Lesson 1K.1.1

1K.1.1 From Civil War to World War, 1865–1920 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 10

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The 20 questions

  1. Which President was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1868 but acquitted by the Senate by a single vote?

    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Rutherford Hayes
    • Andrew Johnson
    • Ulysses S. Grant

  2. Which amendment of 1865 abolished slavery throughout the United States?

    • The Nineteenth Amendment
    • The Fifteenth Amendment
    • The Fourteenth Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment

  3. Which 1868 amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalised in the United States and guaranteed equal protection of the laws?

    • The Fourteenth Amendment
    • The Seventeenth Amendment
    • The Thirteenth Amendment
    • The Fifteenth Amendment

  4. Which political compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the last Southern states?

    • The Missouri Compromise
    • The Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • The Compromise of 1850
    • The Compromise of 1877

  5. Which Act of 1883 established a merit system for appointments to federal government jobs, reducing the spoils system?

    • The Sherman Act
    • The Dawes Act
    • The Pendleton Act
    • The Interstate Commerce Act

  6. Which 1887 law created the first federal regulatory agency, to supervise railroad rates and practices?

    • The Pendleton Act, which introduced merit examinations for many federal jobs and reduced the spoils system in 1883
    • The Hepburn Act, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission power to set maximum railroad rates in 1906
    • The Interstate Commerce Act
    • The Clayton Act, which strengthened the antitrust laws and limited interlocking directorates in 1914

  7. Which 1890 Act was the first federal law to outlaw trusts and monopolies that restrained interstate trade?

    • The Federal Reserve Act
    • The Sherman Antitrust Act
    • The Clayton Antitrust Act
    • The Interstate Commerce Act

  8. Which agrarian party, formed in 1892, campaigned for free silver, regulation of railroads and a graduated income tax?

    • The Greenback Party
    • The Free Soil Party
    • The Populist Party
    • The Whig Party

  9. Which 1896 speech by William Jennings Bryan, delivered at the Democratic convention, attacked the gold standard?

    • The Gettysburg Address
    • The Fourteen Points speech
    • The Cross of Gold speech
    • The Four Freedoms speech

  10. Which 1898 war between the United States and Spain led to the acquisition of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam?

    • The Spanish-American War
    • The Russo-Japanese War
    • The Mexican-American War
    • The Boer War

  11. Which 1903 treaty with Panama gave the United States rights to build and control the Panama Canal Zone?

    • The Treaty of Ghent
    • The Treaty of Paris
    • The Treaty of Portsmouth
    • The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

  12. Which 1913 amendment to the Constitution allowed the federal government to levy an income tax?

    • The Sixteenth Amendment
    • The Twentieth Amendment
    • The Seventeenth Amendment
    • The Eighteenth Amendment

  13. Which 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote in all American elections?

    • The Fifteenth Amendment
    • The Twenty-first Amendment
    • The Nineteenth Amendment
    • The Eighteenth Amendment

  14. Which 1913 Act created the Federal Reserve System to regulate money and banking in the United States?

    • The Glass-Steagall Act
    • The McFadden Act
    • The Dodd-Frank Act
    • The Federal Reserve Act

  15. Which German action in 1915 sank a British liner and killed American citizens, increasing pressure for US entry into the war?

    • The sinking of the Maine
    • The attack on Pearl Harbor
    • The sinking of the Lusitania
    • The sinking of the Arabic

  16. How many years separated the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 and the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920?

    • 65 years
    • 45 years
    • 55 years
    • 75 years

  17. How many years separated the Compromise of 1877 and the Spanish-American War in 1898?

    • 25 years
    • 17 years
    • 29 years
    • 21 years

  18. How many years separated the Pendleton Act of 1883 and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

    • 36 years
    • 30 years
    • 24 years
    • 40 years

  19. Which statement best explains the failure of Radical Reconstruction in the South by 1877?

    • Congress abolished the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in 1870, which removed the legal basis for civil rights
    • The South received large federal grants that ended economic hardship, which allowed freed people to buy land
    • Black Americans gained complete political equality in every Southern state by 1877, which was confirmed by federal courts
    • Southern white resistance, violence and a waning of Northern will combined to end federal enforcement of black civil rights

  20. Which judgement best explains the significance of the Progressive Era reforms in the spec's theme of change and continuity?

    • They had no lasting effect on American government or society, which remained the same after the reforms ended in the early 1900s
    • They gave African Americans full civil rights throughout the South by 1920, which was enforced by federal troops in every Southern state
    • They ended all federal regulation and restored laissez-faire economics, which removed government from business entirely
    • They shifted towards greater federal regulation and social reform, though limits on rights, especially for African Americans, remained

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