Roosevelt's Square Deal — Unit test Answers

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Which of the following Progressive causes was helped by US involvement in World War I?

A
trust-busting
B
free enterprise
C
workers’ rights
D
women’s suffrage
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The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment led to

A
a ban on giving literacy tests to people in the southern states so they could vote.
B
more African Americans being elected to all levels of government.
C
the establishment of grandfather clauses that helped African Americans in the voting booth.
D
poll taxes being outlawed because they were discriminatory.
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The Fourteenth Amendment affected many court cases, such as Brown v. Board of Education, in which

A
women gained the right to equal pay.
B
school segregation was outlawed.
C
African Americans gained the right to vote.
D
the Black Codes became unconstitutional.
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Which best describes W. E. B. Du Bois's opinion of Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist approach?

A
It was an important tool in ending segregation.
B
It reinforced segregation and discrimination.
C
It could work, if paired with more aggressive tactics.
D
It was the cause of violence against African Americans.
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Read the quotation from Dr. Oswald P. Bronson, recalling his childhood under Jim Crow. “Even on our way to school some days, men would come by and throw oranges at us, sometimes rock perhaps. We [also] were very much aware of police brutality in that city at that time. We were conscious of the Ku Klux Klan riding around the town to keep everybody in check.” In this quotation, Dr. Bronson is describing

A
intimidation, scare tactics, and violence perpetrated by both the police and the Ku Klux Klan against African American citizens.
B
how the police protected African American citizens from intimidation, scare tactics, and violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan.
C
conflicts between the police and the Ku Klux Klan that caused violence in the city in which he lived.
D
how residents protected each other from the Ku Klux Klan and the police in the city in which he lived.

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