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28 Cards in this Set
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In 1882 and again in 1902, the United States Congress passed laws excluding immigrants from China.
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True
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Populists in western states endorsed woman suffrage.
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True
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Southern Populists forged notable alliances between black and white farmers.
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True
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In the 1880s and 1890s, blacks no longer served in the United States Congress.
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False
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In the late nineteenth century, black women were largely excluded from jobs as secretaries, typists, and department store clerks.
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True
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Beginning about 1880, "new immigrants" were welcomed with open arms by the American people.
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False
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Most Americans who looked to expand America's influence overseas were interested, not in territorial possessions, but in expanded trade.
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True
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An oversupply of cotton on the world market, which led to a sharp decline in prices, contributed to a farmers' revolt and gave rise to the Populist Movement.
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True
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Government intervention was vital to the defeats of the 1892 Homestead strike and the 1894 Pullman strike.
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True
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Turn-of-the-century segregation laws were passed in clear defiance of Supreme Court rulings.
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False
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In 1915, the United States Supreme Court invalidated the "grandfather clause" for violating the Fifteenth Amendment.
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True
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Like the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was infused with the social elitism of the times.
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True
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Only after Spain threatened to invade America did the United States elect to go to war.
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False
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The 1890s saw a widespread imposition not only of disfranchisement, but also of segregation in the South.
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True
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The election of 1896 is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign, in part, because of the amount of money spent—William McKinley raised some $10 million, while William Jennings Bryant raised only around $300,000.
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True
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By 1900, southern per capita income was only sixty percent of that of the national average.
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True
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In 1894 a coalition of white Populists and black Republicans won control of North Carolina, bringing the state into a sort of "second Reconstruction."
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True
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One consequence of the bitter attacks on African Americans' political rights across the South was that, by 1940, 97 percent of adult black Southerners were not registered to vote.
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True
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Tom Watson, who had earlier been a leading figure in forging an interracial Populist coalition had, by the early twentieth century, emerged as a power in Georgia, whipping up prejudice against African Americans, Catholics, and Jews.
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True
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In the late nineteenth century urban workers rallied in support of Populist farmers.
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False
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In 1894, in one of the most decisive shifts in congressional power in American history, the nation's urban working class shifted en masse to the Republican Party, and Republicans gained 117 seats in the House of Representatives.
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True
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As the subordination of blacks grew more rigid, American attitudes toward immigrants grew more tolerant.
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False
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In a show of democratic solidarity on the part of the American people, the Farmers' Alliance, especially in the southern states, welcomed black farmers into the Alliance.
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False
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Segregation was more than a form of racial separation. It was one part of an all-encompassing system of white domination.
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True
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Ironically, the Farmers Alliance found greater support among industrial workers than among small farmers.
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False
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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.
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True
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Southern Democrats persistently raised to the threat of "Negro domination" to justify denying blacks the right to vote.
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True
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With the exception of some dockworkers' and mine laborers' unions, blacks were excluded from membership in the few unions that existed in the South in the late nineteenth century.
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True
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