Quiz Ch. 17-20 – Flashcards
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Industrialism in the New South:
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Barely kept pace with the booming industrial economy of the North
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Which statement about women in the New South is NOT true?
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Their new roles in Southern life changed the prevailing views about the role of women
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All of these major farmers' organizations emerged during the nineteenth - century except:
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The Grass Roots Party
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Which statement best describes the subtreasury plan?
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Storing cotton in warehouses in an effort to increase cotton prices
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The decision in the Plessy V. Ferguson case:
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Led to enactment of institutional segregation in the South
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Booker T. Washington emphasized:
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Vocational training as a way of establishing economic independence
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Ida B. Wells was instrumental in persuading the Federal Government to establish anti-lynching laws that would punish those responsible for lynching. In doing so, she forced the Federal Government to do what local and state governments had refused to do.
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True
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All of the following statements about W.E.B. Du Bois are true EXCEPT:
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He stressed agricultural education as the major aspect of improving life for blacks
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One disadvantage for American workers, of the rise of corporations was:
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Corporations now controlled the conditions and nature of work
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The workplace of the late 1800s included all of the following conditions EXCEPT:
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A safe and healthy environment
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Which statement would most likely have been said by a believer in Social Darwinism?
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"The laws of nature dictate the conditions of life for both rich and poor."
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A major difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was:
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Membership in the Knights of Labor was open to all workers
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Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist?
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"The nations purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners."
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The term "Great Migration" refers to the:
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Mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North
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Stereotypes of blacks were reinforced:
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By portrayals of blacks in vaudeville film.
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All of the following factors resulted in many Indian deaths on the Great Plains EXCEPT:
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Indians always refusing to move to new land
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Whites destroyed the buffalo herds for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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The government believed the indians would survive better with fewer buffalo
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Mining eventually became a corporate operation because:
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Massive capital investment in equipment was conductive to financial success.
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Ecological disasters that plagued the Cattle Kingdom included all of the following EXCEPT:
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A series of deadly tornadoes that destroyed commercial ranges
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The third party with the greatest importance in the late nineteenth century was the ____ party
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Populist
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By the mid-1890s, female reformers had succeeded in:
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Gaining the right to vote for women in some western states
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The most accurate description of the Spoils System is:
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warding patronage jobs based on party activism and loyalty
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The Pendleton Civil Service Act began to move toward
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Making government jobs competitive instead of an advantage of the Spoils System
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The interstate Commerce Commission was:
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Unsuccessful in enforcing the public's call for regulating the railroad industry
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The Sherman Antitrust Act:
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Failed to stop the unfettered growth of large corporations
