his way into new countries.”

Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most accurately described as

“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863

Question

After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the “new birth of freedom” that the excerpt refers to?

In the 1850’s, the South differed from the North in that the South had

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting

Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women’s rights?

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that

Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?

Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of business monopolies, courts initially used its provisions successfully against

Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases?

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the

On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established

A key goal of the Progressive movement was to

Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the following?

Which of the following developments best explains the reasons for the growth of a new urban culture in the late 1800s?

After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over