Question 1

The effective plan to disenfranchise southern blacks in the 1890s took its name from which state in which it first appeared?

Accepted Answer

A)  South Carolina
B)  Georgia
C)  Mississippi
D)  Louisiana

Question 2

Which of the following statements about American colonization of Puerto Rico is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  American colonial officials enjoyed some success at improving the colony's standards of health and education.
B)  Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship and male Puerto Ricans gained the right to vote,though the most important government officials were appointed by the U.S.president.
C)  American colonization in Puerto Rico resulted in a broad-based prosperity which lifted the masses out of poverty.
D)  The acquisition of Puerto Rico raised concerns among many American congressmen who worried that the enfranchisement of black Puerto Ricans would lead black Americans to agitate for their own rights.

Question 3

Over which of the following territories did the United States take official possession as a result of the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cuba
B)  Puerto Rico
C)  Hawaii
D)  the Virgin Islands

Question 4

The United States purchased the Virgin Islands from

Accepted Answer

A)  Spain.
B)  France.
C)  Germany.
D)  Denmark.

Question 5

What did the U.S.Supreme Court decide in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?

Accepted Answer

A)  State-mandated segregation was unconstitutional.
B)  Only states,not the federal government,could pass laws requiring private businesses to provide equal access to black and white customers.
C)  Private businesses could not deny service to black citizens,though they could require black customers to make use of separate rooms or facilities from the ones used by white customers.
D)  State governments could enact laws which disenfranchised entire black communities as long as the laws were not explicitly based on race.

Question 6

Tracing its history back to the American Revolution,which unit was the only all-black company mustered as an integral part of a white regiment during the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Company D of the Sixth Virginia Infantry
B)  Company H of the Third North Carolina Infantry
C)  Company L of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry
D)  Company C of the Third Connecticut Infantry of Volunteers

Question 7

Which northern city experienced two riots within a few years,including one in 1904 in which a lynch mob killed a black prisoner before burning eight buildings in the black section of town?

Accepted Answer

A)  Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
B)  Springfield,Ohio
C)  Christiana,Pennsylvania
D)  Akron,Ohio

Question 8

The emergence of the Readjuster Party in the late 1870s revealed that

Accepted Answer

A)  white southerners would vote against their own economic interests to prevent blacks from gaining political power.
B)  attempts to disenfranchise black southerners had become almost completely successful within only a few years of the end of Reconstruction.
C)  white southerners would sometimes ally with black southerners in opposition to policies which seemed to benefit only the rich.
D)  although black southerners continued to enjoy some access to the ballot box after the end of Reconstruction,their votes were controlled by the white elite.

Question 9

A riot in 1898 over the question of disenfranchisement left eleven blacks dead and twenty-five wounded in which city?

Accepted Answer

A)  Wilmington,North Carolina
B)  Beaufort,South Carolina
C)  Mound Bayou,Mississippi
D)  Dalton,Georgia

Question 10

Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries provided crucial assistance to the Rough Riders on June 24,1898,at the Battle of

Accepted Answer

A)  Las Guasimas.
B)  San Juan Hill.
C)  El Caney.
D)  Guantanamo Bay.

Question 11

Which of the following statements about the August 1908 riot in Springfield,Illinois,is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Although it received more attention than other episodes,it was far from the only instance of antiblack mob violence in northern cities.
B)  The riot stemmed from a false accusation of rape leveled against a black man by a white woman who retracted her statement before the riot occurred.
C)  The riot resulted in the deaths of twice as many blacks as whites.
D)  Order was only restored after the mustering of 5000 militiamen.

Question 12

Which of the following statements about the case of Plessy v.Ferguson is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  The case resulted from the arrest of Plessy,a man who was seven-eighths white,who refused to leave his seat in the whites-only section of a Louisiana train.
B)  The case was instigated by black Louisianans who set up Plessy for arrest to test the state's new law segregating railroad cars.
C)  Both a lower court judge,John H.Ferguson,and the Supreme Court of Louisiana,upheld Plessy's arrest.
D)  Although the U.S.Supreme Court upheld the legality of "separate but equal" state facilities,it did so by a bare majority,with four justices writing heated dissents.

Question 13

Which of the following statements about American interest in the Hawaiian Islands is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  After its victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898,the United States forced Spain to sell it the Hawaiian Islands for a nominal cost.
B)  The United States looked to the islands as a site for naval bases and coaling stations.
C)  American investors had poured millions of dollars into sugar plantations well before the United States officially took possession of the islands.
D)  The Hawaiian Islands were only a few of several islands which the United States had begun to acquire in the late nineteenth century.

Question 14

Whose heavy-handed anti-insurgent policies earned him the nickname "the Butcher" in the American press?

Accepted Answer

A)  Antonio Maceo
B)  Quintin Bandera
C)  Valeriano Weyler
D)  Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 15

In what year did John Mercer Langston become the first black man to represent Virginia in the U.S.Congress?

Accepted Answer

A)  1868
B)  1878
C)  1888
D)  1978

Question 16

At a conference held in 1884-1885,European delegates carved up which region among themselves?

Accepted Answer

A)  Africa
B)  Asia
C)  the Middle East
D)  the South Seas islands

Question 17

Before the Spanish-American War,the U.S.Army's four black units had been used primarily

Accepted Answer

A)  in the occupation of Pacific islands.
B)  as personal servants to high-ranking white officers.
C)  to protect the civil rights of southern blacks from white supremacist terror.
D)  in the Indian wars of the West.

Question 18

In September 1906,which city experienced the most South's most sensational riot,one which resulted in the death of one white police officer and four prominent black citizens?

Accepted Answer

A)  Atlanta
B)  Charleston
C)  New Orleans
D)  Baltimore

Question 19

Which of the following statements about the U.S.war against Spain is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  It stemmed from an ongoing rebellion within Spain's colony of Cuba.
B)  It was largely inspired by Spanish imperial restrictions which had completely barred Americans from investing in Cuba's lucrative sugar industry.
C)  It was encouraged by sensational accounts of Spanish atrocities in the American press.
D)  It resulted in large part from the mysterious destruction of an American warship in Cuban waters.

Exam 12: The Color Line

A riot in 1898 over the question of disenfranchisement left eleven blacks dead and twenty-five wounded in which city?

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Which of the following statements about American interest in the Hawaiian Islands is LEAST accurate?

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Which northern city experienced two riots within a few years,including one in 1904 in which a lynch mob killed a black prisoner before burning eight buildings in the black section of town?

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The effective plan to disenfranchise southern blacks in the 1890s took its name from which state in which it first appeared?

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Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries provided crucial assistance to the Rough Riders on June 24,1898,at the Battle of

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Whose heavy-handed anti-insurgent policies earned him the nickname "the Butcher" in the American press?

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Which of the following statements about the U.S.war against Spain is LEAST accurate?

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In September 1906,which city experienced the most South's most sensational riot,one which resulted in the death of one white police officer and four prominent black citizens?

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Which of the following statements about the case of Plessy v.Ferguson is LEAST accurate?

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Before the Spanish-American War,the U.S.Army's four black units had been used primarily

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At a conference held in 1884-1885,European delegates carved up which region among themselves?

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The emergence of the Readjuster Party in the late 1870s revealed that

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Which of the following statements about American colonization of Puerto Rico is LEAST accurate?

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In what year did John Mercer Langston become the first black man to represent Virginia in the U.S.Congress?

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Over which of the following territories did the United States take official possession as a result of the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War?

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The United States purchased the Virgin Islands from

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Tracing its history back to the American Revolution,which unit was the only all-black company mustered as an integral part of a white regiment during the Spanish-American War?

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What did the U.S.Supreme Court decide in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?

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Which of the following statements about the August 1908 riot in Springfield,Illinois,is LEAST accurate?

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Exam 12: The Color Line

A riot in 1898 over the question of disenfranchisement left eleven blacks dead and twenty-five wounded in which city?

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Which of the following statements about American interest in the Hawaiian Islands is LEAST accurate?

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Which northern city experienced two riots within a few years,including one in 1904 in which a lynch mob killed a black prisoner before burning eight buildings in the black section of town?

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The effective plan to disenfranchise southern blacks in the 1890s took its name from which state in which it first appeared?

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Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries provided crucial assistance to the Rough Riders on June 24,1898,at the Battle of

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Whose heavy-handed anti-insurgent policies earned him the nickname "the Butcher" in the American press?

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Which of the following statements about the U.S.war against Spain is LEAST accurate?

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In September 1906,which city experienced the most South's most sensational riot,one which resulted in the death of one white police officer and four prominent black citizens?

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Which of the following statements about the case of Plessy v.Ferguson is LEAST accurate?

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Before the Spanish-American War,the U.S.Army's four black units had been used primarily

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At a conference held in 1884-1885,European delegates carved up which region among themselves?

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The emergence of the Readjuster Party in the late 1870s revealed that

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Which of the following statements about American colonization of Puerto Rico is LEAST accurate?

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In what year did John Mercer Langston become the first black man to represent Virginia in the U.S.Congress?

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Over which of the following territories did the United States take official possession as a result of the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War?

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The United States purchased the Virgin Islands from

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Tracing its history back to the American Revolution,which unit was the only all-black company mustered as an integral part of a white regiment during the Spanish-American War?

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What did the U.S.Supreme Court decide in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?

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Which of the following statements about the August 1908 riot in Springfield,Illinois,is LEAST accurate?

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