Exam 6: Power and History

Which of the following was not a response by African Americans to the imposition of segregation?

The ghettoization of African Americans refers to their migration from the urban North to the rural South.

Historians need not be concerned with the interrelations among human events.

Because historians must consider what forces have operated to shape the past, historians become involved in

Because perspective matters, historians often rely on numerous original source documents, including official documents, diaries and journals, publications, and oral accounts in recording historical events.

On the eve of the Civil War, the Southern elites numbered not more than seven thousand, yet their views dominated Southern politics.

In the __________, the American elite accepted the principle that the entire community, through the agency of the national government, has a responsibility for mass welfare.

In social Darwinism, the new industrial elite found a new philosophy to justify its political and economic dominance. This conservative philosophy permitted the conditions of the masses to

After the Civil War, industrialists became more prominent in Congress. They had little trouble voting in high tariffs and hard money, both of which

The economic collapse of the Great Depression undermined the faith of both rich and poor in the idea of social Darwinism. Following the stock market crash of October 1929, the American economy virtually stopped. Symptoms of the stalled economy included all but which of the following?

Because landed families of the Eastern Seaboard often had reason to migrate westward, the Western settlers were mainly upper-class immigrants.

In selecting and organizing their facts, historians must do which of the following?

Booker T. Washington was an advocate of accommodation by African Americans to segregation.

W.E.B. Du Bois was on the original board of directors of the NAACP, but a majority of the board consisted of white liberals. In the years to follow, most of the financial support and policy guidance for the NAACP was provided by

In the 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional because Congress had no authority to forbid slavery in any territory. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that

The _________were plantation owners dependent on slave labor.

Apply historian Richard Hofstadter's assessment of Abraham Lincoln as a political conservative to Lincoln's intent to halt the spread of slavery to the Western territories while letting slavery alone in the South.

The devices used by the white supremacy movement to disenfranchise blacks included all EXCEPT

Institutionalist perspectives focus on the structures that spawned democracy. Frequently, these national histories

Booker T. Washington's hopes for African Americans lay in a program of self-help through education. With the help of white philanthropists, he established the Tuskegee Institute where training emphasized