Question 12 pts
1) Although the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited the use of race as a qualification for voting, southern states during the Jim Crow era still found ways to prevent African-Americans from voting by drafting laws that required voters to read and write, or pay a poll tax.
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True
False
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Question 22 pts
2) Identify the best definition for Social Darwinism – a philosophy many corporate industrial leaders used during the Gilded Age:
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Religious groups should defend the rights of the poor in cities and enlist government assistance in doing so
Western lands should be granted to European immigrants at low cost
Laws of evolutionary progress could be applied to human society and were explained by the phrase “survival of the fittest.”
Society developed according to fixed biblical principles, primarily defined by the law of no change
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Question 32 pts
3) Populists refused to support the creation of labor unions and opposed government interference in the economy.
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True
False
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Question 42 pts
4) The idea of the Lost Cause was a romanticized view of the causes of the Civil War and the realities of the Old South. This myth was perpetuated by many southern leaders, including some churches and religious leaders, and it created a memory of the war that often positioned slavery as a positive good, if it acknowledged it at all.
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True
False
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Question 52 pts
5) Between 1865 and 1900, we defined Lynching as the extra-legal method used by vigilante mobs to intimidate and carry out violence mostly against African Americans accused of various crimes:
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True
False
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Question 62 pts
6) During the 1880s, labor and management clashed as American corporations attempted to control factory work. This organization arose to advocate an 8-hour work day, public safety programs, and sought to address the growing concern over the power of corporations and the gaps between rich and poor.
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Knights of Labor
Federated Mechanical Workers
Anti-Union League
all of the above
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Question 72 pts
7) Between 1870 and 1900 various agricultural groups evolved to form a political party that advocated for farmers and a more balanced economy supported by federal policies. What was this political party called?
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Know-Nothing Party
Republican
Populist
none of the above
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Question 82 pts
8) During the 1880s and ’90s, this newspaper editor from Atlanta advocated a New South ideology, in which he argued that the South should adopt industrial development and agricultural innovation, to pull itself out of poverty, and correct cultural problems:
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Booker T. Washington
Alfred T. Mahan
Mark Twain
Henry Grady
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Question 92 pts
9) Between 1870 and 1900, while the South witnessed some industrial development, this development did not mirror the scale and type found in the North.
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True
False
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Question 102 pts
10) Between 1870 and 1900, southern industry was largely based on producing finished goods rather than processing raw materials, and it enjoyed the benefits of large capital resources based in the South to help fund these enterprises.
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True
False
