The American Vision Volume 2, Alabama Edition

Chapter/Alabama : Alabama Special Report

Sectional Conflict Intensifies, 1848-1860

1
Which of the following was NOT an effect of industrialization in the late 1800s' Alabama?
A)better working conditions for miners
B)increase in population
C)jobs for unemployed
D)diversity to the economy
2
What were the two organizations whose main goal was to improve the lives of farmers in Alabama in the late 1800s?
A)the Farmers' Alliance and the Alabama's Cotton Growers
B)the Grange and the Farmers' Alliance
C)the Populist Party and the Alabama's Cotton Growers
D)the Grange and the Populist Party
3
Which progressive reform was the most successful in Alabama during the first decade of the 1900s?
A)child labor laws
B)public education
C)health care
D)prohibition
4
Who was Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald?
A)daughter of Anthony Sayre, an Alabama Supreme Court justice
B)a flapper
C)a writer and an artist
D)all of the above
5
How did the New Deal improve the lives of Alabamians?
A)It guaranteed homes for the rural poor.
B)It offered to pay the debts of the sharecroppers.
C)It improved the living conditions in the Tennessee Valley.
D)It assisted in paying the tuition of college students.
6
How did World War II change the lives of women in Alabama?
A)The war didn't change their lives.
B)Women entered the workforce in greater numbers than before the war.
C)Women gave birth to more children during the war than earlier.
D)More women stayed home to take care of the children.
7
The Boswell Amendment required that ___________.
A)voters could read and write
B)a person had to live in Alabama for five years before he or she could gain citizenship rights
C)voters could understand and explain any article of the U.S. Constitution
D)voters pay poll tax
8
What year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
A)1965
B)1956
C)1966
D)1960
9
Who was the first African American mayor of Birmingham and when was he elected?
A)Morris Dees in 1987
B)George Wallace in 1977
C)Hugo L. Black in 1986
D)Richard Arlington Jr. in 1979
10
What is the biggest environmental challenge in Alabama?
A)water pollution
B)air pollution
C)trashing
D)none of the above
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