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American Pageant Chapter 23

Authored by TIMOTHY UNDERHILL

History

11th - 12th Grade

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American Pageant Chapter 23
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was NOT among the platform planks adopted by the Populist party in their convention of 1892?

Government ownership of the railroads, telephone, and telegraph

Free and unlimited coinage of silver in the ratio of 16 to 1

The adoption of the initiative petition and the referendum

Government guarantees of parity prices for farmers

Immigration restrictions

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to...

take a competitive examination.

present a written recommendation from a congressman or senator.

agree to make financial contributions to their political party.

submit a resume listing their experience and providing references.

agree not to take a job in a related private business for two years after leaving government service.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

President James A. Garfield was assassinated...

by an ex-Confederate bitter at Garfield's Union army service.

by an unknown and an undiscovered assassin.

by a jealous former lover.

by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.

by a political anarchist.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress...

negotiated a restricted-immigration agreement with China.

did nothing, as it was California's problem.

prosecuted the Kearneyites and other inciters of anti-Kearneyites in San Francisco.

sent many Chinese back to their homeland.

passed a law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

96. Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often...

criminally prosecuted in federal courts.

ostracized by their own community.

assailed from both white and black churches.

losing their sharecropping and tenant farming employment.

lynched by Southern whites.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using...

literacy requirements.

poll taxes.

onerous and intimidating voter registration laws.

lynching.

All of these choices are correct.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that...

African Americans could be denied the right to vote.

segregation was always unconstitutional.

"separate but equal" public schools and facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

African Americans born as slaves could not sue in federal court.

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