MS Studies - Mann - Unit 5 Test

Question 1

In the late 1800s & early 1900s, who controlled most of the wealth, land and business in MS after the decline in cotton?

Accepted Answer

Merchants

Question 2

Voting rights for black males

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1868

Question 3

Most sharecroppers were required to grow only this crop

Accepted Answer

Cotton

Question 4

Blacks during the early 20th century placed a high value on ______ because it gave them a place to be themselves.

Accepted Answer

churches

Question 5

Which of the following best describes The Mississippi Plan of 1875?

Accepted Answer

Democratic Plan to retake the southern state govts at any cost necessary.

Question 6

In 1875, teachers, preachers, black community leaders, & other Rep. officials were murdered to intimidate voters.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Extended the Governor’s term from two years to four years

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1868

Question 8

Which of the following amendments in the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 9

Which Mississippian governor described blacks as “lazy, dishonest, and mentally unfit for citizenship?”

Accepted Answer

James K. Vardaman

Question 10

Mississippi’s most successful Bourbon Democrat. Believed in White Supremacy and Color-Line Politics.

Accepted Answer

L.Q.C. Lamar

Question 11

Which amendment granted citizenship and protection under the law to all people born on US soil regardless of race?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 12

Established a public school system in Mississippi

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1868

Question 13

What group of people did Mississippi try to recruit for the labor force during the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 14

The Great Migration made the lives of blacks worse in the South, leaving the black community w/out anyone to serve it.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Segregation based on law that requires separate facilities for different races (was found in the south) is called

Accepted Answer

De Jure Segregation

Question 16

Which of the following amendments to the US Constitution saw women gain the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 17

Most of the Chinese immigrants to Mississippi decided to stay in sharecropping once they arrived in Mississippi.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Select the 2 values that were important to Bourbon/Redeemer Democrats.

Accepted Answer

They believed in the traditions of the “Old South”., To fix the mistakes that the Republicans and Reconstruction made to MS.

Question 19

Process of electing politicians where party officials nominate several candidates and then the public vote on them.

Accepted Answer

Convention Process (Old Bourbon way)

Question 20

Congress got involved with Reconstruction when MS and other southern states refused to ratify the 13th and 14th amends.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Election process where individual register to run for office followed by a primary election and then a general election.

Accepted Answer

Direct Primary System

Question 22

Which 3 the following were considered to be “middle class” African Americans during the early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Ministers/Preachers, Teachers/Educators, Businessmen

Question 23

James Vardaman ended the convict lease system, cracked down on lynching, & wanted to repeal the 14th & 15th amendments.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Most Mississippians favored women gaining the right to vote during the 1920s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Enforced segregation in the state of Mississippi

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1890

Question 26

Which of the following about the BAWI program was an incentive to get more northern companies to move to Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

Give large tax breaks to companies willing to move to MS

Question 27

A cost cutting measure to help MS pay for the prison system that involved harsh treatment of “rented" prison workers.

Accepted Answer

Convict Lease System

Question 28

The literacy tests that were required to vote during the early 1900s had no effects on the white population in MS.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Which of the following was the largest BAWI project built in Mississippi during the 1920s and 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Ingalls Shipyard

Question 30

Ended slavery on the state level

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1868

Question 31

Regulated prices on railroads

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1890

Question 32

Democratic Governor of Mississippi during the mid-1870s; Mississippi’s longest serving Governor

Accepted Answer

John Stone

Question 33

Which court case established the concept of Separate but Equal and helped create Jim Crow laws in the South?

Accepted Answer

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 34

Which 3 industries were created in MS after the Boll Weevil Crisis to help balance agriculture and bus. in the economy?

Accepted Answer

lumber production, dairy farming, canning

Question 35

Which of the following events describes the mass exodus of blacks from south to north during the 1900s?

Accepted Answer

The Great Migration

Question 36

One term influential governor of Mississippi that was supported by “rednecks.” Nicknamed “The Great White Chief”

Accepted Answer

James K. Vardaman

Question 37

MS gov elected after Bourbon Dems returned to power. Longest serving gov in MS history. Helped write the Cons. of 1890.

Accepted Answer

John Stone

Question 38

Which of the following best describes the main mission of the Farmer’s Alliance in Mississippi during the early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Get small farmers more involved in politics by paying the $2 poll tax

Question 39

Mississippi did not have any African American elected officials during Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

African American Lt. Governor of Mississippi during the early part of Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

Alexander K. Davis

Question 41

What term means “separation of the races?”

Accepted Answer

Segregation

Question 42

1st meeting of the MS Legislature after the Civil War, MS passed the 13th Amend. establishing = rights for former slaves

Accepted Answer

False

Question 43

What small insect caused mass panic during the 1920s because of its infestation of Mississippi cotton fields?

Accepted Answer

Boll Weevils

Question 44

The governor of MS in 1874, during Reconstruction, who was a vocal supporter of equal rights for African Americans.

Accepted Answer

Adelbert Ames

Question 45

What event during the 1920s caused farmers to begin shifting away from growing cotton?

Accepted Answer

The Boll Weevil Crisis

Question 46

The maj. black legislative district in the 1890s that ensured that blacks would always be outvoted in the MS Legislature

Accepted Answer

The Shoestring District

Question 47

To help with lack of cotton production in the 1920s, MS did which of the following to help balance the state budget?

Accepted Answer

Passed a sales tax

Question 48

Re-drew state legislative districts where majority black counties would always be outvoted by majority white counties.

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1890

Question 49

Established a poll tax and a literacy test in order for citizens to vote

Accepted Answer

Constitution of 1890

Question 50

Which of the following reasons for the 1874- 1876 riots in Mississippi is NOT TRUE?

Accepted Answer

Ames’ tried to fire all black republicans from the state government.

MS Studies - Mann - Unit 5 Test

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MS Studies - Mann - Unit 5 Test

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