Quiz Review: Virginia and the New South

Allen & Ginter used new marketing techniques and cheap child labor to become the largest _____________ manufacturer in Richmond.

cigarette

The Readjusters claimed to represent Virginia's _______, no matter the race.

poor

The purpose of the Ku Klux Klan in relation to politics was to ________ the voices of Republicans and the Black community.

restrict

Which of the following is NOT true of the Southern Farmers' Alliance?

They gave farmers subsidies when they did not grow crops.

Whose openly racist rhetoric in the 1889 gubernatorial election evidenced the acceptability of this position in the late-nineteenth century?

Philip Watkins McKinney

How was the Lost Cause interpretation viewed in the North? 

It was accepted almost without question.

A poll tax was a fee required in order to be registered to ________.

vote

The city of _______________ became the center for tobacco, the tobacco market, and cigarette manufacturing in the late 1800s.

Danville

The first tenet of the Lost Cause interpretation is that ______________ was not the cause of the Civil War.

slavery

How did the federal government under Ulysses S. Grant respond to the Klan in the 1870s?

It took measures to stop their efforts.

The Lost Cause interpretation became a justification for _____________ during the century following the war.

racism

Which of the following was NOT a factor prompting Virginia's population to move to the cities?

The cities provided incentives to immigrants.

In 1884, the General Assembly passed what act that limited political participation of Black Virginians?

The Anderson-McCormick Act

The landmark court decision Plessy v. Ferguson established the ______________ _____ ____________ standard and helped justify racial segregation.

separate but equal

Virginia Governor James Lawson Kemper saw education as a __________________, not a necessity.

luxury

The Olcott Settlement settled the issue of Virginia's _______.

debt

Laws that discriminated against Black Southerners became known as ___________ ____________ laws.

Jim Crow

After the Civil War, the ________________ industry expanded in the South, replacing the North as the largest producer in the nation.

textile

As a marketing technique, Allen & Ginter developed and popularized the ______________ __________ as we know it today.

baseball card

The loss of slave labor in the South was the primary factor in the reduction of what after the Civil War?

Land values and agricultural production

In an effort to address the needs of farmers, the state government created _______.

a Department of Agriculture

The _________ _____ doomed many small Virginia towns.

Panic of 1893

What two prominent Virginians were able to build a powerful political organization in the 1890s?

• Thomas Staples Martin

• Hal Flood

During the _____________ ________________, over 7 million African Americans moved away from the South to the economic opportunity and political freedom of Northern cities.

Great Migration

Who was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution and the leader of the "New South" movement?

Henry Grady

Which of the following were among the first public colleges in Virginia created in the 1870s?  (Choose all that apply.)

• Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute

• Virginia Tech

Which of the following were flaws in the sharecropping/tenant farming systems? (Choose all that apply.)

• It created a dependency all its own.

• It usually locked individuals into vicious cycles of debt.

• It was dependent on crop yields and prices.

The _____________ _________________ interprets the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction in a way that puts the Confederacy in a positive light and remembers the South before the Civil War as a peaceful, happy society.

Lost Cause

By 1880, which of the following were the leading industries in Richmond? (Choose all that apply.)

Ironworks

Cigarette manufacturing

In the 1890s, powerful white Southerners made an effort to _____________________ white and Black society.

segregate

Which two states replaced Virginia as America's leaders in tobacco production in the late 1800s?

Kentucky

North Carolina