Question 1
The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following except
railroads.
cotton production.
textiles.
electricity.
iron production.
Question 2
The final act in the U.S. war against the Plains Indians took place at
Little Big Horn.
Sand Creek.
Wounded Knee.
the Canadian border.
Pine Ridge.
Question 3
The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following except
railroads.
cotton production.
textiles.
electricity.
iron production.
Question 4
Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities.
smallpox
typhoid
measles
swine flu
plague
Question 5
The Dawes Act
established segregation in all southern states.
introduced silver to the national currency.
established Indian reservations across the country.
divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land and put the land titles in a federal trust.
was designed to stimulate the development of Southern Industry.
Question 6
In his book, The Lost Cause, published just one year after the Civil War ended, Edward Pollard argued that the real reason the Civil War happened was
northern aggression against the South.
states' rights.
the South's desire to maintain slavery.
old hatred between the North and the South.
the North's desire to end slavery.
Question 7
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an editor and writer, concentrated her reform efforts on the social issue of
temperance.
disfranchisement.
women's rights.
racism.
lynching.
Question 8
Which of these was not a major reason for immigration to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
A large increase in population across Europe.
A rise in anti-Semitism, especially in Russia.
The lure of economic opportunity in America.
American advertisements placed in Western European newspapers.
Europe's Industrial Revolution, which drew too many people to the cities, where they could not find jobs.
Question 9
Henry Grady's speech, "The New South," could best be classified as
a call for a return to the plantation order.
an invitation to black Southerners to join the ranks of whites.
a romantic celebration of the Klan.
An attempt to rally the South to see their region linked not to the antebellum and slavery past but to the promises of the Industrial Revolution and the South's new spirit of enterprise.
an open critique of the Southern practice of segregation.
Question 10
The rapid growth of the southern textile industry established it as
the most successful area of industrial development for the South prior to 1900.
although for a while the textile industry did well, the North eventually surpassed it, and by 1900 it was on its last legs.
wages in southern textile mills were the same as in the North.
the production of iron had outpaced textile production by 1900.
it employed a large percentage of Southerners.