History Exam

The chart above (shows decreasing prices over time) supports which of the following conclusions regarding economic conditions in the United States during the last third of the nineteenth century? a. Many American farmers struggled financially. b. Industrial workers refused to demand higher wages due to declining prices. c. Cheap foreign goods were the primary cause for the decline in prices. d. Wheat farming became more lucrative. e. Americans with relatively stable incomes found it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

a. Many American farmers struggled financially.

From the 1880's to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant American Indian policy of the United Stated government sought to a. break up tribal landholdings b. encourage American Indian emigration to Canada c. relocate all American Indians to the Oklahoma territory d. strengthen traditional tribal authority e. encourage American Indians to preserve their languages and religions

a. break up tribal landholdings

All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that it a. accelerated the growth of some older cities and created new ones b. was often overspeculated leading to a bubble c. was financed by private corporations without government assistance d. opened new territories to commercial agriculture e. was the first big business in the US

c. was financed by private corporations without government assistance

"One by one the southern states have legally disfranchised 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 a. an African American journalist in the 1890s b. a White southern Democrat in the 1930s c. a White segregationist in the 1910s d. an African American Civil Rights worker in the 1970s

a. an African American journalist in the 1890s

Between 1870 and 1900, farmers did all of the following in an attempt to better their condition EXCEPT a. limit production of crops b. form a third political party c. organize farming cooperatives d. seek state regulation of railways

a. limit production of crops

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, southern state governments used all of the following methods to restrict African American freedoms EXCEPT a. poll taxes b. restrictive housing covenants c. Jim Crow laws d. grandfather clauses e. literacy tests

b. restrictive housing covenants

In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that a. Boston was the second largest city in the United State b. infant mortality was no longer a serious problem c. the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas d. the United States had more Catholics than Protestants e. industrialization was closing the gap in wealth between rich and poor

c. the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas

W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed a. segregation was a southern problem more than a national one b. economic success would lead to political equality c. African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality d. job training was ultimately more important than formal education e. civil rights would come through local efforts rather than a national organization

c. African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality

In his Atlanta Compromise speech, Booker T. Washington called for which of the following? a. An end to racial segregation b. Racial integration of religious organizations c. Educational equality for African Americans d. Support for African American self-help e. African American voting rights

d. Support for African American self-help

By the 1870s, which of the following most reflected the continuation of the trend depicted on the maps? a. The development and use of the cotton gin in the South b. The extension of electrical power to most homes in the United States c. The purchase of automobiles by most households in the United States d. The completion of transcontinental railroads

d. The completion of transcontinental railroads

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following? a. Restricted the right to purchase or sell land. b. Upheld literacy testing as a condition of voting in federal elections. c. Declared civil rights legislation unconstitutional. d. Upheld segregated railroad facilities. e. Outlawed segregation in public schools.

d. Upheld segregated railroad facilities.

The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated with a. an American Indian victory at Little Bighorn b. the Pueblo Revolt c. the outbreak of King Philip's War d. distress over loss of tribal autonomy and lands e. an infusion of Hispanic cultural traditions

d. distress over loss of tribal autonomy and lands

All of the following contributed to the decline of open-range cattle ranching at the end of the nineteenth century EXCEPT a. overgrazing b. all are true c. barbed wire d. federal recognition of American Indian land claims

d. federal recognition of American Indian land claims

Which of the following was true of the South in the post-Civil War period? a. A large immigrant population moved to the region. b. A strong labor movement emerged in the textile industry. c. The cotton market experienced a twenty-year boom. d. Big business and railroads came to dominate the Southern economy just as they did in the North. e. Landowners widely adopted sharecropping and tenant farming.

e. Landowners widely adopted sharecropping and tenant farming.

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported a. limitation on West Indian migration to the United States b. elimination of convict leasing c. creation of a southern literature critical of the Old South d. elimination of Jim Crow segregation e. expansion of southern industry

e. expansion of southern industry