The main objective of most African Americans after the Civil War was __________. A) education B) legislative influence C) a high-wage job D) economic autonomy ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
At the time of the First Reconstruction Act, which of these states had a black electoral majority? A) Tennessee B) Kentucky C) Virginia D) South Carolina ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
How do the changes on the Barrow Plantation from 1860 to 1881 illustrate the progress of blacks and the limits they faced? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: mobility; opportunity; civil and economic rights; change and continuity
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Mormons’ most controversial practice was __________. A) granting citizenship to Indians B) allowing women to be priests C) polygamy D) equal distribution of property ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
John Deere is famous for inventing a __________. A) reaper B) singing plow C) cultivator D) disease-proof strain of wheat ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In mining boomtowns known as “Helldorados,” __________. A) miners set up communities that were very similar to small towns in the east B) men outnumbered women by as much as ten to one C) racial diversity did not lead to racial conflict D) the town center was usually a church ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
This financier was popularly known as the “worst man in the world.” A) Andrew Carnegie B) Jay Gould C) John Jacob Astor D) John D. Rockefeller ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
African American workers in the New South __________. A) were limited to the lowest-paying unskilled jobs B) made the same wages as their white counterparts C) were guaranteed equal opportunity by law D) benefited as new opportunities opened for unskilled labor ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
For the most part, southern enterprises mainly produced raw materials for consumption or use in __________. A) the West B) Europe C) the South D) the North ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to regulate __________. A) trade unions B) monopolistic trusts C) multinational corporations D) railroads ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
