Chapter 19: The South and the West Transformed
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The major prophet of the New South was:
a. J. L. M. Curry.
b. Henry W. Grady.
c. John Ruffin Green.
d. Edmund Ruffin.
3. Sharecroppers and tenant farmers:
a. increased in number after the Civil War.
b. were often so poor they had trouble making mortgage or tax payments on their land.
c. were more common in the Upper South than in the Deep South.
d. generally improved their land more than the owners would have done on their own.
5. The “Pittsburgh of the South,” so named because of its steel production, was:
a. Birmingham, Alabama.
b. Houston, Texas.
c. Nashville, Tennessee.
d. Rome, Georgia.
6. One irony of segregation is that it opened up:
a. old values concerning race.
b. new acceptance by whites of blacks in their cities.
c. old sections of towns previously banned to blacks.
d. new economic opportunities for blacks.
7. In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of:
a. textiles.
b. lumber.
c. tobacco products.
d. All of the above are true.
8. Under Bourbon rule in the South, state spending for public education:
a. increased slightly.
b. stayed about the same.
c. dramatically declined.
d. was roughly the same for black and white schools.
10. The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of:
a. capital.
b. labor.
c. cotton.
d. domestic help.
13. The disenfranchisement of blacks in the South:
a. was designed in part to allow southern whites to divide politically without giving
blacks the balance of power.
b. was often accomplished through the use of the “grandfather clause,” which said you
could vote only if your grandfather could vote.
c. was unconstitutional, because the Fourteenth Amendment had explicitly given all
citizens the right to vote.
d. is correctly represented by all the above statements.
14. The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included all the following except a:
a. residency requirement.
b. provision disqualifying anyone who owned less than $300 in personal property.
c. provision disqualifying those who had not paid their poll taxes.
d. literacy requirement.
15. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court:
a. ruled that a federal Civil Rights Act could not extend to individual action.
b. decided that segregation on railroad cars was illegal under the Fourteenth
Amendment.
c. upheld a Louisiana segregation law.
d. ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws”
applied to private businesses.
17. Ida B. Wells became famous for:
a. starting a black college in Tuskegee, Alabama.
b. becoming the South’s leading black scientist and inventor.
c. leading a campaign against lynching.
d. All of the above are true.
18. The lynching of blacks in the South:
a. prompted the passage of a federal anti-lynching law in 1892.
b. decreased just before the turn of the century, possibly because whites could control
blacks through Jim Crow laws.
c. increased at about the same time that Jim Crow laws spread through the South.
d. was not much worse at the turn of the century than similar lynchings in the North.
19. Booker T. Washington:
a. was born of a slave mother and a white father.
b. had a Ph.D. in history from Harvard and wrote several distinguished historical
works.
c. criticized W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech.
d. is correctly represented by all the above statements.
21. Who said, “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, yet one
as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress”?
a. George Washington Cable
b. W. E. B. Du Bois
c. John W. Gates
d. Booker T. Washington
22. The Comstock Lode was:
a. just outside of Deadwood, South Dakota.
b. in Nevada.
c. on land given to the Cherokee Indians in the 1830s.
d. the site of the first uranium mine in the United States.
24. Buffalo soldiers were:
a. black soldiers who served in the West.
b. Indian scouts who helped the army against the Plains tribes.
c. white hunters who killed millions of buffalo.
d. immigrants who joined the army in exchange for citizenship.
25. The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was
the:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Apaches.
Comanches.
Crows.
Sioux.
26. Following the 1867 Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes, Congress decided that the best
way to end Indian wars was:
a. to send in the army, under men such as George Custer, to break the morale of the
Indians.
b. systematically to kill most of the buffalo.
c. to “Americanize” the Indians by offering them an education at the white man’s
school.
d. to force the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations.
27. In the Battle of the Little Bighorn:
a. General George Custer’s troops were massacred by the Cherokee and Seminole
Indians.
b. some 2,500 Indians annihilated a detachment of more than 200 soldiers.
c. Chief Sitting Bull was captured and murdered.
d. Sioux and Cheyenne Indians won a large chunk of the Montana Territory, which
they kept for fourteen years.
29. The Dawes Severalty Act:
a. was designed to “Americanize” the Indians.
b. gave individual Indians up to 160 acres of land which, for the Indians’ protection,
the government held in trust for twenty-five years.
c. caused the Indians to lose over half of their land by 1934.
d. is correctly represented by all the above statements.
30. “Exodusters” were:
a. Chinese immigrants in California.
b. Scandinavian immigrants in the West.
c. black southerners who moved west.
d. prostitutes who worked in the cowtowns.
32. The cattle drives:
a. delivered the herds to the slaughterhouses in Chicago.
b. were largely over by 1886.
c. typically started from ranches in Kansas and Oklahoma.
d. caused the extinction of Texas longhorns.
33. Joseph Glidden:
a. was a railroad man who reaped great profits from the early cattle drives.
b. invented barbed wire.
c. made his fame as a buffalo hunter, slaughtering thousands of the animals.
d. led the sheep ranchers against the cattlemen for control of western grazing lands.
34. The Newlands Reclamation Act:
a. sold to settlers the lands created by clearing the timber from the western public
lands.
b. allowed the government to reclaim some of the land once given to railroads.
c. authorized the government to begin a tremendous tree-planting project to reclaim
part of the arid West.
d. provided funds for irrigation works.
35. According to the superintendent of the census, the frontier line no longer existed after:
a. 1875.
b. 1880.
c. 1890.
d. 1900.