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Question 1
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In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?
Question 1 options:
a)
St. Louis
b)
Dallas
c)
New York
d)
Chicago
Question 2
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How did railroads transform the American economy?
Question 2 options:
a)
created a new white-collar middle class of managers
b)
inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class
c)
increased the role of government in the economy
d)
all of the above
Question 3
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Which census first revealed that the majority of Americans were living in cities?
Question 3 options:
a) 1920
b)
1880
c) 1900
d)
1910
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By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?
Question 4 options:
a)
33 percent
b)
60 percent
c)
50 percent
d)
20 percent
Question 5
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All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT:
Question 5 options:
a)
Parish churches
b)
Rotary clubs
c)
Mutual aid societies
d)
Workmen's clubs
Question 6
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All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT:
Question 6 options:
a)
They sought to move away from the South's dependence on cotton, believing that agricultural diversification would lead to economic development.
b)
They saw economic independence as a means of limiting connections between North and South.
c)
They were exclusively white and sought to maintain the racial status quo.
d)
They embraced industrialization as a tool to encourage economic development.
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From 1880 to 1950, approximately ______ African Americans were murdered by white mobs.
Question 7 options:
a)
one thousand
b)
five thousand
c)
one hundred and fifty
d)
five hundred
Question 8
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What was the most important aspect of the southern economy
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Question 8 options:
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a) transportation
b)
agriculture
c)
textile mills
d)
furniture making
Question 9
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The development of a national railway system
Question 9 options:
a)
provided needed jobs for an overabundant labor supply
b)
had little effect on the economic changes of the late nineteenth century
c)
led to an integrated national economic system
d)
was not completed until the early twentieth century
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What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?
Question 10 options:
a) sharecropping
b)
chattel slavery
c)
wage labor
d)
apprenticeships
Question 11
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What was the "tainted money" debate?
Question 11 options:
a)
the title of a series of essays written by Jacob Riis that exposed corruption in New York City government
b)
the decision whether the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions would accept a large donation by John D. Rockefeller
c)
a widely publicized debate between Pennsylvania Senate candidates that questioned whether American industrial devleopment damaged American liberty
d)
debates over whether the United States currency should be backed by the gold standard
Question 12
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Gilded age and Progressive era workers in America's factories
Question 12 options:
a)
worked on tasks that were highly skilled and varied
b)
worked on tasks that required at least a college education
c)
worked under safe working environments
d)
worked on tasks that were boring and repetitive
Question 13
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The New South economy
Question 13 options:
a)
coexisted easily with ethnic equality
b)
coexisted easily with white supremacy
c)
coexisted easily with gender equality
d)
coexisted easily with racial equality
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