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America in the late 1800s was becoming an industrial power. According to your text, what best describes what was going on in the world outside? |
| | A) | An autocratic emperor was threatening to take over Europe. |
| | B) | Revolutionary struggles created upheaval in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. |
| | C) | in a quest for markets and raw materials, European powers vied for colonial dominions overseas. |
| | D) | stabilized by a balance of power, European nations remained at peace, allowing the U. S. to become an active participant in world affairs. |
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The chapter introduction tells the story of the "Exodusters" to make the point that: |
| | A) | religious imagery was important in the lonely lives of rural folk in the late nineteenth century. |
| | B) | hopes for the future in the South and West confronted realities of "colonial" economies built on exploited lands and peoples. |
| | C) | while the South suffered from floods and worn-out soil, westerners suffered from locust infestations and the Dust Bowl. |
| | D) | both the South and the Midwest lost population as blacks and whites alike joined the "boomer' land rushes in the Far West. |
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What is NOT true about the post-Civil War southern economy? |
| | A) | The South's economy was poor, decentralized, and rural. |
| | B) | Cotton remained the dominant southern product, despite falling prices. |
| | C) | Despite dreams of a New South, industry never took hold in the South before 1900. |
| | D) | A capital shortage made tenant farms the prevailing pattern in southern agriculture. |
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All of the following were reasons sharecroppers could not move up the "agricultural ladder" EXCEPT: |
| | A) | a ruinous system of credit. |
| | B) | a need to grow cash crops rather than foodstuffs. |
| | C) | the control of processing costs by landlords. |
| | D) | the failure of new fertilizers. |
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Wages in southern industries remained low because: |
| | A) | of the historic low wage pattern in agriculture. |
| | B) | unions had no success in organizing key industries. |
| | C) | of the close relationship between mill owners and workers. |
| | D) | extremely low wage scales for black workers offset the decent wages whites earned. |
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The lumber industry actually left the South poorer because: |
| | A) | corruption and a relaxed federal timber policy allowed northerners and foreigners to acquire vast tracts of forest at artificially low prices. |
| | B) | timber was sold as raw material rather than as more lucrative finished products. |
| | C) | loggers and millers put down few roots in southern communities. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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Southern poverty persisted for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
| | A) | the South's late start in industrializing its economy. |
| | B) | a lack of northern capital in the region. |
| | C) | a lack of spending on education. |
| | D) | the isolation of the labor force. |
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To what does the term "Jim Crow" refer? |
| | A) | a process by which freed slaves established new communities in Kansas |
| | B) | a Supreme Court case that declared that legalized segregation was constitutional |
| | C) | a system of legalized separation of blacks as socially inferior |
| | D) | a technique used by the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate rural African Americans in the South so they would not try to vote |
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): |
| | A) | extended protection to blacks under the Fifteenth Amendment. |
| | B) | upheld the concept of "separate but equal. " |
| | C) | banned discrimination from interstate commerce. |
| | D) | upheld legislation curbing the power of monopolies. |
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Each of the following was true about cowboys during this period EXCEPT: |
| | A) | many of them were Confederate war veterans. |
| | B) | They borrowed many of their clothing styles from Mexican tejanos and Californios. |
| | C) | They included a significant percentage of black freemen. |
| | D) | They dramatically improved upon the herding techniques they learned from Mexican ranchers. |
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General Custer's expedition into the Black Hills of South Dakota: |
| | A) | was undertaken to enforce an earlier treaty between the United States and the Sioux. |
| | B) | spread rumors of gold to encourage whites to migrate to the region. |
| | C) | confronted the Indians with the full force of the Seventh Cavalry. |
| | D) | routed the Indian troops at the Battle of Wounded Knee. |
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The Dawes Severally Act of 1887 proved destructive because it: |
| | A) | prevented Indians from selling tribal lands. |
| | B) | attacked the communal structure of tribal life. |
| | C) | required different tribes to live together on the same reservation. |
| | D) | ignored the demands of sympathetic white reformers for a new Indian policy. |
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When Anglo cattle ranchers forced Hispanos off lands near Las Vegas, Las Gorras Blancas (White Caps): |
| | A) | banded with the Ricos, the Spanish elite, to protect their property. |
| | B) | sued the cattle ranchers in state courts but lost. |
| | C) | burned Anglo fences, haystacks, barns, and houses. |
| | D) | burned railroad ties until the Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad agreed to raise the wages it paid its Hispano workers. |
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Western booms followed what typical pattern? |
| | A) | Initially, settlers showed respect for the environment; later, emigrants practiced ruthless exploitation. |
| | B) | Initially, there was accommodation with Indians; ultimately, a war of extermination was pursued. |
| | C) | Initially, homesteaders sought new farmlands; eventually, the cattle barons displaced the farmers. |
| | D) | Initially, individuals rushed in for quick profits; then, corporations moved in with hired labor. |
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The cattle boom on the Great Plains ended in part because: |
| | A) | many ranchers preferred raising sheep. |
| | B) | too few people were willing to risk investment. |
| | C) | severe weather conditions and overgrazing wiped out many ranchers. |
| | D) | new breeds of cattle made ranching less profitable. |
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Buffalo Bill Cody: |
| | A) | Wrote a series of novels promoting his exploits. |
| | B) | Took an Indian girl off a reservation and made her famous as Annie Oakley. |
| | C) | Reenacted many frontier events but never Custer's last stand. |
| | D) | Promoted a popular image of the Wild West that became accepted around the world. |
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