REVIEW FOR TEST 2

The cartoon above is intended to express… (US.03)

• A. a critique of Reconstruction

• B. opposition to women’s rights

• C. support for strong government

• D.opposition to the draft

What actions by southern states led to the condition represented in this cartoon? (US. 03)

• A. Jim Crow laws that allowed local governments to control activity.

• B. Nullification of federal laws granting civil rights

• C. Restrictive voting laws for former slaves

• D. Emergence of the share-cropping system

What acts by Congress were intended to prevent this social and political order? (US.03)

• A. Establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• B. Constitutional amendments granting civil rights and suffrage rights to former slaves

• C. Free land for homesteaders

• D. Banking laws that established a standard currency

The cartoon above reflects which of the following concepts that were popular in the late 1900s? (US.08)

• A. Gospel of Wealth

• B. Social Darwinism

• C. Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• D. vertical integration

This cartoon could best be used to support which claim made about business owners in the late 1800s? (US.04)

• A. Business owners should be considered “Robber Barons” who unfairly used their money and influence to take advantage of politics in the United States.

• B. Most men who owned businesses should be considered “Captains of Industry” as they used their money to drive the American economy forward.

• C. Monopolies in the end of the 19th century had little political power in terms of the U.S.

  economy.

• D. Congress used their legislative power to limit the economic power of monopolies and trusts.

To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, “Cast down your bucket where you are…As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

“Atlanta Compromise Speech”, Booker T. Washington, 1895

Booker T. Washington is asking the listeners to choose _______________ over _________________________ when hiring. (US.09)

• A. Slave labor ... free blacks

• B. Black workers. . . immigrant workers

• C. Union workers. . .non-union workers

• D. Native born white workers. . .black workers

Booker T. Washington differed from W.E.B. DuBois in his approach to relations with whites in that… (US.09)

• A. DuBois believed in separate social interactions but having the races joined Economically.

• B. Washington was more accepting of social segregation than DuBois

• C. DuBois favored political equality but was less assertive in encouraging economic Equality.

• D.Washington promoted academic, rather than technical, education for blacks more than DuBois.

In the 1900's segregation would be reinforced by...

• A. Congress and the president.

• B. the Supreme Court.

• C. the Niagara Movement.

• D. monopolies and corporate interests.

Rapid rail construction after the Civil War was possible because… (US.01)

• A. there was little competition between the builders.

• B. the rail companies managed their money and land wisely.

• C. federal and state governments provided important financial incentives.

• D. the western half of the nation was uninhabitable.

Starting during the Civil War, the federal government was able to settle the western half of the US quickly by passing the Homestead Act which required settlers to… (US.01)

• A. live on and improve the land for a period a time

• B. become railroad workers

• C. move west, but not work the land.

• D. build houses out of wood and glass