Unit 3 Industrialism Quiz

Topic: Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920)

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many changes occurred in U.S. agriculture as a result of industrialization.

Which is one way industrialization affected agriculture?

• It delayed the transportation of crops to market.

• It decreased opportunities to grow a variety of crops.

• It reduced the amount of labor needed to grow crops.

• It decreased the amount of land available for cultivation.

Part A

From 1910 to 1930, approximately 1.6 million migrants left rural areas in Southern states and moved to Northern cities. This population shift was known as the Great Migration.

Which group relocated from the South to the North in the largest numbers during this period?

• Asian Americans

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• Mexican Americans

Part B

Select all of the factors that motivated the group you identified in Part A to relocate to Northern cities.

• expanded cultural experiences

• institutionalization of Jim Crow laws

• racial tensions in industrialized regions

• increased demand for agricultural labor

• increased availability of northern manufacturing jobs

How did the removal of federal troops after Reconstruction change the South?

• It permitted Radical Republicans to gain increased influence in state governments.

• It allowed racial discrimination to be institutionalized with the passage of Jim Crow Laws.

• It had little effect on southern states because Reconstruction had been generally successful.

• It ensured that African Americans would continue to vote and have a say in local and state governments.

Select all of the factors that enabled racism to become institutionalized in the United States following the end of the Reconstruction period.

• Federal troops were removed from southern states.

• The Republican Party regained control of state governments in the South.

• The Federal government banned the application of grandfather clauses to new laws.

• The Supreme Court affirmed the principle of “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson.

• Southern state governments repealed laws that limited African-Americans’ ability to vote.

Sec. 243. A uniform poll tax of two dollars … is hereby imposed on every male inhabitant of this State between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years … The board of supervisors of any county may … increase the poll tax in said county, but in no case shall the entire poll tax exceed in any one year three dollars on each poll. No criminal proceedings shall be allowed to enforce the collection of the poll tax.

How did Section 243 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 contribute to institutionalized racism in the post-Reconstruction South?

• Many African Americans had not been granted U.S. citizenship.

• Many African Americans were unable to read laws passed by the state legislature.

• The frequent movement of African Americans disqualified them from becoming eligible voters.

• The two dollar poll tax that voters were required to pay was not affordable for most African Americans.

Some of the restrictions on voting like those in the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 had the effect of disenfranchising poor white people in the South. Beginning in the 1890s, some southern states instituted “grandfather clauses” that allowed more poor white people to vote. Under these grandfather clauses, people were able to register to vote if their grandfather or father had voted before 1867.

• Many African Americans had moved to the South after the Civil War in search of political jobs.

• Before Reconstruction, most African Americans were enslaved and unable to vote in the South.

• The Fifteenth Amendment allowed states to set voter registration requirements that varied by race.

• Following the withdrawal of federal troops, Republicans were elected across the South and created protections for white voters.

What was one effect of Jim Crow laws on marriage, prior to the 1960s?

• to prohibit interracial marriage

• to deny property rights to women

• to establish a minimum age for marriage

• to limit the number of times women could marry

What eventually led to the elimination of the laws and practices of Jim Crow Laws?

• An amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed these laws and practices.

• Governors of Southern states issued executive orders prohibiting these laws and practices.

• Southern state courts ruled that these laws and practices were inconsistent with their state constitutions.

• Civil rights organizations pressured the federal government to take action against these laws and practices.

Which thesis statement is clearly supported by the evidence provided in the two sources?

• Segregated water fountains existed in every state in the South.

• Racism was institutionalized in a variety of ways in the South after the end of Reconstruction.

• The rights of African Americans were better protected in northern states than they were in southern states.

• Institutionalized racism ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.