Question 1

What was the African American experience during the latter part of the nineteenth century? How did that experience vary depending on the region?

Accepted Answer

The African American experience during t

Question 2

Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company became the first major environmental legal victory in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

How and why did white southerners adopt Jim Crow segregation laws and take away African Americans' right to vote at the end of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

White southerners adopted Jim Crow segre

Question 4

As discontent rose among farmers in both the South and West at the end of the nineteenth century, many joined what group that claimed to represent them against the political interests
Of the North and East?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Republican party 
B)  the American Socialist party 
C)  the Greenback party 
D)  the Progressive (or "Bull Moose") party 
E)  the People's (or Populist) party 
A)  the Republican party 
B)  the American Socialist party 
C)  the Greenback party 
D)  the Progressive (or "Bull Moose") party 
E)  the People's (or Populist) party

Question 5

Who were the various groups of migrants to the West after the Civil War? Why did they move there?

Accepted Answer

After the Civil War, there were several

Question 6

Redeemers tended to be

Accepted Answer

A)  fierce advocates for women's suffrage. 
B)  southerners against the idea of the New South. 
C)  members of the Republican party. 
D)  former slaves "redeemed" by emancipation. 
E)  white Democrats who were pro-business. 
A)  fierce advocates for women's suffrage. 
B)  southerners against the idea of the New South. 
C)  members of the Republican party. 
D)  former slaves "redeemed" by emancipation. 
E)  white Democrats who were pro-business.

Question 7

Which of the following occurred as railroads brought piles of lumber to the West?

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A)  The lumber industry experienced a shortage of lumber in the East. 
B)  Farmers protested this development because lumber would overtake agriculture. 
C)  Local lumber companies protested because this was an essential western industry. 
D)  Farmers in the West could upgrade their houses into more comfortable homes. 
E)  Native Americans protested the arrival of this commodity due to loss of trade opportunities. 
A)  The lumber industry experienced a shortage of lumber in the East. 
B)  Farmers protested this development because lumber would overtake agriculture. 
C)  Local lumber companies protested because this was an essential western industry. 
D)  Farmers in the West could upgrade their houses into more comfortable homes. 
E)  Native Americans protested the arrival of this commodity due to loss of trade opportunities.

Question 8

Match each description with the item below.
-James Buchanan Duke

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A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen 
A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen

Question 9

The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was the

Accepted Answer

A)  Apache. 
B)  Comanche. 
C)  Crow. 
D)  Sioux. 
E)  Blackfeet. 
A)  Apache. 
B)  Comanche. 
C)  Crow. 
D)  Sioux. 
E)  Blackfeet.

Question 10

Compare and contrast the three western frontiers of mining, ranching, and farming.

Accepted Answer

The three western frontiers of mining, r

Question 11

Compare and contrast the responses of Booker T. Washington, W.
B. Wells to the rise of Negrophobia and Jim Crow laws in the United States in the late nineteenth century. B. Du Bois, and Ida E.

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 12

Describe the problems that settlers faced that were, in many ways, unique to the western frontier.

Accepted Answer

Settlers on the western frontier faced a

Question 13

In the crop-lien system, farmers could grow little besides cotton, tobacco, or some other cash crop.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Although an important document in American history, Turner's "frontier thesis" is in some ways problematic because it

Accepted Answer

A)  argued the frontier was an insignificant force for American history and that New England had defined America since its revolutionary beginnings. 
B)  exaggerated the homogenizing effect of the frontier environment and virtually ignored the role of women, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. 
C)  suggested the frontier could endure limitless expansion into Canada, Mexico, and even South America as transportation technologies improved. 
D)  claimed Native Americans did more to shape the frontier than white settlers because the land had long belonged just to them. 
E)  said the American frontier experience was identical to the experiences endured by all developed nations, including most of those in Europe and Asia. 
A)  argued the frontier was an insignificant force for American history and that New England had defined America since its revolutionary beginnings. 
B)  exaggerated the homogenizing effect of the frontier environment and virtually ignored the role of women, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. 
C)  suggested the frontier could endure limitless expansion into Canada, Mexico, and even South America as transportation technologies improved. 
D)  claimed Native Americans did more to shape the frontier than white settlers because the land had long belonged just to them. 
E)  said the American frontier experience was identical to the experiences endured by all developed nations, including most of those in Europe and Asia.

Exam 18: The New South and the New West

What was the African American experience during the latter part of the nineteenth century? How did that experience vary depending on the region?

Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company became the first major environmental legal victory in the United States.

How and why did white southerners adopt Jim Crow segregation laws and take away African Americans' right to vote at the end of the nineteenth century?

As discontent rose among farmers in both the South and West at the end of the nineteenth century, many joined what group that claimed to represent them against the political interests Of the North and East?

Who were the various groups of migrants to the West after the Civil War? Why did they move there?

Redeemers tended to be

Which of the following occurred as railroads brought piles of lumber to the West?

Match each description with the item below. -James Buchanan Duke

The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was the

Compare and contrast the three western frontiers of mining, ranching, and farming.

Compare and contrast the responses of Booker T. Washington, W. B. Wells to the rise of Negrophobia and Jim Crow laws in the United States in the late nineteenth century. B. Du Bois, and Ida E.

Describe the problems that settlers faced that were, in many ways, unique to the western frontier.

In the crop-lien system, farmers could grow little besides cotton, tobacco, or some other cash crop.

Although an important document in American history, Turner's "frontier thesis" is in some ways problematic because it

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