YAWP EXAM 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS
When did Reconstruction begin? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Before the war ended
Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of he following effects? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅All of the above
How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Asserted the federal government's power to enforce the Bill of Rights over
the authority of the states
Black delegates actively participated to revising the state constitutions of southern states. In
addition to election reform, what other major accomplishment did these delegates achieve? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅established public school systems
General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No.15 was intended to do which of the
following? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as
homesteads for freed people
Which of the following goal of freedpeople was the least successful? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Gaining access to land
How did black churches help to develop political organization in black communities? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅all of the above
Why did women's rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅It introduced the word "male" Into the Constitution for the first time.
What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the
mourning for Union soldiers buried Charleston? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Patriotic
Association
, What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅all of the above
why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅He was a
white sheriff and tax collector who supported freed people's civil rights.
what was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Sharecropping
What was the most significant change in the American economy as a result of the Civil War? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Increased presence of the federal government in the economy
The Depression of 1875 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. what was the
name of that company? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Jay Cooke and Company
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Promised the removal of federal troops from the south
Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅management
What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅The adoption of interchangeable parts
By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more
than __________. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅All of the above, combined (a. Britain b.
France c. Germany)
ANSWERS
When did Reconstruction begin? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Before the war ended
Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of he following effects? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅All of the above
How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Asserted the federal government's power to enforce the Bill of Rights over
the authority of the states
Black delegates actively participated to revising the state constitutions of southern states. In
addition to election reform, what other major accomplishment did these delegates achieve? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅established public school systems
General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No.15 was intended to do which of the
following? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as
homesteads for freed people
Which of the following goal of freedpeople was the least successful? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Gaining access to land
How did black churches help to develop political organization in black communities? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅all of the above
Why did women's rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅It introduced the word "male" Into the Constitution for the first time.
What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the
mourning for Union soldiers buried Charleston? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Patriotic
Association
, What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅all of the above
why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅He was a
white sheriff and tax collector who supported freed people's civil rights.
what was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Sharecropping
What was the most significant change in the American economy as a result of the Civil War? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Increased presence of the federal government in the economy
The Depression of 1875 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. what was the
name of that company? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Jay Cooke and Company
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Promised the removal of federal troops from the south
Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅management
What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅The adoption of interchangeable parts
By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more
than __________. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅All of the above, combined (a. Britain b.
France c. Germany)
