Final Exam 2024

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Overcrowded housing, poor sanitation, harsh living conditions, lack of water and sewage facilities are all problems associated with:

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people living in the cities at the turn of the 20th century

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The Bessemer Process was essential to industrialization as a way to:

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produce high grade steel quickly and inexpensively

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What was the government’s policy of not regulating business known as?

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laissez-faire economics

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(VUS.8) Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to

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restrict the voting rights of African Americans

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Which Supreme Court case upheld the segregation laws?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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In the late 19th and early 20th Century, African Americans moved to Northern cities in search of jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination. This is referred to as:

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The Great Migration

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Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, believed that black people should: learn skilled and semi-skilled positions, become a powerful economic group, then ask for social change.

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learn skilled and semi-skilled positions, become a powerful economic group, then ask for social change.

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(VUS.8) W.E.B. Du Bois, a co-founder of the NAACP, believed that Black people should: demand higher education to enter the world of trained professionals and demand equality, providing the top 10% would open the door for the rest.

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demand higher education to enter the world of trained professionals and demand equality, providing the top 10% would open the door for the rest.

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Which of the following BEST describes imperialism?

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The process of a powerful nation exerting military, economic or political influence over a less powerful area

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Why did construction of the Panama Canal become more important to the United States after the Spanish-American War?

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The navy needed a faster way to move ships between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.