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1. Which of the following organizations promoted better child-rearing techniques?
A. National Congress of Mothers
B. NAACP
C. Urban League
D. National Child Labor Committee
2. In the 1890s, resistance to white rule and segregation in southern states
A. met with violence and terror in the service of white supremacy.
B. led to streetcar boycotts and antilynching crusades by southern blacks.
C. resulted in a Back-to-Africa movement on the part of some southern blacks.
D. All of the above
3. The Populists differed dramatically from the major parties in their support for
A. activist government.
B. racial segregation.
C. free silver.
D. the gold standard.
4. The Populists lost their independence by
A. allying with blacks in the South.
B. supporting the subtreasury system.
C. backing William J. Bryan.
D. making free silver their defining issue.
5. The leader of the Industrial Workers of the World was
A. Jacob Coxey.
B. George Pullman.
C. William McKinley.
D. Bill Haywood.
6. In the 1896 election, William J. Bryan lost primarily because
A. of a huge fund-raising campaign by corporate leaders.
B. he had many immigrants on his side.
C. his campaign manager Mark Hanna abandoned him.
D. he successfully convinced voters that he was not a revolutionary.
7. The gold and silver money issue dominated the 1890s election because
A. of the economic depression.
B. the major parties supported the gold standard.
C. the Republicans needed an issue to defeat the Populists.
D. the Populists supported free silver.
8. The Labor Department created which of the following bureaus in 1912?
A. Animal's
B. Children's
C. Prison
D. Reservation
9. Which of the following women founded the New York Consumers' League?
A. Josephine Shaw Lowell
B. Jane Addams
C. Emma Willard
D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10. One of the National Consumer League's greatest triumphs was the Supreme Court's decision in 1908 in
A. Plessy v. Ferguson.
B. Williams v. Mississippi.
C. Muller v. Oregon.
D. Roe v. Wade.
11. Why did DuBois and Trotter meet across the border in Canada with other African Americans to discuss racial equality in the United States?
A. They lacked money to meet in the United States.
B. They were Canadian citizens.
C. They wanted to honor their Canadian white friends.
D. They could not gain entrance into a U.S. hotel.
12. Which of the following organizations was created in 1909 to assist African Americans?
A. Urban League
B. National Consumer's League
C. NAACP
D. Populists
13. The Mugwumps were primarily concerned with
A. reforming corrupt politics.
B. social reform.
C. ethnocultural politics.
D. controlling Republican Party patronage.
14. Ida Wells-Barnett was a black journalist best known for her crusade against
A. disfranchisement.
B. lynching.
C. school segregation.
D. alcohol.
15. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
A. segregation was not discriminatory if blacks received accommodations equal to those of whites.
B. poll taxes and literacy tests were constitutional under certain conditions.
C. blacks could testify in court cases against whites in all states.
D. the Fourteenth Amendment lacked authority in southern states.