Review #1 for American History II

Which New South personality was a supporter of the talented 10Th

• Booker T Washington

• Henry Grady

• W.E.B.Du Boise

• Tom Watson

The Populist Party sought to increase the power of

• textile workers

• industrial unions

• agricultural workers

• immigrant populations

Which group was founded by W.E.B. DuBois and others in 1909 to promote equal treatment of Blacks in America?

• The Black Panthers

• SCLC

• CORE

• NAACP

Which black educator delivered the "Atlanta Compromise" speech at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in which he overlooked social segregation of the races as long as educational and economic opportunities were equal?

• Booker T Washington

• W.E.B Dubois

• Alonzo Herndon

• George Washington Carver

Which prominent Civil Rights leader would have disagreed MOST with Washington's approach to solving the problem of racial inequality in the south?

• Marcus Garvey

• W.E.B Dubois

• Fredrick Douglass

• George Washington Carver

The Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v Ferguson (1896) basically legalized (H7b)

• discrimination of women in the workplace.
• the segregation of people according to race.
• preventing people from voting based on race.
• housing discrimination against ethnic groups.

In the first half of the 20th century, literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to (H7b)

• deny suffrage to women.
• end the Reconstruction Era.
• disenfranchise African Americans.
• help pay for the growing New Deal programs.

The belief in the idea that Americans should settle lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Contract Theory

• Common Sense Movement

• Progressive Movement

Which candidate was the Populist party's candidate?

• Andrew Johnson
• Ulyssess Grant
• William Jennings Bryan
• William McKinley

Silver and gold caused________money in circulation, causing prices to________. 

• less, increase
• more, increase