Reform Era Review

Segregation means?

• The right to vote

• Honest Fraud

• Separation of the races

• Decline in the value of money

The _______ was one method of segregation used in the South after the Civil War.

• Graft

• Poll Tax

• Tenement

• Cooperative

What was the result of the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Legalized segregation was imposed upon African Americans

• African Americans were denied equal protection under the law

• African Americans lost the right to vote

• African Americans were banned from public office

During the late 1800s, Southern states used all of the following strategies to prevent African Americans from voting EXCEPT:

• Requiring that voters could read

• Requiring that voters paid a poll tax

• Requiring that voters were members of a political party

• Requiring that voters owned land

What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

• Allow African Americans to run for office

• Get rid of child labor

• Have a segregated society

• Give African Americans the right to vote

What did Du Bois and other NAACP founders believe was essential to end racial violence?

• Higher paying jobs for low income citizens

• Establishment of African American Colleges

• Private schools for African American children

• Voting rights for African Americans

Farmers moving to cities were one cause of rapid urbanization. Why were they moving to cities?

• More entertainment possibilities

• Better paying jobs and a larger variety of jobs

• All of the following are reasons why

• Running water, electricity, and plumbing was in the major cities

The working class was made up of all of the following groups EXCEPT

• White factory workers

• Immigrants

• African Americans

• White doctors

The rapid increase in the money supply without an increase in the amount of goods for sale caused _______________, or the decline in the value of money.

• Inflation

• Deflation

• Stagflation

• Recession

The __________ was an informal political group that provided city services in return for votes and political power.

• Party bosses

• Populists

• Grange

• Political Machines