front 1 The North interpreted Black Codes as | back 1 a. evidence that the South sought to keep freedmen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status. |
front 2 Labor in the construction of the California section of the transcontinental railroad was supplied by | back 2 b. Chinese workers |
front 3 With the exception of ________, the United States was the only society in the Americas in which the destruction of slavery was accomplished by violence. | back 3 b. Haiti |
front 4 The Fifteenth Amendment | back 4 c. expanded suffrage |
front 5 After emancipation, the most important institutions for African Americans as they tried to establish their own independent family and community life were the | back 5 d. schools and the churches |
front 6 In the years after the Civil War, many freedmen ended up working as | back 6 b. farmers under a sharecropper system |
front 7 "Sharecropping" means | back 7 a. returning a fraction of the harvest to the landowner as rent |
front 8 Most new textile workers in the South were | back 8 c. poor and white |
front 9 At the center of southern life was | back 9 d. the church |
front 10 Plessy v. Ferguson | back 10 b. established the concept of "separate but equal" |
front 11 The first "big business" in America, at least in terms of finance, labor relations, and management, was the | back 11 b. railroad industry |
front 12 The _____ was an essential system under-girding the rise of big business; it was itself big business; it was a cultural symbol of American industrialization; and it was a stimulus to other enterprises because it consumed so many natural resources. | back 12 c. railroad system |
front 13 Who was most closely related to the Knights of Labor? | back 13 c. Terance Powderly |
front 14 Who was most closely related to the American Federation of Labor? | back 14 a. Samuel Gompers |
front 15 The "new" immigration came from ________ and _________ Europe in te 1880's. | back 15 d. southern, eastern |
front 16 Who faced the most discrimination in the workplace? | back 16 c. African American men |
front 17 Ready-made consumer products for the urban middle class were available at the new_______, palaces of consumption conveniently located on streetcar lines for the lady who wanted to "go downtown" in an afternoon. | back 17 d. department store |
front 18 The dumbbell tenement was an innovative urban housing design, at first hailed as a helpful innovation, which turned out to be a dangerous blight on the cityscape. | back 18 True |
front 19 By 1910 65% of college students were women? | back 19 False |
front 20 During this time people started lobbying for social legislation to improve housing, women's working conditions, and public schools. | back 20 True |
front 21 Free silver was a monetary scheme; it was also a symbolic protest of ______ against the _______. | back 21 a. the agricultural South and West; the commercial Northeast |
front 22 Under the policy know as the Roosevelt ______, the United States asserted the right to intervene in the Western Hemisphere in order to prevent Europeans from doing so. | back 22 b. Corollary |
front 23 Coxey's Army | back 23 b. descended on Washington to demand a program to employ the jobless |
front 24 What is the best explanation of "free silver?" | back 24 a. The U.S. government would promote prosperity by inflating the money supply through minting all the silver offered to it. |
front 25 McClure's magazine pioneered a new style of journalism featuring, among others, writer Lincoln Steffans, who | back 25 d. presented carefully-researched exposes of corporate and government abuses |
front 26 The settlement house movement lead to the new profession of | back 26 d. social work |
front 27 The 19th amendment..... | back 27 c. gave women the right to vote |
front 28 The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was finally passed in 1920 because | back 28 b. of women's contributions to the war efforts in World War I at home and abroad |
front 29 Roosevelt justified his "corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine with the reasoning that | back 29 a. the instability of Latin American nations made them vulnerable to intervention by European powers |
front 30 When the draft began as a means to ensure adequate troops for the war, American public opinion | back 30 b. ranged widely from opposition to support |