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Quiz number one multiple-choice
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2012

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Credit in the South
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Was available through local merchants who charged high interest rates.
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The agricultural ladder was a myth because
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Few sharecroppers and tenant farmers were able to purchase their own land.
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Advocates of the new South call for
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Revitalizing the southern economy through industrialization.
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Individualization failed to invigorate the southern economy because
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Workers wages were too low to promote economic growth.
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The citizens of the new South did not experience increased human services or improved infrastructure because
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The average Southerner preferred remain ignorant and impoverished.
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Low workers waged in the South
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Stifled the expansion of the southern economy.
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White Southerners rejected the Republican party because
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She had identified Republicans with Lincoln and the emancipation of the slaves.
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In the new South African-Americans
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Were dominated by whites in part to the use of racial segregation.
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A potential obstacle to the implementation of state segregation law was
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The 14th amendment
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the 1896 ruling in Plessy versus Ferguson
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Declared racial segregation to be constitutional
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In an effort to invade the goal of the 15th amendment white Southerners
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Used tools such as the literacy tests and poll tax to limit black voter participation.
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Democrats retained power in the south by
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Using the racial anxieties of poor whites to convince them to vote Democratic.
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Display violence
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Serves to unite and unify the white southern population
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Booker T Washington
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urged African-Americans to accept segregation while they built economic power
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The role played by the federal government in the industrial expansion of the North involved
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Providing loans and grants to inventors who propose technological innovation.
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Personal savings rate in the North
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Concentrated a source of capital that help stimulate northern economic growth.
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The economic growth of the North in the late 19th century was in part caused by
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The low savings rates of Northern workers who spent all their money on factory goods made in the North.
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Stimulants to the growth in the northern economy included
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The development of new technologies which improve worker productivity.
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" Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude a set as a punishment for crime where of the parties shall be duly convinced, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
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Thirteenth amendment
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After the Civil War, land redistribution in the South
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Never happen, because Americans resisted the notation of redistributing property.
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Extractive industries are a problematic because
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They contribute to the degration of the environment.
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Value added industries in the South
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Rely upon northern capital, so their profits did not stay in the South.
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southren elites were able to control worker wages in part by
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Using convent labor to expand the label pool.
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Northern began industrializing in the early 19th century
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Because agriculture was not a secure route to wealth in the region
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The North promoted industrialization in the early 1800s because
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Northerners were intelligently superior to Americans in other regions.
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In response to cotton prices in the late 19th century, most southern farmers
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Increased cotton production in an effort to maintain profits.
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