Question 1

Which of the following statements regarding the Southern economy by 1900 is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  The South experienced a rise in the amount of land owned by farmers.
B)  The South was the most industrial area of the United States.
C)  The South was the most educated part of the United States.
D)  The South was the least urban region in the United States.
E)  The South provided most of the North's manufactured goods.

Question 2

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v.Ferguson established the legal precedent of

Accepted Answer

A)  separation of powers.
B)  judicial review.
C)  "separate but equal."
D)  racial integration.
E)  capital punishment.

Question 3

Which of the following statements regarding the southern economy at the end of the nineteenth century is accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  The southern economy was comparable to the northern economy.
B)  The South was producing as much cotton as it had before the Civil War.
C)  The South's economy was stronger than the North's.
D)  The South's economy was growing faster than the North's.
E)  The South's economy was very diverse.

Question 4

A residence requirement was a major component of state constitutional amendments that aimed to disenfranchise black voters in multiple southern states.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What replaced the open range as a system of governing property in the Western frontier, resulting in conflicts with small ranchers?

Accepted Answer

A)  The crop-lien system
B)  Barbed-wire fencing
C)  Tribal boundaries
D)  Long ranging
E)  The Ghost Dance movement

Question 6

Before the Civil War, Americans referred to the area between California and the Mississippi River as

Accepted Answer

A)  Kansas.
B)  Nebraska.
C)  the Great American Desert.
D)  Wyoming.
E)  Washington.

Question 7

__________ was the name for the African Americans who migrated West in search of social and economic opportunities.

Accepted Answer

A)  Sharecroppers
B)  Exodusters
C)  Tenant farmers
D)  Carpetbaggers
E)  Redeemers

Question 8

Why did W.E.B.Du Bois disagree with what he called the Atlanta Compromise?

Accepted Answer

A)  He argued that because it was a piece of legislation written by white men, it would not make a difference in everyday lives of African Americans.
B)  He argued that the education of blacks should be strictly vocational because training new black leaders would lead to backlash.
C)  He argued that Booker T.Washington's ideas aimed to satisfy powerful whites, thereby giving credence to the idea that African Americans were inferior.
D)  He argued that the civil rights strategy that Booker T.Washington advocated was too militant and dangerous.
E)  He argued that it focused too much on political and social equality for blacks and not enough on economic prosperity and assimilation.

Question 9

The __________ was the spiritual and political movement started by __________ in 1888 to make Indian soldiers bulletproof in the fight to regain their homelands.

Accepted Answer

A)  Populist movement; Chief Joseph
B)  Ghost Dance; Wovoka
C)  Ghost Dance; Geronimo
D)  Great Sioux War; Wovoka
E)  Great Sioux War; Chief Joseph

Question 10

The __________ party was a new political party made up largely of farmers from the South and West who wanted to gain political influence in the East.

Accepted Answer

A)  Socialist
B)  Democratic
C)  Republican
D)  People's
E)  Communist

Question 11

__________ argued that the black response to racial prejudice should be "ceaseless agitation."

Accepted Answer

A)  W.E.B.Du Bois
B)  Booker T.Washington
C)  James Plunkett
D)  Alfred Waddell
E)  Henry Smith

Question 12

The Homestead Act of 1862 provided free land and all other materials necessary to have a thriving western farm.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Turner's "frontier thesis" argued that America's frontier

Accepted Answer

A)  had made it more democratic.
B)  had made it less democratic.
C)  had made it a less open society.
D)  had been shaped by women, Native Americans, African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics.
E)  was a myth.

Question 14

As the nineteenth century came to a close, ownership of land by southern farmers increased.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The __________ were the bloody conflicts between U.S.soldiers and Native Americans in the West from the 1860s to the 1870s.

Accepted Answer

A)  Range wars
B)  Indian wars
C)  Remington wars
D)  Arapaho battles
E)  Medicine Lodge wars

Question 16

Many proponents of the idea of the New South believed that they had lost the war because

Accepted Answer

A)  the South was too willing to follow the North's approach to industrialization.
B)  the South relied too much on technology that was new and undependable.
C)  the South focused too much on vocational training.
D)  the South depended too much on slavery and cotton cultivation.
E)  the South's economy had become too diverse and not specialized enough.

Question 17

By 1900, the South was no longer dependent on the North for investment capital.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following statements about the Redeemers is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were largely composed of black sharecroppers.
B)  They supported the idea of industrial progress grounded in white supremacy.
C)  They sought more taxes and a less diverse economy.
D)  They fought to provide African Americans with a better education.
E)  They strongly disagreed with Henry Grady's vision of a New South.

Question 19

Compare and contrast farming in the South and the West.In what ways were they similar? In what ways were they different? What challenges and opportunities did farmers in each region face?

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Question 20

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The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v.Ferguson established the legal precedent of

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Turner's "frontier thesis" argued that America's frontier

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Why did W.E.B.Du Bois disagree with what he called the Atlanta Compromise?

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__________ argued that the black response to racial prejudice should be "ceaseless agitation."

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The __________ party was a new political party made up largely of farmers from the South and West who wanted to gain political influence in the East.

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What replaced the open range as a system of governing property in the Western frontier, resulting in conflicts with small ranchers?

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__________ was the name for the African Americans who migrated West in search of social and economic opportunities.

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