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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West (1870-1896)

Multiple Choice


1	The Exodusters who rushed to Kansas in the 1870s were:
		A)	southern blacks.
		B)	southern whites.
		C)	northern blacks.
		D)	northern whites.


2	Henry Grady's campaign for a "New South" focused on the need:
		A)	to imitate the North by promoting industry, cities, and commerce.
		B)	to force African-Americans to leave the region.
		C)	for social and legal equality for African-Americans.
		D)	to become a separate nation.


3	Tenant farming and sharecropping:
		A)	were limited to the South.
		B)	were rejected by all except African-Americans.
		C)	reduced many farmers to an existence of debt peonage.
		D)	provided a profitable opportunity for millions of former slaves and poor whites alike.


4	The tobacco industry surged in the late 1800s thanks to all of the following EXCEPT:
		A)	the invention of the cigarette-rolling machine.
		B)	national gimmick advertising.
		C)	the large pool of skilled southern labor.
		D)	cigarettes proved extremely popular in the urban North.


5	Major sources of southern poverty included all of the following EXCEPT:
		A)	the region's late start in industrializing.
		B)	the lack of technologically skilled mechanics and the general lack of emphasis on education.
		C)	the relative lack of natural resources.
		D)	the isolation of the southern labor force.


6	Many southerners attended camp meetings, at which:
		A)	circus performances were tried out.
		B)	prostitution and heavy drinking were the norm.
		C)	the Ku Klux Klan would induct new members.
		D)	the fires of evangelical religion were restoked with passionate preaching.


7	Southern Redeemers were given the go-ahead to legalize segregation of the races when:
		A)	President Grant issued an executive order to leave it up to southern governments to decide.
		B)	the Supreme Court issued its Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.
		C)	the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was repealed.
		D)	Congress passed a series of federal Jim Crow laws.


8	During the late nineteenth century most Plains Indians:
		A)	regarded human beings as part of nature
		B)	lived in tribes that were quite large and within which there was a great disparity between wealthy and poor.
		C)	lived in fear of tyrannical chiefs.
		D)	sought to assimilate into American society.


9	The Chivington massacre:
		A)	pushed George Custer into the national limelight.
		B)	left white settlers fearful that only the federal government could protect them from Indian attacks.
		C)	was conducted by tribes from Canada.
		D)	showed that zealous Indian fighters did not distinguish between hostile and friendly tribes.


10	The root cause of the Battle of Little Big Horn was:
		A)	U.S. government attempts to control the Black Hills.
		B)	the killing of Custer and his soldiers by Crazy Horse.
		C)	a population explosion among the Sioux and Cheyenne.
		D)	growing disagreements between Plains Indian tribes.


11	The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887:
		A)	forced Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce tribe to move to Indian Territory after their surrender to the U.S. Army.
		B)	tried to break up tribes and Americanize the Indians.
		C)	set up Indian reservations based on tribal ownership, where tribes could retain their own cultural identity.
		D)	showed the U.S. government's embarrassment over the killing at Wounded Knee.


12	After the Census of 1890, the superintendent of the Census announced that:
		A)	the majority of Americans were living west of the Mississippi River.
		B)	most Americans were living in cities of 100,000 or more.
		C)	Native Americans would thereafter be counted in the official U.S. population.
		D)	there was no longer a real western "frontier."

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