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5.4 - 5.8 Review

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which court case ruled that "Separate but equal" facilities satisfied the 14th Amendment?

a)

Dred Scott Decision

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Elmore v. Rice

2.

How did gerrymandering impact African Americans?

a)

Allowed more African Americans to vote in the south.

b)

Removed literacy test requirements which allowed more African Americans the opportunity to vote.

c)

Allowed African Americans to vote since their grandfathers could.

d)

Redrawing of district lines so that only one had an African American majority.

3.

How did phosphate impact farmers?

a)

Destroyed cotton plants which cause farmers to fall into an economic depression.

b)

Used as pesticides to kill off the boll weevil and army worm.

c)

Used for fertilizers.

d)

Created erosion of the land.

4.

What political party was formed with the needs of small farmers kept in mind?

a)

Grange

b)

Populist

c)

Democrats

d)

Redeemers

5.

Why did poor white farmers in SC accept the leadership of Ben Tillman?

a)

Because he threatened to attack the president with a pitchfork.

b)

Because he created Clemson University.

c)

Because he invented new profitable ways of farming.

d)

Because of his great oratory and political skills.

6.

Provide the 3 reasons why immigrants did not move to SC.

a)

Few industrial jobs

b)

Lack of farm land

c)

Economic depression was taking place

d)

Racism and the Ku Klux Klan

7.

Define "nativism"

a)

A dislike of people who are of a different race

b)

A dislike of people who are not from this country

c)

A fear of immigrants

d)

When you are not from the country that you live in

8.

Which amendment provided women's suffrage / right to vote?

a)

16th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

9.

What role did "muckrakers" play during the Progressive Era?

a)

Provided jobs to immigrants coming to America.

b)

Wrote and took pictures of the wrongs in American society.

c)

Were elected representatives who became corrupt.

d)

Southerners who moved to the cities in the North in the late 19th century.

10.

What was an issue that was addressed during the Progressive Era? Must choose 3.

a)

Women's suffrage

b)

Rights for African Americans

c)

Child labor

d)

Temperance / prohibition

11.

Why did Ben Tillman want to replace the SC Constitution written in 1868?

a)

It gave women the right to vote.

b)

It was written by Southern Democrats.

c)

It disenfranchised African Americans.

d)

It was written by Freedmen, carpetbaggers + scalwags.

12.

Why did the Conservative Elite in SC resist industry following the Reconstruction era?

a)

They wanted to take advantage of African American sharecroppers.

b)

They felt industry was less noble than agriculture.

c)

The work was too easy, even children could work in factories.

d)

They thought there was no money to be made in industry.

13.

Which law allowed creditors to keep a farmers crop if the farmer was in debt?

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Sedition Act

c)

Crop lien law

d)

Sharecropping law

14.

What crops were SC farmers turning to due to overproduction and the economic depression in the state? Choose 2 answers.

a)

Cotton

b)

Peaches

c)

Tobacco

d)

Rice

15.

What did Progressives believe Prohibition was going to accomplish? Choose 2 answers.

a)

Add jobs

b)

Improve family life

c)

End child labor

d)

Reduce crime

16.

Which amendment established a federal income tax?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

17.

Which 2 governors in SC supported reform and provided improvements to education?

a)

Richard Manning

b)

James F. Byrnes

c)

Robert Cooper

d)

Wade Hampton

18.

What was started in SC and to control the sale of alcohol by the state government?

a)

State Rights

b)

State Asylum

c)

State Dispensary

d)

State Blue Laws

19.

What was causing African Americans to leave SC for cities in the north and west? Choose all that apply.

a)

Agricultural depression

b)

Social discrimination of Jim Crow Laws

c)

More land available to farm on

d)

Ravages of the boll weevil