Question 1

Which of the following statements regarding southern sharecroppers is accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Sharecroppers were mostly poor whites.
B)  Sharecroppers often also worked as merchants.
C)  Sharecroppers worked in return for things like shelter and seed.
D)  Sharecroppers ran textile mills and other industries.
E)  Sharecroppers tended to make a lot of money.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

As many as a quarter of the cowboys who participated in the Texas cattle drives were African Americans.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

__________ was the powerful Chiricahua Apache chief who was captured by the United States government in 1886.

Accepted Answer

A)  Modoc
B)  Chief Joseph
C)  Geronimo
D)  Red Jacket
E)  UteF) B) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 4

What did the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 do?

Accepted Answer

A)  It ordered all Native Americans to relocate to Canada.
B)  It ordered all Native Americans to relocate to Mexico.
C)  It attempted to "Americanize" Native Americans.
D)  It gave Native Americans the right to vote.
E)  It gave Native Americans representatives in Congress.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

__________ set up the first stockyard for Texas cattle in Abilene, Kansas.

Accepted Answer

A)  Henry Comstock
B)  Joseph G.McCoy
C)  Colonel Alfred Waddell
D)  Justice John Marshall Harlan
E)  Henry Woodfin GradyF) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 6

Which of the following statements describes the status of Native Americans at the end of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Native Americans were better off than they had ever been.
B)  Native Americans were better off than they had been before the Civil War.
C)  Native Americans were revered as allies by the U.S.government.
D)  Native American resistance to westward expansion had been crushed.
E)  Native Americans believed they could work with the U.S.government to improve their status.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

Why were Washington Duke and his son James Buchanan significant figures?

Accepted Answer

A)  They worked as the first sharecroppers.
B)  They perfected the mass production of cigarettes.
C)  They wrote about their struggles as industrial expansion slowed.
D)  They developed a series of successful textile mills.
E)  They popularized the business strategy of refusing to cooperate with competitors at all costs.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 8

The response of African Americans to the resurgence of racism in the South was to submit to the white culture.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In 1882, Congress banned further immigration to the United States from what country?

Accepted Answer

A)  China
B)  Japan
C)  England
D)  Ireland
E)  FranceF) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 10

According to the __________ national census, the frontier era of American development had ended.

Accepted Answer

A)  1890
B)  1880
C)  1870
D)  1900
E)  1860F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 11

The so-called grandfather clause originated in what state?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mississippi
B)  Louisiana
C)  Georgia
D)  Virginia
E)  AlabamaF) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

Along with the West, the South was considered a "new frontier" by 1900 in part because it needed to be rebuilt after the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

__________ led the American troops at the infamous Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

Accepted Answer

A)  Ulysses Grant
B)  Robert E.Lee
C)  Henry Woodfin Grady
D)  Jack Wilson
E)  George A.CusterF) B) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 14

The Supreme Court case of Plessy v.Ferguson (1896) made the practice of racial segregation legal throughout all the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

As a result of the crop-lien system in the South, farmers often had __________ at the end of the harvest.

Accepted Answer

A)  a better education
B)  a bonus in pay
C)  ownership of land
D)  a larger debt
E)  a smaller debtF) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 16

In 1883, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the __________ was unconstitutional, resulting in the spread of segregation.

Accepted Answer

A)  Thirteenth Amendment
B)  Fourteenth Amendment
C)  Fifteenth Amendment
D)  Civil Rights Act of 1875
E)  decision in Plessy v.FergusonF) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 17

Which of the following statements regarding race relations in the last years of the nineteenth century is accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Economic, legal, and social discrimination against blacks increased.
B)  Social discrimination against blacks increased, but not legal discrimination.
C)  Legal discrimination, but not social discrimination, against blacks increased.
D)  Legal, social, and economic discrimination against blacks declined.
E)  Legal and social, but not economic, discrimination declined.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 18

Negrophobia was the name given to the violent racism in the late nineteenth century against blacks, especially those who had become financially successful or influential politically in any way.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

By the turn of the twentieth century, the __________ had surpassed __________ as the largest producer of cotton fabric in the nation.

Accepted Answer

A)  North; the South
B)  South; the West
C)  West; the North
D)  South; New England
E)  West; New EnglandF) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

Discuss how the Native Americans in the period from 1860 to 1890 shape westward expansion through their opposition and through their cooperation.Note the contrasting roles of different tribes and different individuals that made some consistently resist the spread of others into their territories and made some serve as allies to the U.S.Army.

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