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William Jennings Bryan:
a. called for the unrestricted mining of silver.
b. angered Populists after giving a fiery convention speech denouncing the "free coinage" of
silver.
c. failed to win enough support from the Democratic Party as the nominee for president in 1896.
d. entered politics late in life, after a successful career as a Methodist minister.
e. had a weak presidential campaign after he refused numerous speaking engagements. -
CORRECT ANSWER - B
Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:
a. was a stage actor of some renown.
b. ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.
c. argued in favor of the gold standard.
d. lost to Bryan in 1896.
e. was especially popular in the South. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?
a. William McKinley's victory ended the political stalemate that had persisted since 1876.
b. The Populist Party declined after the election.
c. The election is considered the first modern presidential campaign.
d. McKinley's campaign raised millions of dollars compared to Bryan's.
e. William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard. - CORRECT ANSWER
-E
Critics later interpreted the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a commentary on the
1896 presidential election in which of the following ways?
, a. Glenda, the Good Witch, represents candidate William Jennings Bryan, champion of
goodness.
b. The angry monkeys chasing Dorothy are stand-ins for Republican Party members seeking to
trample the rights of workers.
c. The Wicked Witch of the East symbolizes oppressive eastern industrialists.
d. The Emerald City suggests a green, unspoiled landscape still sought after by western voters.
e. The Wizard of Oz represents John D. Rockefeller. - CORRECT ANSWER - D
Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?
a. Churches.
b. Public schools.
c. Mental health facilities.
d. Jails.
e. Sharecropping. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
With the Redeemers in power in the South:
a. Louisiana became the only state in the Union where white illiteracy rates actually increased.
b. convict labor, rented out to private business owners, became a profitable venture for railroad,
mining, and lumber companies.
c. taxes on white landowners increased in most southern states to raise badly needed revenue for
shrinking state budgets.
d. A and B
e. B and C - CORRECT ANSWER - D
The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:
a. signified the widespread economic prosperity in the region.
b. promised racial equality between blacks and whites.
c. appealed to eastern European immigrants.
d. meant higher wages for unskilled workers, regardless of race.
e. promised prosperity based on industrial expansion. - CORRECT ANSWER - E
,Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of
Reconstruction?
a. Northern investors stayed away, appalled by southern race relations.
b. Northerners considered a South without African-Americans in chains too risky for
investment.
c. Investors came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital
investments in the region.
d. Southern white supremacists tended to scare off northern capital industries.
e. Southern Klansmen scared away many interested investors. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:
a. hope for blacks to escape racial violence in the South.
b. the migration of 40,000 to 60,000 African-Americans to Kansas.
c. the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.
d. the possibility of political equality, access to education, and economic opportunity was worth
a long journey west for many African-Americans.
e. many African-Americans stayed in Kansas because they did not have the means to travel
farther. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South?
a. They formed their own secret militant organization.
b. They used their positions in domestic service for sabotage, pilfering, and revenge.
c. They insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift."
d. They stressed the supremacy of their men to counter claims that black families lacked
patriarchal order.
e. African-American women's organizations established gun clubs and shooting ranges to
improve their skills at self-defense. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:
a. were limited to holding local offices.
, b. were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists.
c. continued to hold elective office with no restrictions.
d. joined the Democratic Party.
e. supported the redrawing of congressional district lines. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?
a. White leaders presented disenfranchisement as a "good government" measure.
b. Between 1890 and 1906, every southern state enacted laws or constitutional provisions meant
to eliminate the black vote.
c. In passing various laws to restrict blacks from voting, numerous poor and illiterate whites also
lost the right to vote in the South.
d. The elimination of black and many white voters could not have been accomplished without
the approval of the North.
e. The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause. - CORRECT ANSWER - E
Plessy v. Ferguson:
a. was a unanimous decision.
b. sanctioned racial segregation.
c. voided the Thirteenth Amendment.
d. limited the hours that women could legally work.
e. was fully supported by Booker T. Washington. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
An all-encompassing system of white domination in the South was achieved through:
a. barring blacks from ever entering "whites only" railroad cars.
b. the mass exodus of over 90 percent of African-Americans to northern cities for work in
factories.
c. businesses serving whites before blacks.
d. A and B
e. refusing business to black customers. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
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William Jennings Bryan:
a. called for the unrestricted mining of silver.
b. angered Populists after giving a fiery convention speech denouncing the "free coinage" of
silver.
c. failed to win enough support from the Democratic Party as the nominee for president in 1896.
d. entered politics late in life, after a successful career as a Methodist minister.
e. had a weak presidential campaign after he refused numerous speaking engagements. -
CORRECT ANSWER - B
Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:
a. was a stage actor of some renown.
b. ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.
c. argued in favor of the gold standard.
d. lost to Bryan in 1896.
e. was especially popular in the South. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?
a. William McKinley's victory ended the political stalemate that had persisted since 1876.
b. The Populist Party declined after the election.
c. The election is considered the first modern presidential campaign.
d. McKinley's campaign raised millions of dollars compared to Bryan's.
e. William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard. - CORRECT ANSWER
-E
Critics later interpreted the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a commentary on the
1896 presidential election in which of the following ways?
, a. Glenda, the Good Witch, represents candidate William Jennings Bryan, champion of
goodness.
b. The angry monkeys chasing Dorothy are stand-ins for Republican Party members seeking to
trample the rights of workers.
c. The Wicked Witch of the East symbolizes oppressive eastern industrialists.
d. The Emerald City suggests a green, unspoiled landscape still sought after by western voters.
e. The Wizard of Oz represents John D. Rockefeller. - CORRECT ANSWER - D
Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?
a. Churches.
b. Public schools.
c. Mental health facilities.
d. Jails.
e. Sharecropping. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
With the Redeemers in power in the South:
a. Louisiana became the only state in the Union where white illiteracy rates actually increased.
b. convict labor, rented out to private business owners, became a profitable venture for railroad,
mining, and lumber companies.
c. taxes on white landowners increased in most southern states to raise badly needed revenue for
shrinking state budgets.
d. A and B
e. B and C - CORRECT ANSWER - D
The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:
a. signified the widespread economic prosperity in the region.
b. promised racial equality between blacks and whites.
c. appealed to eastern European immigrants.
d. meant higher wages for unskilled workers, regardless of race.
e. promised prosperity based on industrial expansion. - CORRECT ANSWER - E
,Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of
Reconstruction?
a. Northern investors stayed away, appalled by southern race relations.
b. Northerners considered a South without African-Americans in chains too risky for
investment.
c. Investors came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital
investments in the region.
d. Southern white supremacists tended to scare off northern capital industries.
e. Southern Klansmen scared away many interested investors. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:
a. hope for blacks to escape racial violence in the South.
b. the migration of 40,000 to 60,000 African-Americans to Kansas.
c. the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.
d. the possibility of political equality, access to education, and economic opportunity was worth
a long journey west for many African-Americans.
e. many African-Americans stayed in Kansas because they did not have the means to travel
farther. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South?
a. They formed their own secret militant organization.
b. They used their positions in domestic service for sabotage, pilfering, and revenge.
c. They insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift."
d. They stressed the supremacy of their men to counter claims that black families lacked
patriarchal order.
e. African-American women's organizations established gun clubs and shooting ranges to
improve their skills at self-defense. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:
a. were limited to holding local offices.
, b. were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists.
c. continued to hold elective office with no restrictions.
d. joined the Democratic Party.
e. supported the redrawing of congressional district lines. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?
a. White leaders presented disenfranchisement as a "good government" measure.
b. Between 1890 and 1906, every southern state enacted laws or constitutional provisions meant
to eliminate the black vote.
c. In passing various laws to restrict blacks from voting, numerous poor and illiterate whites also
lost the right to vote in the South.
d. The elimination of black and many white voters could not have been accomplished without
the approval of the North.
e. The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause. - CORRECT ANSWER - E
Plessy v. Ferguson:
a. was a unanimous decision.
b. sanctioned racial segregation.
c. voided the Thirteenth Amendment.
d. limited the hours that women could legally work.
e. was fully supported by Booker T. Washington. - CORRECT ANSWER - B
An all-encompassing system of white domination in the South was achieved through:
a. barring blacks from ever entering "whites only" railroad cars.
b. the mass exodus of over 90 percent of African-Americans to northern cities for work in
factories.
c. businesses serving whites before blacks.
d. A and B
e. refusing business to black customers. - CORRECT ANSWER - C
