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Alabama Studies Weekly Week 20

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was not one of the Populist Party’s ideas?

a)

lower railroad rates on farm products

b)

repeal the 17th Amendment

c)

put more money into circulation

d)

allow all voters to vote on U.S. senators

2.

What two new kinds of schools were founded in Alabama in 1872?

a)

culinary school and journalism college

b)

theology school and anthropology college

c)

performing arts school and political science college

d)

normal school and land grant college

3.

What was Booker T. Washington’s new educational idea?

a)

frequent testing

b)

mind palace technique

c)

learning by doing

d)

mind-body connection

4.

How many years passed between when Pattie Ruffner Jacobs started the Birmingham Equal Suffrage Association and when women received the right to vote?

a)

3

b)

6

c)

9

d)

12

5.

What is a dogtrot house?

a)

a building next to a dog race track

b)

a house just a “dog trot” away from Main Street

c)

a house with a dog kennel out back

d)

a house where early settlers lived

6.

How did some Southern governments find a way to discriminate against African Americans after the Civil War?

a)

They rewrote their constitution.

b)

They closed down the State Ethics Administration buildings.

c)

They snuck discriminatory laws into larger Congressional bills.

d)

They kept using pre-Civil War law books.

7.

Approximately how many African American soldiers served between 1917–1919 in World War II?

a)

3,500

b)

35,000

c)

350,000

d)

3,500,000

8.

Which person started first grade as a 33-year-old, but ended up becoming a teacher in Africa?

a)

Richmond Pearson Hobson

b)

Helen Keller

c)

W. C. Handy

d)

Maria Fearing