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Chapter 19
The South and the West Transformed
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07/12/2013
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J.M Chivington...
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led a massacre of 450 Indians at Sand Creek.
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W.E.B. Du Bois...
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refused to "surrender the leadership of this race to cowards."
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James Buchanan Duke...
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founded the American Tobacco Company.
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Joseph Glidden...
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was a barbed-wire promoter.
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Henry Grady...
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was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
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Frederick Jackson Turner...
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wrote "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."
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James Oliver...
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made an improved plow for Plains farmers.
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Benjamin Tillman...
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said blacks "must remain subordinate or be exterminated."
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Homer Plessy...
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was a Louisiana octoroon.
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Booker T. Washington...
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was educated at the Hampton Institute.
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True/False: The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900.
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True
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True/False: By 1900, lumbering in the South had surpassed textiles in value.
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True
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True/False: In the crop-lien system, farmers could grow little besides cotton or some other staple crop.
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True
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True/False: Due to high cotton prices, many sharecroppers were able to save money and buy farms.
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False
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True/False: The term Bourbon celebrated the French origin of many New South leaders.
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False
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True/False: Methods used to reduce the black vote stripped many poor whites of the vote as well.
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True
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True/False: Louisiana's efforts to stop black voting reduced the number of black voters by almost 25 percent.
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False
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True/False: In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court upheld the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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False
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True/False: W.E.B. Du Bois emerged as the leading black critic of Booker T. Washington's accommodation philosophy.
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True
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True/False: The frontier Indian wars began in the early 1880s with skirmishes against the Cherokees.
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False
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True/False: Hydraulic mining was the technique that proved least damaging to the environment.
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False
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True/False: The Indian wars effectively ended with the capture of Geronimo.
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True
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True/False: Climatic change on the plains played a significant role in the buffalo's disappearance.
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True
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True/False: The great boom in the range-cattle trade did not last long because cattle drives were economically unsound.
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True
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True/False: Most western settlers purchased their land directly from the federal government through the Homestead Act (or its later revisions).
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False
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A major prophet of the New South was:
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Henry W. Grady
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Proponents of the New South believed that the South should:
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Industrialize
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In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases:
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In the production of lumber, tobacco products, shipbuilding, and textiles except automobiles.
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The American Tobacco Company:
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Was broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911.
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Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to take care of the farmland they were on?
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It was not their own land.
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Perhaps the ultimate paradox of the Bourbons' rule was:
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That their paragons of white supremacy tolerated a lingering black voice in politics.
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Jim Crow laws were:
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Calculated attempts to segregate African Americans.
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The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included all the following: A residency requirement, provision disqualifying those who had not paid their poll taxes, literacy requirement, and an "understanding" clause EXCEPT
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Provision disqualifying anyone who owned less than $300 in personal property.
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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson:
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The Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana segregation law.
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Ida B. Wells became famous for leading a campaign against:
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Lynching
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Booker T. Washington said:
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"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."
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The case of Plessy v. Ferguson involved:
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A challenge to segregation laws that applied to passenger trains.
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Booker T. Washington:
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Founded the Tuskegee Institute.
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Between 1906 and 1915, what did southern states adopt to gain complete control of elections and to further disenfranchise blacks?
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Democratic primaries
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The lynching of blacks in the South:
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Increased at about the same time that Jim Crow laws spread through the South.
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Benjamin Singleton was:
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An early promoter of black migration to the West.
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"Exodusters" were:
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Black southerners who moved west.
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Buffalo soldiers were:
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Black soldiers who served in the West.
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The Comstock Lode was in:
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Nevada.
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Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889-1890. These states were NOT admitted before 1889 because:
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Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican.
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In the landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company the judge ruled:
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On the legality of dumping mining debris in water sources.
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Following the 1867 Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes:
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Persuaded the Indians to live on out of the way reservations.
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In the Battle of the Little Bighorn some 2,500 Indians annihilated:
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A detachment of 200 soldiers.
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The demise of the buffalo had much to do:
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With climate changes, competition, and disease.
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The Dawes Severalty Act sought:
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To "Americanize" Indians by dealing with them as individuals.
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Joseph Glidden perfected the invention:
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Of barbed wire.
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Cattle drives were:
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Largely over by 1886.
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Cattlemen rationalized violence against sheepherders because:
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They saw sheepherder ethnicity or religious beliefs as inferior.
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The Newlands Reclamation Act of 1901:
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Provided funds for irrigation works.
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"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" was:
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A paper delivered to a meeting of historians in 1849.
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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:
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The frontier shaped America's national character.
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