In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?

• Chicago

• New York

• St. Louis

• Dallas

How did railroads transform the American economy?

• Created a new white color middle class of managers

• Inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class

• Increased the role of government in the economy

• All of the above

Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities

• 1880

• 1900

• 1910

• 1920

By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?

• 20%

• 33%

• 50%

• 60%

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

• Rotary clubs

• Workmen’s clubs

• Mutual-aid societies

• Parish churches

Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Progressive Party

• Immigrant voters were nearly equally divided in their party allegiance

From 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were murdered by white mobs.

• 139

• 345

• 870

• 5,000

________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida B. Wells

• Lincoln Steffens

• Booker T. Washington

What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?

• Poll taxes

• Literacy tests

• Violence and intimidation

• All of the above

What was the Lost Cause?

• A belief that the South could never have won the war because northern soldiers exerted greater virtue and courage

• A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

• The belief among northerners that southerners would never accept racial equality

• All of the above