HUSA Spring Sem. Quiz No. 3

The Farmers' Alliance was founded in late 1870s in:

• Oklahoma

• Texas

• Iowa

• Oregon

Who became the President of the USA as a result of 1896 elections

• James B. Weaver

• Benjamin Harrison

• William Jennings Bryan

• William McKinley

To which state nearly 60,000 African-Americans emigrated between 1879 and 1880, in search of better living conditions

• Kentucky

• Tennessee

• Kansas

• California

Supreme Court ruling on which case de facto legalized segregation in the South (1896)

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Gibbons v. Ogden

Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Frederick Douglass

• Samuel Armstrong

• Booker T. Washington

Who was founder and the first president of American Federation of Labor (AFL)

• Samuel Gompers

• Terence V. Powderly

• Eugene V. Debs

• William "Big Bill" Haywood

National American Suffrage Association emerged as a result of merger of National Suffrage Association and Women's Christian Temperance Union

• True

• False

Which lands were not acquired by the USA as a result of the Spanish-American war (1898)?

• Cuba

• Philippines

• Puerto Rico

• Guam