History Answers

Most European slave traders _____.

A. were pirates based in the Caribbean
B. operated legally and paid taxes regularly
C. were explorers from Portugal
D. worked for companies chartered by European governments

How was the NAACP part of the Progressive Movement?

A. Both had the main goal of achieving equal rights for African Americans.
B. Both tried to preserve the traditional way of life in the U.S.
C. Both had a reform agenda to make the U.S. a better place.
D. Both were successful in placing politicians in state and federal offices

Which of these groups was founded to help African Americans from the rural South adjust to life in cities?

A. the NAACP
B. the Urban League
C. the Niagara Movement
D. the Progressive Movement

How did union struggles affect African Americans?

A. Employers hired African Americans to break strikes.
B. African Americans organized their own unions and had successful strikes.
C. White unions sometimes admitted African Americans and worked with them.
D. All answers are correct.

If talented students in your school believed in Du Bois's Talented Tenth philosophy, they would _____.

A. refuse to help their fellow classmates with any projects
B. strive to excel and offer models of the best behavior
C. give up their money and take vows of poverty
D. work two jobs to save money for college

Because of pressure from the NAACP, the army opened _____ in 1917.

A. West Point to African American candidates
B. a training school for African American officers
C. Arkansas elementary schools to African American children
D. a separate battle front for African Americans

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Before the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, quotas favored immigrants from _____ over those from other regions.

A. South America
B. Cuba
C. Africa
D. Europe

Which of the following probably did NOT affect the First Great Migration during World War I?

A. labor shortages because workers left to fight the war
B. increased demand for arms and ammunition from northern factories
C. a lack of European immigrants to hire for factory jobs in the North
D. a need for farm workers to grow more crops

How were Booker T. Washington's ideas discredited by later events?

A. His secret fight against disenfranchisement of African Americans has not succeeded to this day.
B. The Tuskegee Institute and other schools he founded no longer exist.
C. He preferred “separate but equal” segregation, and it is no longer practiced.
D. He believed African Americans should stay and work in the South but millions left in the First Great Migration.