PMA Q1

This political cartoon represents the idea of what?

• Workmen's Comp

• Capitalism

• Low wages

• Collective bargaining

Which statement best completes the graphic organizer?

• Farmers organized the Grange movement and the Populist Party.

• The government authorized the unlimited coinage of silver to help farmers.

• Populists demanded that the government help farmers by raising tariffs.

• The government demanded that farmers slaughter livestock to increase prices.

What was the purpose of the Grange movement

• to fight the corruption of political machines in the cities

• to break rural isolation of farmers and represent their interests

• to halt the influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

• to agitate for government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones.

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage/sharecropping that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?

• African Americans were unable to afford to work agricultural jobs.

• African Americans left the South in large numbers to escape their debts.

• African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.

• African Americans had to work for low wages to pay off their emancipation costs.

In what system did a landowner lend materials to a person who would plant crops and then pay back the landowner with a portion of the crops harvested?

• Carpetbagging

• Sharecropping

• Barter Farming

• Crop Rotation

What was an important negative effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage on African Americans during Reconstruction?

• Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South.

• Freedmen played an important role in local and state governments.

• Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters.

• Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.

Which labor system was basically "unofficial slavery" and kept African Americans in debt?

• Sharecropping/debt peonage

• Legislative system

• role of buffalo soldier

• farming

The passage below is an excerpt from the 14th Amendment

“ No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

This 14th amendment was proposed by Congress in response to which of the following?

• A. The rise of violence against emancipated slaves

• B. The passage of Black Codes throughout the South

• C. The emergence of white resistance to the civil rights movement

• D. The attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans

Following the Civil War, why did many southern states enact Black Codes?

• to guarantee equal civil rights for African Americans

• to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons

• to support the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau

• to provide free farmland for African Americans

What did the Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes have in common?

• both increased rights for African Americans

• both limited rights/discriminated against African Americans

• both made it easier for African Americans to vote

• both increased rights for Native Americans