Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Black Military veterans formed the core of the first generation of African American political leaders in the postwar South
2. The south emerged from the civil war with a strong, diversified economy
3. The Reconstruction era provided true social equality for blacks at least for the period from 1865 to 1877
4. One of the most popular religious denominations among blacks in the postwar South was Baptist
5. The Fifteenth Amendment freed slaves
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False
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On the race question, progressivism
a. gave birth to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. b. included racists among its prominent adherents. c. was not of a single mind. d. sometimes supported Jim Crow. e. all of these choices.
Which of the following was NOT an advantage enjoyed by the North as the Civil War began?
A) a larger population B) superior industrial capacity C) more railroad mileage D) a large, well-trained army
Spanish forces were able to conquer the Philippines because of the
A) assistance of China and India. B) lack of a centralized, powerful state to organize resistance. C) unhappiness of many of the Philippine people with Muslim rule. D) desire of the island chiefdoms to enter into a treaty with the Spanish. E) eagerness of many islanders to convert to Christianity.
What is meant by the idea of being sold “down the river” in this chapter?
a) being sold by their current slaveholder to large internal slave markets b) being sold to slave traders on the coast of Africa c) being turned in to a slaveholder by an informant d) being sold to a more favorable situation away from current circumstances