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Question 11 out of 1 points
In 1868, Ulysses S. GrantAnswer
Selected Answer: entered the White House with no political
experience.
Correct Answer: entered the White House with no political
experience.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #31Page: 424
Question 21 out of 1 points
All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPTAnswer
Selected Answer: President Ulysses
Grant.
Correct Answer: President Ulysses
Grant.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #32Page: 424
Question 31 out of 1 points
Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 41 out of 1 points
As sharecroppers, the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #75Page: 423
Question 51 out of 1 points
Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #91Page: 439
Question 61 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so becauseAnswer
Selected Answer: they were not fit enough to survive in
the market.
Correct Answer: they were not fit enough to survive in
the market.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #26Page: 481
Question 71 out of 1 points
In his books, Horatio AlgerAnswer
Selected Answer: emphasized the value of personal character
in business.
Correct Answer: emphasized the value of personal character
in business.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #29Page: 486
Question 81 out of 1 points
Social Darwinism was designed to eliminate competition in the marketplace.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #66Page: 481
Question 91 out of 1 points
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles wasAnswer
Selected Answer: the moving
assembly line.
Correct Answer: the moving
assembly line.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #15Page: 476
Question 101 out of 1 points
During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped byAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Correct Answer: All these answers are
correct.
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #18Page: 478
Question 111 out of 1 points
In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?Answer
Selected Answer: ste
el
Correct Answer: ste
el
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #47Page: 495
Question 121 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor ofAnswer
Selected Answer: a single land tax to replace all
other taxes.
Correct Answer: a single land tax to replace all
other taxes.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #32Page: 486
Question 131 out of 1 points
In the Homestead strike of 1892, the Pinkertons were brought in on the side of labor.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
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Question 140 out of 1 points
Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #70Page: 485
Question 15
1 out of 1 points
All the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPTAnswer
Selected Answer: Atlant
a.
Correct Answer: Atlant
a.
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #7Page: 473
Question 161 out of 1 points
In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,Answer
Selected Answer: one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all
manufacturing.
Correct Answer: one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all
manufacturing.
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #23Page: 480
Question 171 out of 1 points
The Haymarket Square riot of 1886Answer
Selected Answer: resulted in the conviction and execution of
several anarchists.
Correct Answer: resulted in the conviction and execution of
several anarchists.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #45Page: 495
Question 181 out of 1 points
During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United StatesAnswer
Selected Answer: increased
significantly.
Correct Answer: increased
significantly.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #39Page: 491
Question 191 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPTAnswer
Selected Answer: the automobile
industry.
Correct Answer: the automobile
industry.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #8Page: 473
Question 201 out of 1 points
Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #68Page: 485
Question 211 out of 1 points
Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,Answer
Selected Answer: imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were
combined into one great trust.
Correct Answer: imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were
combined into one great trust.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #33Page: 486-487
Question 221 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De LeonAnswer
Selected Answer: led the Socialist Labor Party in the
United States.
Correct Answer: led the Socialist Labor Party in the
United States.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #31Page: 485
Question 230 out of 1 points
The history of American business organization saw the "pool" replace the "trust."Answer
Selected Answer:
[None Given]
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 17 #61Page: 479
Question 241 out of 1 points
In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporationsAnswer
Selected Answer: led to a diversification of research
interests.
Correct Answer: led to a diversification of research
interests.
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #13Page: 475
Question 251 out of 1 points
Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 17 #67Page: 485
Question 26
1 out of 1 points
Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #49Page: 444
Question 271 out of 1 points
In the 1870s, nearly one out of every eighty miners was killed on the job.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #64Page: 453
Question 281 out of 1 points
The western working class was highly multiracial and stratified along racial lines.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #61Page: 451
Question 291 out of 1 points
Women in nineteenth-century western mining townsAnswer
Selected Answer: often found work doing
domestic tasks.
Correct Answer: often found work doing
domestic tasks.
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #19Page: 452
Question 301 out of 1 points
By the end of the nineteenth century, the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
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correct Brinkley - Chapter 16 #60Page: 451
President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Page: 418
Question 2
1 out of 1 points
The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 3
1 out of 1 points
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
Answer
Selected Answer:
the crime of lynching.
Correct Answer:
the crime of lynching.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 4
1 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to
Answer
Selected Answer:
southern white Republicans.
Correct Answer:
southern white Republicans.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 5
1 out of 1 points
The "New South creed" was expounded by whites, not blacks.
Answer
Selected Answer: False
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 6
1 out of 1 points
By 1880, more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the United States.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 7
1 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from
Answer
Selected Answer:
barbed wire.
Correct Answer:
barbed wire.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 8
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Hamlin Garland wrote novels celebrating the hope and spirit of the American West.
Answer
Selected Answer: True
Correct Answer: False
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incorrect
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Question 9
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The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
Answer
Selected Answer:
All these answers are correct.
Correct Answer:
All these answers are correct.
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correct
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Question 10
1 out of 1 points
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
Answer
Selected Answer:
All these answers are correct.
Correct Answer:
All these answers are correct.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 11
1 out of 1 points
The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in
Answer
Selected Answer:
Pennsylvania.
Correct Answer:
Pennsylvania.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 12
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892?
Answer
Selected Answer:
The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.
Correct Answer:
The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 13
1 out of 1 points
Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?
Answer
Selected Answer:
James J. Hill
Correct Answer:
James J. Hill
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 14
1 out of 1 points
Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.
Answer
Selected Answer: False
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 15
1 out of 1 points
The Knights of Labor were followed by the American Federation of Labor as the most significant national labor union.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 16
0 out of 1 points
Neither Henry George nor Edward Bellamy was an advocate of revolution.
Answer
Selected Answer: False
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Question 17
1 out of 1 points
In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in
Answer
Selected Answer:
Europe.
Correct Answer:
Europe.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 18
1 out of 1 points
The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 19
0 out of 1 points
Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union.
Answer
Selected Answer: True
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Question 20
1 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
Answer
Selected Answer:
All these answers are correct.
Correct Answer:
All these answers are correct.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 21
1 out of 1 points
Social Darwinism was an ideology that had its critics, but it did have a lot to do with the realities of the late nineteenth-century corporate economy.
Answer
Selected Answer: False
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 22
1 out of 1 points
By 1900, some workers had the legal right to compensation for injuries suffered on the job.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 23
1 out of 1 points
The Haymarket Square riot of 1886
Answer
Selected Answer:
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
Correct Answer:
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #45Page: 495
Question 24
1 out of 1 points
In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.
Answer
Selected Answer: False
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #74Page: 489
Question 25
1 out of 1 points
The great railroad strike of 1877
Answer
Selected Answer:
was launched in response to a wage cut.
Correct Answer:
was launched in response to a wage cut.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 26
1 out of 1 points
The Knights of Labor
Answer
Selected Answer:
began as a secret fraternal organization.
Correct Answer:
began as a secret fraternal organization.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 27
1 out of 1 points
Carnegie Steel was a good example of vertical integration.
Answer
Selected Answer: Tru
e
Correct Answer: Tru
e
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 28
1 out of 1 points
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was
Answerthe moving assembly line.
the moving assembly line.
Question 29
1 out of 1 points
Most of the late nineteenth-century business tycoons began their careers in poverty or lower-class circumstances.
Answer
Selected Answer: False
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
correct
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Question 11 out of 1 points
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired
Answer
Selected Answer:
Alaska.
Correct Answer:
Alaska.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Page: 425
Question 2
1 out of 1 points
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,
Answer
Selected Answer:
Johnson was acquitted by one vote.
Correct Answer:
Johnson was acquitted by one vote.
Response Feedback:
correct
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Page: 418
Question 3
1 out of 1 points
In the 1860s, Black Codes were
Answer
Selected Answer:
designed to give whites control over freedmen.
Correct Answer:
designed to give whites control over freedmen.
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 15 #11
Page: 416
Question 4
1 out of 1 points
After the Civil War, most southern black women
Answer
Selected Answer:
engaged in income-producing activities.
Correct Answer:
engaged in income-producing activities.
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 15 #30
Page: 424
Question 5
0 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, black family roles soon came to resemble similar roles
within white families.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 15 #76
Page: 424
Question 6
1 out of 1 points
Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of
competing oil companies in Ohio?
Answer
Selected Answer:
John D. Rockefeller
Correct Answer:
John D. Rockefeller
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #2
Page: 479
Question 7
0 out of 1 points
In 1917, automobile production in the United States
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
saw nearly five million cars on American roads.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #11
Page: 474
Question 8
0 out of 1 points
Samuel Gompers was the leader of the
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
American Federation of Labor.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #44
Page: 494
Question 9
0 out of 1 points
Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner could both be called Social
Darwinists.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #64
Page: 481
Question 10
0 out of 1 points
The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #49
Page: 496
Question 11
0 out of 1 points
The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #79
Page: 493
Question 12
0 out of 1 points
The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #73
Page: 487
Question 13
0 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains
for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers, which did not exist.
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incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #52
Page: 496-497
Question 14
0 out of 1 points
The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #30
Page: 485
Question 15
0 out of 1 points
By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
None of these answers is correct.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Page: 490
Question 16
0 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in
favor of
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
a single land tax to replace all other taxes.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #32
Page: 486
Question 17
0 out of 1 points
The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in
response to the needs of the steel industry.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #54
Page: 473
Question 18
0 out of 1 points
Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of
1892?
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #48
Page: 495
Question 19
0 out of 1 points
Henry Ford built the first gasoline-driven motor vehicle in America.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #56
Page: 474
Question 20
0 out of 1 points
Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #36
Page: 490
Question 21
0 out of 1 points
Social Darwinism was designed to eliminate competition in the marketplace.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #66
Page: 481
Question 22
0 out of 1 points
In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #74
Page: 489
Question 23
0 out of 1 points
Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #68
Page: 485
Question 24
0 out of 1 points
By 1900, factory work in the United States required ever-increasing levels of
skill.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #76
Page: 491
Question 25
0 out of 1 points
Originally, the American Federation of Labor was not willing to engage in
strikes.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: False
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 17 #82
Page: 495
Question 26
0 out of 1 points
Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
Brinkley - Chapter 16 #49
Page: 444
Question 27
0 out of 1 points
The Rocky Mountain School of painting
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Page: 455
Question 28
0 out of 1 points
During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
referred to Chinese indentured servants.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Page: 447
Question 29
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In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer:
portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Page: 456
Question 30
0 out of 1 points
During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle
industry became increasingly corporate.
Answer
Selected Answer: [None Given]
Correct Answer: True
Response Feedback:
incorrect
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Page: 454Question 30
1 out of 1 points
In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
Answer
Selected Answer:
saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
Correct Answer:
saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
Response correct
Feedback:Brinkley - Chapter 17 #1
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired alaskaAnswer
Question 20 out of 1 points
The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.Answer
false
0 out of 1 points
The Freedmen’s Bureau was a civilian agency under the control of the State Department.Answer
False
Question 40 out of 1 points
In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South decreased for both blacks and whitesAnswer
Question 50 out of 1 points
The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote, but he did not win the presidency. TrueAnswer
Question 61 out of 1 points
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) thatAnswer
Selected Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had
equal "accommodations."
Question 70 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,Answer
Selected Answer:
.
Correct Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by
blacks increased.
1 out of 1 points
The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Question 90 out of 1 points
Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln.Answer
false
Question 101 out of 1 points
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue ofAnswer
Selected Answer: suffrag
e.
Question 111 out of 1 points
Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Question 120 out of 1 points
As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical RepublicansAnswer
Selected Answer:
Correct Answer: proposed abolishing the
Court.
Response Feedback:
Question 131 out of 1 points
Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.Answer
True1 out of 1 points
In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit systemAnswer
Selected Answer:
encouraged the planting of cash crops.
Question 151 out of 1 points
The Tenure of Office ActAnswer
Selected Answer: was designed to limit President Andrew
Johnson's authority.
Question 161 out of 1 points
African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Question 171 out of 1 points
As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,Answer
Selected Answer: Radicals sought a range of punishments for white
southerners.
Question 181 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred toAnswer
Selected Answer: southern white
Republicans.
Question 191 out of 1 points
Among other ideas, Booker T. WashingtonAnswer
Favored industrial over classical0 out of 1 points
All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPTAnswer
Prez ullyses s grant1 out of 1 points
In 1865, southern blacks defined "freedom" asAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Question 221 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the southern school systemAnswer
Selected Answer: eventually reached 40 percent of all
black children.
Question 231 out of 1 points
The Freedmen's BureauAnswer
Selected Answer: distributed food to millions of
southern blacks.
Question 241 out of 1 points
By the time of his death, Lincoln's sympathies had shifted from essential allegiance to the moderate wing of his party to casting his lot with the Radical Republicans.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Question 251 out of 1 points
Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.Answer
False1 out of 1 points
In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" asAnswer
Selected Answer: controlling their future without northern
interference.
Question 271 out of 1 points
Jim Crow lawsAnswer
Selected Answer: imposed a system of state-supported
segregation.
Question 281 out of 1 points
President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to theAnswer
Selected Answer: number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths
before setting up a state government.
Question 291 out of 1 points
After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by separating themselves from white institutions.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Question 300 out of 1 points
In the 1860s, Black Codes wereAnswer
Correct Answer: designed to give whites control over
freedmen.
Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #85Page: 431
Question 21 out of 1 points
In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. WashingtonAnswer
Selected Answer: called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of
racial segregation.
Correct Answer: called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of
racial segregation.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #47Page: 436
Question 30 out of 1 points
"Scalawags" were southerners who moved north after the Civil War.Answer
Correct Answer:
False
k:
Question 41 out of 1 points
President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #67Page: 418
Question 5
1 out of 1 points
After the Civil War, most poor rural southerners relied on credit fromAnswer
Selected Answer: country
stores.
Correct Answer: country
stores.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #28Page: 422
Question 61 out of 1 points
In late-nineteenth-century southern politics, economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #92Page: 440
Question 71 out of 1 points
Black sharecroppingAnswer
Selected Answer: was a very common occupation of
former slaves.
Correct Answer: was a very common occupation of
former slaves.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #25
Page: 423
Question 81 out of 1 points
The Panic of 1873 was the worst the country had faced to that point in its history.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #80Page: 425
Question 91 out of 1 points
Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi were among the first states to comply with congressional Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #66Page: 417
Question 101 out of 1 points
Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871Answer
Selected Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks
in the South.
Correct Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks
in the South.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #37
Page: 426
Question 111 out of 1 points
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,Answer
Selected Answer: Johnson was acquitted by
one vote.
Correct Answer: Johnson was acquitted by
one vote.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #18Page: 418
Question 121 out of 1 points
In the 1860s, Black Codes wereAnswer
Selected Answer: designed to give whites control over
freedmen.
Correct Answer: designed to give whites control over
freedmen.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #11Page: 416
Question 130 out of 1 points
At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage wasAnswer
Correct Answer: almost 4
million.
Question 141 out of 1 points
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue ofAnswer
Selected Answer: suffrag
e.
Correct Answer: suffrag
e.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #14Page: 417
Question 151 out of 1 points
All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPTAnswer
Selected Answer: President Ulysses
Grant.
Correct Answer: President Ulysses
Grant.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #32Page: 424
Question 161 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the black labor force workedAnswer
Selected Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case
during slavery.
Correct Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case
during slavery.
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 15 #27Page: 422
Question 171 out of 1 points
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) thatAnswer
Selected Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had
equal "accommodations."
Correct Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had
equal "accommodations."
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #48Page: 436-437
Question 181 out of 1 points
President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to theAnswer
Selected Answer: number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths
before setting up a state government.
Correct Answer: number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths
before setting up a state government.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #7Page: 414
Question 191 out of 1 points
The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in a resounding victory for the Republicans.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Tru
Answer: e
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #65Page: 416
Question 201 out of 1 points
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because heAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Correct Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #17Page: 418
Question 211 out of 1 points
Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #53Page: 411
Question 221 out of 1 points
Despite defeat in the Civil War, white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Fals
Answer: e
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #73Page: 421
Question 231 out of 1 points
Advocates of the "New South"Answer
Selected Answer: promoted southern industry and railroad
development.
Correct Answer: promoted southern industry and railroad
development.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #43Page: 431
Question 241 out of 1 points
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquiredAnswer
Selected Answer: Alask
a.
Correct Answer: Alask
a.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #34Page: 425
Question 250 out of 1 points
The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
False
Question 261 out of 1 points
The most numerous Republicans in the South were the black freedmen.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Question 271 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, though the black share of profits were rising, the total profits of southern agriculture were declining.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Question 281 out of 1 points
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agricultureAnswer
Selected Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the
tenant system.
Correct Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the
tenant system.
Question 290 out of 1 points
In the South during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,Answer
Correct Answer: textile manufacturing increased ninefold.
\
Question 301 out of 1 points
In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
Answer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Question 11 out of 1 points
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attackingAnswer
Selected Answer: the crime of
lynching.
Correct Answer: the crime of
lynching.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #52Page: 439
Question 21 out of 1 points
Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective ifAnswer
Selected Answer: the federal government had better enforced the laws
designed to assist blacks.
Correct Answer: the federal government had better enforced the laws
designed to assist blacks.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #41Page: 429-430
Question 31 out of 1 points
The assassination of President Abraham LincolnAnswer
Selected Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the
administration.
Correct Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the
administration.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #9Page: 415
Question 41 out of 1 points
In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham LincolnAnswer
Selected Answer: insisted that the Confederacy had no legal
right to exist.
Correct Answer: insisted that the Confederacy had no legal
right to exist.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #1Page: 412
Question 51 out of 1 points
As president, Andrew JohnsonAnswer
Selected Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty
to the United States.
Correct Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty
to the United States.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #10Page: 415-416
Question 61 out of 1 points
In 1868, Ulysses S. GrantAnswer
Selected Answer: entered the White House with no political
experience.
Correct Answer: entered the White House with no political
experience.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #31Page: 424
Question 71 out of 1 points
Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #87Page: 434
Question 81 out of 1 points
After the Civil War, most poor rural southerners relied on credit fromAnswer
Selected Answer: country
stores.
Correct Answer: country
stores.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #28Page: 422
Question 91 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, fedeemed" governments of theeAnswer
Selected Answer: northern white veterans who moved to
the South.
Correct Answer: northern white veterans who moved to
the South.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #20Page: 419
Question 100 out of 1 points
Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
incorrect Brinkley - Chapter 15 #81Page: 425
Question 111 out of 1 points
The Fourteenth AmendmentAnswer
Selected Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the
United States.
Correct Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the
United States.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #12Page: 416
Question 121 out of 1 points
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agricultureAnswer
Selected Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the
tenant system.
Correct Answer: saw the great majority of farmers live under the
tenant system.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #45Page: 434
Question 131 out of 1 points
In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" asAnswer
Selected Answer: controlling their future without northern
interference.
Correct Answer: controlling their future without northern
interference.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #4Page: 413
Question 141 out of 1 points
After the Civil War, most southern black womenAnswer
Selected Answer: engaged in income-producing
activities.
Question 151 out of 1 points
National support for Reconstruction was undermined byAnswer
Selected
Answer: All these answers are correct.
Question 161 out of 1 points
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) thatAnswer
Selected Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had
equal "accommodations."
Question 171 out of 1 points
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue ofAnswer
Selected Answer: suffrag
e.
Question 181 out of 1 points
Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth-century South resulted in declining violence against blacks.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Question 191 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,Answer
Selected Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by
blacks increased.
Question 201 out of 1 points
The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Question 211 out of 1 points
Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #53Page: 411
Question 221 out of 1 points
"Scalawags" were southerners who moved north after the Civil War.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #68Page: 419
Question 231 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, southern African American officeholdersAnswer
Selected Answer: underrepresented the total number of blacks
living in the South.
Question 241 out of 1 points
In most parts of the South, the "Redeemer" government constituted a genuinely new ruling class.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Question 251 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the black labor force workedAnswer
Selected Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case
during slavery.
Correct Answer: significantly fewer hours than had been the case
during slavery.
Question 261 out of 1 points
The "redeemed" governments of the SouthAnswer
Selected Answer: saw an end to occupation by
federal troops.
Question 271 out of 1 points
In the South during the last quarter of the nineteenth century,Answer
Selected Answer: textile manufacturing increased
ninefold.
Question 281 out of 1 points
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because heAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Question 291 out of 1 points
African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Question 301 out of 1 points
In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. WashingtonAnswer
Selected Answer: called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of
racial segregation.
uestion 11 out of 1 points
The assassination of President Abraham LincolnAnswer
Selected Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the
administration.
Correct Answer: involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the
administration.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #9Page: 415
Question 21 out of 1 points
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquiredAnswer
Selected Answer: Alask
a.
Correct Answer: Alask
a.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #34Page: 425
Question 31 out of 1 points
Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many northerners claimed.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #53Page: 411
Question 41 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, per capita income for southernersAnswer
Selected Answer: rose for blacks and declined
for whites.
Correct Answer: rose for blacks and declined
for whites.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #26Page: 422
Question 51 out of 1 points
In most parts of the South, the "Redeemer" government constituted a genuinely new ruling class.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #84Page: 431
Question 61 out of 1 points
Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #85Page: 431
Question 71 out of 1 points
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because heAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Correct Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #17Page: 418
Question 81 out of 1 points
Jim Crow lawsAnswer
Selected Answer: imposed a system of state-supported
segregation.
Correct Answer: imposed a system of state-supported
segregation.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #50Page: 438
Question 91 out of 1 points
National support for Reconstruction was undermined byAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Correct Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 15 #38Page: 426-427
Question 101 out of 1 points
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue ofAnswer
Selected Answer: suffrag
e.
Correct Answer: suffrag
e.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #14Page: 417
Question 111 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,Answer
Selected Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by
blacks increased.
Correct Answer: ownership by whites declined, while ownership by
blacks increased.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #24Page: 421
Question 121 out of 1 points
Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Fals
Answer: e
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #81Page: 425
Question 131 out of 1 points
As president, Andrew JohnsonAnswer
Selected Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty
to the United States.
Correct Answer: offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty
to the United States.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #10Page: 415-416
Question 141 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, southern African American officeholdersAnswer
Selected Answer: underrepresented the total number of blacks
living in the South.
Correct Answer: underrepresented the total number of blacks
living in the South.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #21Page: 419
Question 151 out of 1 points
The Fourteenth AmendmentAnswer
Selected Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the
United States.
Correct Answer: gave citizenship rights to all people born in the
United States.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #12Page: 416
Question 161 out of 1 points
Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871Answer
Selected Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks
in the South.
Correct Answer: was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks
in the South.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #37Page: 426
Question 171 out of 1 points
The elections of 1876 sawAnswer
Selected Answer: the candidate with the most popular votes fail
to get elected.
Correct Answer: the candidate with the most popular votes fail
to get elected.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #39Page: 427
Question 181 out of 1 points
In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit systemAnswer
Selected Answer: encouraged the planting of
cash crops.
Correct Answer: encouraged the planting of
cash crops.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #29Page: 423
Question 191 out of 1 points
State expenditures by southern governments during Reconstruction were large, but only in comparison with the meager state budgets of the pre-Civil War years.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #71Page: 420
Question 201 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the southern school systemAnswer
Selected Answer: eventually reached 40 percent of all
black children.
Correct Answer: eventually reached 40 percent of all
black children.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter
15 #23Page: 420
Question 211 out of 1 points
President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #67Page: 418
Question 221 out of 1 points
During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred toAnswer
Selected Answer: southern white
Republicans.
Correct Answer: southern white
Republicans.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #19Page: 419
Question 231 out of 1 points
The Black Codes helped President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
False
Correct Answer:
False
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #63Page: 416
Question 241 out of 1 points
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,Answer
Selected Answer: Johnson was acquitted by
one vote.
Correct Answer: Johnson was acquitted by
one vote.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #18Page: 418
Question 251 out of 1 points
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) thatAnswer
Selected Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had
equal "accommodations."
Correct Answer: racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had
equal "accommodations."
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #48Page: 436-437
Question 261 out of 1 points
In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" asAnswer
Selected Answer: controlling their future without northern
interference.
Correct Answer: controlling their future without northern
interference.
Response Feedback:
correct
Brinkley - Chapter 15 #4Page: 413
Question 271 out of 1 points
After the Civil War, most southern black womenAnswer
Selected Answer: engaged in income-producing
activities.
Correct Answer: engaged in income-producing
activities.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #30Page: 424
Question 281 out of 1 points
Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #87Page: 434
Question 291 out of 1 points
Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.Answer
Selected Answer:
True
Correct Answer:
True
Response correct
Feedback: Brinkley - Chapter 15 #89Page: 435
Question 301 out of 1 points
In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came fromAnswer
Selected Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Correct Answer: All these answers are
correct.
Response Feedback:
correct Brinkley - Chapter 15 #49Page: 437-438
. In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.)
2. Who among the following did NOT make significant contributions to communication technology?... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Charles F. Brush)
3. Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was saw little development.)
4. The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was both A and B)
5. The open-hearth process of making steel... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was made the production of large dimension pieces possible.)
6. In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in)
7. All of the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Atlanta.)
8. In the late nineteenth century, the transportation needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the development of all of the following EXCEPT... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was the automobile company.)
9. The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Pennsylvania.)
10. In the 1870s, the “internal combustion engine” was developed in... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Europe.)
11. In 1917, automobile production in the United States... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was saw five million cars on American roads.)
12. Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful airplane flight in 1903... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was A and B)
13. In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was led to a diversification of research interests.)
14. Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was James J. Hill)
15. A key to Henry Ford’s success in mass production of automobiles was to... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was use interchangeable parts.)
16. In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was $290.)
17. In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was included the nation’s largest businesses.)
18. During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was both A and B)
19. The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was vertical integration)
20. The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was both A and B)
21. To John D. Rockefeller, the great “curse” of business in the late nineteenth century was... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was cutthroat competition.)
22. In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.)
23. In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was began their careers from positions of wealth.)
24. The social theory of Social Darwinism... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth.)
25. In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was racism and other prejudices held them back.)
26. In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was
... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Herbert Spencer.)
27. According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth, ... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was the rich had great responsibilities to society.)
28. In his books, Horatio Alger... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was emphasized the value of personal character in business.)
29. The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.)
30. The late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.)
31. In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was a single land tax to replace all other taxes.)
32. Edward Bellamy’s 1888 book, Looking Backward... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.)
33. In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was both A and B)
34. During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Great Britain and northern Europe.)
35. Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.)
36. In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers did not exist.)
37. In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories,... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.)
38. During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was increased significantly since 1865.)
39. The Molly Maguires were a militant... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was labor union in the coal industry.)
40. The great railroad strike of 1877... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was was launched in response to a wage cut.)
41. The Knights of Labor... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was began as a secret fraternal organization.)
42. The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor were divided by their positions on... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was all of the above)
43. Samuel Gompers was the leader of the... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was American Federation of Labor.)
44. The Haymarket Square riot of 1886... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.)
45. During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was both A and B)
46. In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was steel)
47. Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead Strike of 1892?... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Hundred of guards hired by Homestead were defeated in a deadly battle with strikers.)
48. Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was Pullman strike)
49. The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy)
50. The Pullman strike of 1894... INCORRECT
(The correct answer was saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.)
51. ... CORRECT