Period 6 test

Which of the following developments would be most consistent with the beliefs expressed in the excerpt?

Consolidation of wealth by an elite

One by one the southern states have legally disenfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every southern state has passed separate (railroad) car laws with a penalty against their infringement. The race, regardless of advancement, is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars." The author of the statement above was

an African American journalist in the 1890's

The era from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War was characterized by

periodic economic panic and depression

The Supreme Court descion in Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?

sanctioned seperate but equal public facilities for african americans

Which of the following was most closely allied to the sentiments in this excerpt?

American Federation of Labor

In the late nineteenth century, political machines such as Tammany Hall were successful primarily because

machine politicians needed jobs and services to naturalized citizens in return for their votes

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

free coinage of silver

eliminate the gold standard

Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860's and 1870's?

the expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible

According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, a key factor in the development of American individualism and democracy was...

the frontier

The key idea in the excerpt is that Grady believes:

the south needed to industrialize