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| As prohibition became such an all-absorbing political contest |
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both sides ran candidates in the elections for local as well as statewide elections.
B) both sides claimed the moral high ground and insisted its opponents were immoral and corrupt.
D) all of the above. |
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| The Zimmerman Telegram proposed |
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| C) that if Mexico made war on the United States, Germany would return the territory lost in the Mexican-American War. |
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| In 1920 the Ku Klux Klan became powerful in Texas politics. Its program consisted of all the following EXCEPT: |
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A) It was anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish as well as anti-black.
B) It supported the candidacy of Miriam Ferguson for governor.
C) It supported Prohibition and virtuous womanhood.
D) It proposed restrictions on immigration. (NOT D) |
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| The “boom” which followed the First World War included all the following EXCEPT |
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A) land values rose sharply and people invested in public utilities.
B) new colleges were built and public schools improved.
C) thousands of new oil wells were dug.
D) farm prices doubled bringing prosperity to farmers.
(NOT A) |
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| During the impeachment hearings for Governor James Ferguson in 1917, it was revealed that |
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A) the liquor interests in the state had financed his political career.
B) the Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association had purchased a ranch and home for the governor.
C) he had campaigned for Prohibition in the state while taking money from the Brewers Association.
D) all of the above.
(NOT C) |
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| Which of the following is NOT one of the three great crusades that marked the period between 1910 and 1930? |
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Woman Suffrage
crusades- KKK, Prohibition, First World War |
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| By time-honored custom a tenant farmer paid his landlord a rental of |
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| one fourth of his cotton and one third of most other crops grown on the land. |
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| In spite of its defeat in 1887, a new era of prohibition legislation began in 1910. Which of these organizations favored the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages? |
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A) Texas Local Option Association
B) Knights of Labor
C) Roman Catholic Church
D) The Saloon League
(NOT D) |
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| After his impeachment and conviction, James Ferguson returned to political power by |
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| getting his wife elected governor |
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A) appears to have taken money from those who received road construction contracts.
B) was instrumental in the declining power of the KKK in Texas.
C) was charged with profiting from contracts for textbooks.
D) all of the above.
(NOT B) |
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