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1
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Tennessee celebrated its centennial with a huge fair called?

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The centennial exposition

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Promotors of the New south were trying to bring. more agriculture to the south

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false

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3
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by 1900, Tennessee had 3,137. miles of track

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true

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4
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in the 1890s, Tennessee had experienced an —— boom

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industrial

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according to table 8.1 on page 187, textiles were Tennessee leading industry in 1900.

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false

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according to table 8.2 which major Tennessee city had the highest percentage of population growth between 1870-1900?

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Chattanooga

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7
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Ida B. Wells led a crusade against lynching

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true

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8
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The coal miners war began because the company hired convicts from the state to break a strike?

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true

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9
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in 1878, Memphis was hit with a deadly breakout of swine flu

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false

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10
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in the 1880s, the temperance movement became more popular as an effort to outlaw alcoholic drink in the state

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true

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11
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Nashvilles most lucrative product was?

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flour

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12
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Tennessee saw phenomenal industrial growth as a result of new south efforts

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false

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13
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northern factory owners were promised “cheap, Docile” labor if they moved their factories to the south

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true

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14
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Tennessee was one of the most successful New south states

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false

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15
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by 1900, Tennessee leading industry was

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flour and grist mills

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16
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the prohibition of alcohol was one of the biggest goals of Tennessee progressives

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true

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17
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the rich elite led the way in achieving progressive goals

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false

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18
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Memphis mayor Ed Crump controlled west Tennessee politics and refused to enforce prohobition

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true

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19
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in 1907, the church of god moved to Cleveland tn

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true

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20
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women generally worked as teachers, in stores or factories, or as “Typewriters”

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true

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21
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governor Austin Peay is best known for reforming the states public— system and building new—–.

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education, roads

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22
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after state prohibition, Tennessee women worked to secure a woman’s right to—.

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vote

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23
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in 1916, Clarence Saunders opened piggly wiggly, the first modern supermarket in memphis

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true

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24
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the Ku Klux Klan saw a popular resurgence in the teens and 1920s

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true

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25
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the butler act provided the basis for this famous Dayton, Tennessee trial in 1925.

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scopes monkey trial

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26
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Hillbilly music was another name for country music

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true

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27
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The flight of southern blacks to the north to seek hobs and flee Jim Crow is called the great——.

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great migration

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28
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Like Lea was the governor for most of the 20s

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false

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29
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by the end of the 20s, Tennessee had less than 4000 miles of paved highway

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false

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30
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in 1923, governor Austin Peay reorganized state government to make it more efficient and to give the governor more power

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true

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31
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money from a — tax funded the roads project

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gasoline

32
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one result of the general education bill standardized teacher pay at the state level

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true

33
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any county that levied a fifty cent tax for schools would receive enough funds for a non month school year

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false. eight month

34
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statewide teachers pay was funded through tobacco tax

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true

35
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the 75 million dollars spent building roads did not add any debt to the state treasury

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true

36
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the Tennessee town was the site of a race riot in 1919

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knoxville

37
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better educational opportunities in rural Tennessee allowed many from the country to move to the cities for work

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true

38
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after WW1, agricultural prices remained high

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false

39
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banks and insurance companies increased employment opportunities for women

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true

40
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in 1923, her recording of “Down hearted blues” sold over two million records

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bessie smith

41
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national life and accident insurance company started the radio station WLCA in 1923

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false

42
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The birth of a southern nation is a DW Griffin film from 1915

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true. based off of a book

43
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Herbert hoover was blamed for not doing enough to stop the great depression

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true

44
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elected president in 1932

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Franklin Rosevelt

45
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The new presidents program for ending the depression was called the fair deal

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false. new deal

46
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the caldwell banking firm was the first big Tennessee casualty of the depression

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true

47
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The TVA was designed to bring electricity to rural areas of Tn, Georgia, and Alabama

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true

48
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this entire city was built during the 1940s as a part of the Manhattan project

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oak ridge

49
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Tennessees climate and terrain made it perfect for military war games, the biggest which were held in middle Tennessee in 1943

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true

50
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Nashvilles aircraft plant was the Boeing aircraft plant

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false

51
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because of the draft, thousands of — found work in tn factories

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women

52
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smyrna had an airbase during WW2

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true

53
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During the Great Depression, rural small farmers suffered less than urban residents

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true

54
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the goal of the “alphabet programs” was to

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provide employment

55
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knoxville had bread lines

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true

56
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Tennessee saw a reverse migration from the cities to farm

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true

57
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African Americans saw gains in employment during the depression

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false

58
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one of the first school desegregation cases took place in Clinton high school in Anderson county

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true

59
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the first black undergraduates entered UT in January 1961

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true

60
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this Supreme Court case opened the door for desegregation in 1954

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brown V board of education

61
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the sewage school in montage educated civil rights activists from Rosa Parks to John Lewis

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false

62
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Many of those involved with the Nashville sit ins were influenced by Glands Ideology of non violent resistanec

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true

63
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Ben West was mayor of Nashville during the sit ins

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true

64
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John lewis authored a set of instructions to be carried by Nashville sit in participants

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true

65
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MLK jr was assassinated in —- on April 4, 1968

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Memphis

66
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MLK jr was in that city to show support for the striking garbage workers

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true

67
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The victims of the Fayette county mass evictions in 1960 brought their plight to national attention by living in a tent

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true

68
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disgruntled southern democrats formed the Dixiecrat party because harry Truman supported civil rights

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true

69
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why is the 1960s census significant

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for the first time, more than half the population lives in the urban area of the state

70
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in 1970, state government revenues totaled 800 million dollars

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false

71
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sam phillips founded

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sun records

72
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compared to other southern states, tn was more moderate in response to desegregation

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true

73
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white southerners established racist citizen councils to fight segregation

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74
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Nashville had one of the strongest citizens councils in the state

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false

75
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the highlander school in monteagle was a training ground for civil rights activists

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true

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