Period 6 Quiz

Which organization was an early attempt by farmers to provide social and educational opportunities along with cooperatives?

• the National Grange

• the Farmer's Cooperative

• the Populist Party

• the Knights of Labor

The first significant attempt by the federal government to regulate industry was called the

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Hatch Act

• Morrill Act

• Homestead Act

In the late 19th century, which of the following was NOT a challenge faced by farmers in the Great Plains and the South?

• Overcharging by railroad companies for short hauls

• High prices charged by industrial corporations

• Loss of profit due to retailers (or "middlemen")

• Competition from imports of crops from Mexico and South America

The United States Supreme Court upheld the right of states to regulate businesses of a public nature, such as railroads, with its decision in which of the following:

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Munn v. Illinois (1877)

• Wabash v. Illinois (1886)

• United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)

The Supreme Court decision that legalized racial segregation was

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Prigg v. Pennsylvania

• Ableman v. Booth

Economic progress was evident in the "New South" following Reconstruction in all the following EXCEPT:

• Birmingham, AL, developed into a leading steel producer

• Memphis, TN, prospered as a center for the South's growing lumber industry

• Richmond, VA, became the capital of the tobacco industry

• Chicago, IL, became the central hub of the South's railroad industry

The economic battle of the standards was immortalized in The Wizard of Oz, written by _____ in 1900

• Lewis Carroll

• Shel Silverstein

• Frank Baum

• Beatrix Potter

The travesty of U S government policy towards Native Americans is portrayed in the book, A Century of Dishonor. The book 's author was:

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Susan B Anthony

• Rachel Carson

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Homesteaders in the late 19th century?

• Adaptation to the environment to overcome numerous challenges

• Construction of sod-homes using cut bricks of land and grass

• Regular encounters with Native Americans in the new territories

• Use of windmills for drilling into the soil to find water sources

What was the primary objective of the Dawes Act towards Native Americans?

• It aimed to start a series of Indian Wars on the Great Plains

• It aimed to assimilate them into mainstream culture by allocating lands to individual Indians

• It aimed to retain original tribal territory through a peace treaty with the U.S. Army

• It aimed to support their existing cultural tribal traditions and customs