History Quiz 3

The Immigration Restriction League:

wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

As a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part.

How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South?

How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South?

What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?

It helped southern whites cope with defeat but preserve white supremacy.

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

The victim's alleged sexual conduct.

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:

held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

Plessy v. Ferguson:

sanctioned racial segregation.

The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.

Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:

women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.