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test 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African-Americans migrated to | kansas |
| During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole | sank deeper into poverty |
| During the 1890s, millions of farmers rejected the Populist movement in an attempt to reverse their declining economic prospects and to rescue the government from what they saw as control by powerful corporate interests. | false |
| In 1882 and again in 1902, the United States Congress passed laws excluding immigrants from China. | true |
| In the 1880s and 1890s, blacks no longer served in the United States Congress. | false |
| Like the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was infused with the social elitism of the times. | true |
| Most Americans who looked to expand America's influence overseas were interested, not in territorial possessions, but in expanded trade. | true |
| Southern Democrats persistently raised the threat of "Negro domination" (a process often referred to as demagoguery) to justify denying blacks the right to vote. | true |
| The "white man's burden" was a way of saying that non-white people ruled over white people in many areas around the world and formed part of the progress of civilization that must be stopped. | false |
| The 1890s saw a widespread imposition not only of disfranchisement, but also of segregation in the South. | true |
| The Platt Amendment authorized the United States to intervene militarily whenever it saw fit. | true |
| The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization | calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote. |
| The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late-nineteenth-century America were those arriving from | china |
| Until the Great Migration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North during World War I, the vast majority of African-Americans lived in the South | true |
| What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished? | the Philippine War |
| Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South? | a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone |
| Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion? | a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures |
| While the total number of lynchings is difficult to determine during this time period, from 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the confirmed number of people lynched reached nearly | 4,000 |
| Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders? | Theodore Roosevelt |
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