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Intellectual/Social/Cultural Movements: 1870s - 1914 - Quiz 2

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Which of the following was among the objectives of Booker T. Washington?

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to keep up a constant agitation of questions of racial equality.

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to encourage Blacks to be more militant in demanding their rights.

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to encourage Blacks to work hard, acquire property, and prove they were worthy of their rights.

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to urge blacks not to accept separate but equal facilities.

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to form an organization to advance the rights of Blacks.

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The Chautauqua movement was?

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an educational movement utilizing lectures and sermons.

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a political movement advocating better wages and hours for workers.

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an artistic movement which emphasized abstract forms.

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a religious movement promoting Protestant missions.

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a philosophical movement that defined truth in terms of results.

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Horatio Alger?

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used in influence in Washington to get many of the federal government's large steel orders for Andrew Carnegie.

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coined the term "survival of the fittest."

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wrote rags-to-riches storied for boys.

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was J. Pierpont Morgan's closest friend and financial adviser.

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Which of the following groups, organized in the 1880s, reflected anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant sentiments?

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the American Protective Association.

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the Liberty Party.

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the Knights of Labor.

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the National Civic Federation.

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the Free Soilers.

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Which of the following accurately describes a trend in American society in the 1880s and 1890s?

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the middle class declined in numbers and influence.

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the middle class declined in numbers and influence.

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most married women worked to support their families.

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the workplace became more tightly organized and structured.

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the wealthy avoided signs of self-indulgence.

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In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court argued that?

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segregation on the basis of race was unconstitutional.

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the Fourteenth Amendment outlawed practices that emphasized racial distinctions.

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separate but equal laws would create separate but unequal facilities.

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states could pass laws separating people on the basis of race as long as equal facilities was provided.

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John Dewey was associated with?

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the establishment of the junior high school.

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campaigning for child labor laws.

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the "back-to-basics" movement.

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progressive education.

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the establishment of tax-supported public schools.

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In a country hungry for news, American newspapers at the end of the 19c?

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became sensationalist.

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printed hard-hitting editorials.

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repudiated the tactics of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.

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came to rely less on syndicated material.

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She was the Afro-American woman, born in slavery and later to become the respected editor of a newspaper, who fought hard against the campaign of lynching used in the south during the 1890s?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Ida B. Wells.

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Harriet Tubman.

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Dorothea Dix.

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Ida Tarbell.

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Which of the following became a major exponent of the architectural principle "form follows function"?

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Thomas Eakins.

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Frank Lloyd Wright.

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August Saint-Gaudens.

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Winslow Homer.

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Mary Cassatt.

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