Unit 8-10 review

The Populist Party was established in the 1890's to

• protect the political and economic interest of farmers and laborers

• reduce the tax burden on the wealthy industrialist class

• ensure the US stayed on the gold standard

As members of the Bourbon Triumvirate, Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon all supported

• equal rights for newly freed slaves

• high taxes for state residents

• expanding the railroad system

Which of these BEST describes the purpose of the Rural Free Delivery Act of 1893?

• to provide free medical care to mothers living in rural areas of the United States

• to provide free mail services to isolated areas of the country

• to provide food delivery to people at no extra cost

• to provide newspaper and radio service to people

Which of these BEST describes the differences between W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington?

• DuBois wanted to negotiate with white leaders, but Washington believed that total segregation was needed.

• Washington was an accommodationist and DuBois believed that blacks should have the same rights as whites.

• Washington believed that blacks should protest peacefully while DuBois believed that violence was necessary.

The Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson

• 
  was overturned by the Fifteenth Amendment.

• eliminated racial segregation in state universities.

• upheld the principle of separate but equal.

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

• 
  provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

• gain the vote for millions of former slaves

• provide 40 acres and a mule to each former slave

What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

• White Citizen Councils

• 
  Ku Klux Klan

• 
  Freedmen's Bureau

This system of agriculture developed in the late 19th century, in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a portion of what was produced. It was called

• sharecropping

• communal agriculture

• contact farming

What amendment gave African American men in the South the right to vote?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 16th amendment

The "Leo Frank case" is MOST associated with which of these?

• child labor

• segregation

• anti-Semitism