Dual Credit US History

mid term exam

Why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins?

He was a white sheriff and tax collector who supported freedpeople’s civil rights

What was the most common labor pattern in post-bellum cotton agriculture?

Sharecropping

Why did women’s rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment?

It introduced the word “male” into the Constitution for the first time

How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance?

Divided the U.S. South into five military zones to ensure the creation of fair state

The Compromise of 1877 did what?

 

Promised the removal of federal troops from the South

North Carolina chain gangs and work camps were politically protected because they

profited county elected officials

________ was appointed the first female Commissioner of public welfare because she was "pretty and wouldn't give the board any trouble."

Olive Clark

Denson's strongest weapon was:

publicity

Claude Denson leveraged ___________ to pressure county officials to create gender-segregated facilities for the incarcerated, insane, orphaned, and poor.

Political power

Daisy Denson came to hold public office as a result of _______

 

a deathbed request by her father.

Because of prohibition, _________ became a fixture in urban areas.

soda fountains

After he left congress Volstead serve as a legal consultant to the

 

National Prohibition Enforcement Bureau.

How did World War I contribute to the rise of feminism

 moved women into men’s sphere as they assumed jobs men held before they became soldiers.

The article that caused Volstead to lose his congressional seat was first published in the _______

 

Baltimore Sun

________ was the 36th state to approve the 18th amendment, giving the required ¾ majority of states approving it to make it part of the constitution.

nebraska

A series of meetings known as the __________ established the framework for the United Nations.

 

Dumbarton Oaks Convention

The greatest Job mobility among African American women in the south was

 

Shift from agriculture and domestic work to service trades

In 1937 the Alabama Poll Tax was

 

$1.50

The first woman elected to the US Senate was _________ __________.

 

Hattie Caraway

Which of the following items contributed to women's sense of self during World War II (Mark all that are correct)

 

Joining a Union

 

enlisting in the Military (Army, Navy, or Army Air corps)

 

Opening and maintaining a checking account

 

Doing their own automobile maintenance