Alabama Studies Weekly Week 20

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Which of the following was not one of the Populist Party’s ideas? lower railroad rates on farm products, repeal the 17th Amendment, put more money into circulation, allow all voters to vote on U.S. senators

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repeal the 17th Amendment

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What two new kinds of schools were founded in Alabama in 1872?

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normal school and land grant college

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What was Booker T. Washington’s new educational idea?

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learning by doing

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How many years passed between when Pattie Ruffner Jacobs started the Birmingham Equal Suffrage Association and when women received the right to vote?

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9

Front

What is a dogtrot house?

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a house where early settlers lived

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How did some Southern governments find a way to discriminate against African Americans after the Civil War?

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They rewrote their constitution.

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Approximately how many African American soldiers served between 1917–1919 in World War II?

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350,000

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Which person started first grade as a 33-year-old, but ended up becoming a teacher in Africa?

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Maria Fearing