quiz

Question 1

What landmark Supreme Court case led to the slogan, “separate but equal?”

a. ) Plessy v. Ferguson
b. ) Brown v. Board of Education
c. ) Marbury v. Madison
d. ) Dred Scott v. Sanford

Answer 1

a.) Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 2

Advertisers played on the supposed values of women, by using all of the following but which?

a. ) Universal desire for beauty
b. ) Their disdain for lower classes
c. ) Sense of duty to the family

Answer 2

b.) Their disdain for lower classes

Question 3

The Transcontinental Railroad allowed which of the following to thrive?

a. ) Travel
b. ) All of the above
c. ) Spread of Ideas
d. ) None of the above
e. ) Business

Answer 3

b.) All of the above

Question 4

Which of the following was the more common type of occurrence during the Indian Wars?

a. ) Slaughter of 1,000 ponies at Palo Duro Canyon
b. ) Major encounter at the Battle of the Washita

Answer 4

a.) Slaughter of 1,000 ponies at Palo Canyon

Question 5

Which of the following was not a common job for women?

a. ) Prostitution
b. ) Surveying
c. ) Writing

Answer 5

b.) Surveying

Question 6

True or False: all Plains Indians lived nomadic lives.

a. ) True
b. ) False

Answer 6

b.) False

Question 7

The practice of farming land and giving a portion of your crop as rent, to the land owner, is also known as?

a. ) Leasing
b. ) Sharecropping
c. ) Vassalage

Answer 7

b.) Sharecropping

Question 8

Describe Vertical and Horizontal Integration in 2 sentences apiece. Also provide an example of both.

Answer 8

Horizontal Integration is when a company owns a similar company. This means the two companies are alike in many ways and can be used to work together. Vertical Integrations is when someone owns their supply chain. This means that companies who own their chain of supply is Vertical Integration because they are supplying the things they need to make their company strive. An example of Horizontal Integration would be if Verizon bought AT&T, which are both phone networks. An example of a Vertical Integration would be if a coffee shop planted their own coffee grain trees to produce their own coffee grains for the coffee.

Question 9

Between 1880 and 1900, approximately how many people died per year due to work place accidents?

a. ) 350
b. ) 3,500
c. ) 35,000
d. ) 350,000

Answer 9

c.) 35,000

Question 10

Which of the following was not a technological innovation during the Industrial Revolution?

a. ) Electricity
b. ) Automobiles
c. ) Cotton Gin
d. ) Typewriter

Answer 10

c.) Cotton Gin

Question 11

This was the idea that our expansion throughout the continental U.S. was both justified and inevitable.

a. ) Counter Culture
b. ) Might is Right
c. ) Divine Providence
d. ) Manifest Destiny

Answer 11

d.) Manifest Destiny

Question 12

True or False: The law giving Native Americans more rights, was also known as the “Indian Bill of Rights.”

a. ) True
b. ) False

Answer 12

a.) True

Question 13

The relationship describing the demand for workers, during the Industrial Revolution, is found in which pair of words?

a. ) Workers and Wages
b. ) Women and Workers
c. ) Benefits and Wages
d. ) Strikes and Strike Busters

Answer 13

a.) Workers and Wages

Question 14

Which man was the inspiration of the U.S. Army during Indian Removal?

a. ) Grant
b. ) Sheridan
c. ) Lincoln
d. ) Sherman

Answer 14

d.) Sherman

Question 15

True or False: The Homestead Act allowed poor miners 160 acres of land, for the expansion West.

a. ) True
b. ) False

Answer 15

b.) False

Question 16

True or False: Southern Redeemers were the political arm of the racist South.

a. ) True
b. ) False

Answer 16

a.) True

Question 17

Who was the women that helped found the NAACP, as a reaction to the Jim Crow South?

a. ) Alice Paul
b. ) Ida Tarbell
c. ) Ida B. Wells
d. ) Rosa Parks

Answer 17

c.) Ida B. Wells

Question 18

True or False: The South Mill Economy was an idea to spur economic growth, by placing factories in the South.

a. ) True
b. ) False

Answer 18

a.) True

Question 19

What was the compromise of 1877? How were the rights of blacks subverted in the South, after the compromise of 1877?

Answer 19

The compromise of 1877 was between the North and the South. Votes were tampered with to make hayes president. The South agreed to vote Hayes for President if the north will get out of the South and pay them money to rebuild. Without the northern soldiers there, a number of black codes started to put an end to the African American population. The codes could keep them from voting, working, and from certain leisures.

Question 20

Name and describe three of the tenets of the Lost Cause myth. (3 to 4 sentences).

Answer 20

1. ) all of the women loved the war
2. ) Slaves were loved by families
3. ) the confederate soliders fought in the war heroicly

Question 21

Besides whites and Native Americans, describe two of the three diverse people of the Old West. 2 sentences apiece.

Answer 21

Another one of the diverse groups were Mexicans. An example of this could be the cowboys that were apart of the diverse group of Mexicans. Another diverse group was the Chinese. The Chinese hopped for a better life, but they were treated no better than African Americans were. The Chinese done a lot and helped a lot with the building of railroads.