Chapter Summaries, Part 1 of 4, Coming of Age in Mississippi, by Anne Moody

Book Summary

The book is divided into four parts:

1) Childhood

2) High School

3) College

4) The Movement

Below are the most important events in each of these four parts of the novel and how they affect Anne Moody and her coming of age.

Part One: Childhood

Chapter 1

Anne (Essie Mae) lives with her mother, her father, her sister Adline, and her brother Junior on "Mr. Carter's plantation." Although the story is set in the late 1940's, the reader can't tell from the first page of the novel exactly what time period the story is in. It sounds like it could be any time - before or after the civil war and reconstruction. Moody begins the book this way in order to show the timelessness of black oppression in America. 

The first major event: George Lee, Essie Mae's cousin who is babysitting for her and her siblings, burns down the family's house in a fit of anger and blames it on Essie Mae. When Daddy gets home, Essie Mae gets punished for a crime she didn't commit. This foreshadows the injustice and tyranny that will always lurk in Essie Mae's life.

Chapter 2

Essie Mae's parents separate. Her dad abandons her pregnant mom for a "yellow woman," a mulatto Florence who "holds herself high and mighty" because she is not fully black. Essie Mae's mom is a strong woman, a survivor. After much crying and pain, she manages to find a job in the city and supports her four kids on her cafe salary. Essie Mae's strength throughout the novel is definitely influenced her mother's resourcefulness and ability to survive in the face of poverty and crisis. 

Chapter 3

Essie Mae visits the house of her grandmother (Winnie) with her Uncle Ed, and she finds two white-looking boys, Sam and Walter, who are also sons of Winnie and are her uncles. She is confused because she doesn't know why her uncles look white. Her mother is snappy with her when she asks her why. This is one of the first times she is confronted with the difference in skin color in her life.

Chapter 4

The next time she is confronted with the issue of race is when she makes friends with a few white neighbors as a kid and goes to see movies with them. She discovers that she is not allowed to go to the regular seats with the white kids but must go to the balcony with the black people. She doesn't understand what made her white playmates different from her and why they have better toys than she does. She tries playing "doctor" and examines them to find an answer but is unable to do so. This shows Essie Mae's early concern with the question of race, an issue which she spends her whole life pondering over and fighting for.

Chapter 5

Essie Mae begins working for white ladies starting when she's 9 years old in order to help out with the family. She works for many employers, some kind and some nasty. Her first employer paid her two nickels a week and some disgusting sour milk that has been lapped up by cats.

There's Linda Jean, a very nice white employer, and her mother Mrs. Burke who is a terrible control freak white supremacist. But the employer that influences Essie Mae the most is Mrs. Clairborne, who treats Essie Mae like a daughter and allows her to eat at the table with the white family and teaches Essie Mae about the white world. Essie Mae is different from her peers and from her family because of her education from Mrs. Clairborne and her white employers. She learns early on what race means in America, and that is why she is so much more concerned about the issue of race than her mother and her friends. 

Chapter 6

Mama has a long affair with a man named Raymond. She has three kids with Raymond but Raymond would not marry her. Raymond's mother, Miss Pearl, did not like Mama. Miss Pearl was also "yellow" and bigotted about being less black than Mama. Finally, Raymond and Mama do get married, but Raymond is a coward and never ever finds the courage to stand up to his mother.

Mama, Raymond, and the kids move in next to Miss Pearl and her family. Essie Mae is set in eternal competition with Darlene, a girl her age who is a granddaughter of Miss Pearl in the house next door. Mama tries really hard to get Miss Pearl to like her, but is never able to do so, and is always really sad. Raymond never stands up for Mama. 

Chapter 7

Trying to get on Miss Pearl's good side, Mama joins Miss Pearl's church and gets Essie Mae to do so too. Essie Mae does very well in Sunday school and gets very involved in the church community. But Mama wasn't happy because Miss Pearl was still mean to her and would not accept her. After one really bad Sunday, Mama decides to go to back to her old Church at Centreville and forces Essie Mae to go back with her too.

Chapter 8

Raymond tries to farm. It's a difficult process. He buys land cheap, only to find the land is loaded with hand grenades and mines from the war. He tills through the land and plants cotton. The cotton grows okay but they don't make nearly enough money from it. Essie Mae works one summer on the farm. She hates the sun and is dreadfully afraid of getting a sun stroke. She decides when she grows up she would never be a farmer because she wants to get out of this black system of poverty. She doesn't want to live her life like my mother and Raymond.

"I knew if I got involved in farming, I'd be just like Mama and the rest of them, and that I would never have the chance." (p.89)

Chapter 9

Linda Jean, an employer of Essie Mae, is a poor white woman. She treats Essie Mae nicely, but her mother, Mrs. Burke is terribly white-supremacist. She insists on Essie Mae's calling Linda Jean '"'Mrs. Jenkins.'"' When Essie Mae works for Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Burke tries to do everything and anything to break Essie Mae's spirit and make Essie do things her way (ex. The correct way to iron shirts; using the back door instead of the front). But Essie Mae persists and eventually tires out Mrs. Burke. Essie Mae's strength and stubbornness is reflected in her struggle with Mrs. Burke.

Chapter 10

Essie Mae is a beautiful young girl and wins homecoming queen in 8th grade. In the process she fundraises a lot of money for her school with the help of her homeroom and her homeroom teacher. She learns a lot about organizing people from this experience, a skill she will use later on in the Black Empowerment Movement. Daddy buys her a beautiful blue dress for her homecoming parade.

Chapter Summaries, Part 2 of 4, Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Below are the most important events in each of these four parts of the novel and how they affect Anne Moody and her coming of age. 

Part Two: High School

Chapter 11

One HUGE event which affects Essie Mae, whose name is now changed to Anne, is the murder of a young boy, Emmitt Till. Emmitt Till was 14 and was visiting Mississippi from Chicago. He allegedly whistled at a white woman and was killed by white men. Anne is really bothered by this issue and can't sleep or work for days.  

Chapter 12

Anne overhears her employer, Mrs. Burke, speak about the NAACP with her "Guild" (her group of white-supremacist friends). Anne asks her mother what NAACP is and her mother told her she shouldn't know, so she asks her teacher, Mrs. Rice. Mrs. Rice tells her what it is and helps her develop an understanding of black/white America. Later, Mrs. Rice is fired. Mrs. Rice was the first guiding light for Anne to the Movement. 

Chapter 13

Other unfair black/white incidents: Bess and Mr. Fox, Jerry and the operator woman, the Taplin family house burnt down, Benty and Rosetta. All these incidents show how interracial relationships lead to violence. 

Chapter 14

Anne tutors Mrs. Burke's son, Wayne, and Wayne's friends in algebra. Wayne starts to have a crush on Anne and Mrs. Burke is furious. Anne eventually quits because Mrs. Burke was making life difficult for her. An equal relationship between a black female and a white male was virtually impossible. 

Chapter 15

In order to keep herself from going crazy with all these terrible things happening around her, Anne busies herself with doing lots of extra-curricular activities at school: basketball, tumbling, piano, working for white ladies. She is very smart, gets straight A's, and does very well in school. Anne shows herself to be a girl of immense potential. 

Chapter 16

The Principle of her high school, Principle Willis is an Uncle Tom. Samuel O'Quinn, a black empowerment activist and NAACP member was trying to secretly organize a meeting in Centreville, and Principle Willis tattled on him. Samuel O'Quinn was shot by white men. Anne develops an intense hatred Principle Willis and "Uncle Toms" like him. 

Chapter 17

Over the summer, Anne goes to New Orleans to live with her Uncle Ed in hopes of finding a high-paying job as a waitress. She finds that a good job is hard to come by. At first, she is ripped off of two-week’s worth of work by Mrs. Jetson, a poor white lady. Then she goes and works as a scab worker at a slaughterhouse of chickens. She is sickened so much by this experience that she doesn't eat chickens for years after. She also goes back to school feeling more mature than the other kids because of what she had to go through and what she understands of the world after working behind the picket fence. The next summer (summer of sophomore year) she goes back and scab workers were no longer needed, but she finds a job with Grandma Winnie in a restaurant. She is a gorgeous girl and all the boys find her very attractive. She is promoted from dishwashing, to busgirl, eventually to a waitress, and she learns about every aspect of the restaurant business from cooking to managing money – another leadership skill for her. She also meets among her coworkers Lola and Lily White, two gay men who she befriends. Lily White is a queer strip club dancer. Lola teaches her to dress nicely and accentuate her body.

Chapter 18

Everyone is attracted to Essie Mae when she comes back home from New Orleans, including her basketball coach, Mr. Hicks, and her stepfather, Raymond. Essie Mae gets especially pissed off at Raymond one day for being a horny, lazy ass, and blows a fuse. She threatens to kill him with a piece of glass. Then she runs away from home and gets the racist sheriff, Cassidy, to pick up her clothes from Raymond and her mother's house. She moves away to her Daddy's house.

Chapter 19

Daddy's new wife, Emma, is a strong woman whom Anne learns to love. She goes with Emma to dinner with Emma's family. Emma is full of energy and warmth. Unlike Raymond, Emma stands up to her "yellow" family and makes her family love Anne's Daddy. Emma's brother-in-law Wilbert gets in a huge fight with his wife over financial issues and threatens to kill his wife. Emma gets in the way and as a result has her foot shot off by Wilbert.

Daddy carries Emma to the truck with a "supernatural force" and the reader knows that Daddy really loves Emma. Emma is good-natured in the hospital. She did not blame Wilbert for her injury but "put the blame where it belonged," on the white people and the American society which make life so difficult for Wilbert and his family.

Chapter Summaries, Part 3 of 4, Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Book Summary

The book is divided into four parts:

1) Childhood

2) High School

3) College

4) The Movement

Below are the most important events in each of these four parts of the novel and how they affect Anne Moody and her coming of age.

Part Three: College

Chapter 20

Out of high school, Anne tries to go to college but realizes she can't pay for it. She gets a basketball scholarship to Natchez College, an ugly little college in Mississippi. She becomes the star of the basketball team, but she gets in an argument with Miss Adams, the dean's secretary, in a challenge of authority. The President agreed with Anne in the dispute and this pisses off Miss Adams who is a manager of the basketball team. She makes life miserable for Anne. This shows Anne's strength and her courage to stand up for what she thought was right, no matter the risks. 

Chapter 21

Anne has a boyfriend, Keemp, and they kiss for the first time. She is very prude about guys although she is incredibly gorgeous and sought after by many. 

Also, in Natchez College, Anne starts a boycott of the school cafeteria when maggots are found in the grits. The cook, Miss Harris, is a nasty old woman who knew that the food was spoiled but didn't care. The protest goes up to the President and the President once again agrees with Anne. This protest is a prelude to the sit-in's that she will be doing during the movement. Anne graduates Natchez with straight A"'"s, as usual, and this impresses to President very much. The President recommends her to acquire a scholarship at Tougaloo, the top black college in Mississippi. 

Chapter 22

In Tougaloo, Anne quickly becomes involved with the NAACP and the SNCC. She attends the famous Woolworth sit-in and after this becomes bound with the black empowerment movement. Meanwhile, her mother writes her letters telling her to stop her involvement with such stupid organizations. Her mother is afraid of her family being killed by white supremacists at Centreville. The difference between Anne and her mother becomes apparent: Anne hopes for change and reform, but her mother is so settled in with the ways of racial etiquette and the fear for her life, she cannot believe in change. She tells Anne that black people will always have to deal with the misery in life, and after Anne dies (and she will die soon because she is involved with such a dangerous cause) life will remain the same for black people. Anne doesn't believe her and continues working for the civil rights movement.

Chapter Summaries, Part 4 of 4, Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Book Summary

The book is divided into four parts:

1) Childhood

2) High School

3) College

4) The Movement

Below are the most important events in each of these four parts of the novel and how they affect Anne Moody and her coming of age.

Part Four: The Movement

23. Anne spontaneously decides to sit-in at a bus stop and almost gets herself killed by an angry white mob. She participates in many protests thereafter and works with many famous black empowerment leaders such as Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King.

24. Anne works in Canton, Mississippi for the cause of voter registration. It's very frustrating work and she suffers a huge burden from fear and pressure. People involved in the movement die left and right. Anne finds herself on a KKK black list. She fears for her life. She also finds that her family is afraid to communicate with her. When she finally quits her job in Canton and goes back to her family, she sees how complacent they are with their situation and that frustrates her as well. Her family treats her like a stranger and thinks her selfish for endangering them by getting involved in the Movement. She is miserable and doesn't fit in anywhere. She graduates from Tougaloo and no one goes to her graduation. Her sister Adline gives her a pretty green dress.

25. The story ends with the murder of McKinley in front of a gathered group of a gathered group of nonviolent civil rights activists. Tired Anne Moody wonders if things will change.

QUIZ Chapter 18

CHAPTER 18

The Progressive Era, 1900-1916

Quiz Result

1. Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as

Topic: Urban Age, Consumer Society, Muckrakers

a. Muckrakers.

b. Bushwhackers.

c. Ditch-diggers.

d. Stand-patters.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          728

2. Progressive-era feminists were

Topic: New Feminism, Rise of Personal Freedom

a. fewer in number than during the Gilded Age.

b. engaged in a wide range of social causes.

c. more interested in Freudian psychology than in the right to vote.

d. all of the above.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          746-747

3. Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Topic: Teddy Roosevelt, Expanding Role of Government, New Freedom and New Nationalism

a. Pure Food and Drug Act; publication of The Jungle; assassination of President McKinley; election of Woodrow Wilson

b. Northern Securities case; Pinchot-Ballinger controversy; reelection of Roosevelt; Hepburn Act

c. creation of Federal Reserve System; election of William Howard Taft; Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; Lawrence textile strike

d. assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act

Feedback/Reference: REF:          757-758, 760, 762

4. The 1909 "uprising of the 20,000" was

Topic: Intro

a. an organized effort on the part of manufacturers to secure property rights in the face of Populist opposition.

b. an interracial rebellion of sharecroppers in Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

c. a walkout of garment workers, which led to a victory for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.

d. a mass meeting of farmworkers in Wichita, Kansas, at which they sought to advance the subtreasury plan.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          724

5. The organization of middle-class and upper-class women and impoverished immigrants founded in 1903 to bring women workers into unions was called the

Topic: Intro

a. Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

b. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.

c. National Consumers' League.

d. Women's Trade Union League.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          724

6. The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes

Topic: Intro

a. a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.

b. a type of life insurance, and auto insurance then available.

c. a self-help movement in which one was to take pro-active measures in seeking to overcome one's aggressive tendencies.

d. a movement that sought to recapture America's lost glory through an active policy of global imperialism.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          725

7. The Progressive Era was a time of

Topic: An Urban Age, Consumer Society, Farms and Cities

a. desultory economic performance in the economy, and decreasing wages.

b. economic recession.

c. explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, and increased industrial production, and "Golden Age" for American agriculture.

d. economic downturn for agriculture in America, and uneven growth in the industrial economy.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          726

8. All of the following were muckrakers, except

Topic: Muckrakers

a. Lincoln Steffens.

b. Ida Tarbell.

c. Upton Sinclair.

d. Theodore Roosevelt.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          728

9. Between 1901 and 1914,

Topic: Immigration as a Global Process

a. 13 million immigrants came to the United States.

b. there was a net outflow of population from the United States to other countries.

c. 17 million Asian immigrants arrived on America's shores.

d. 3 million immigrants came to the United States.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          729

10. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's view, as she wrote in her influential book Women and Economics (1898),

Topic: Working Women

a. American women were freer, wealthier, and healthier than ever before in human history and should celebrate these newfound achievements.

b. the new industrial economy afforded women more opportunities and freedoms than ever before, even if economic growth was uneven across the country.

c. prevailing gender norms condemned women to a life of domestic drudgery; women were oppressed, and a housewife was an unproductive parasite.

d. socialism, not capitalism, was the way forward.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          735

11. The Progressive Era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called

Topic: Rise of Fordism

a. Progressive-era plenty.

b. Fordism.

c. the Affluent Society.

d. the American Way.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          736

12. Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except

Topic: An American Standard of Living

a. a decent standard of living for working people.

b. an endorsement of the rights of working people to organize unions.

c. repudiating competitive individualism in favor of a more cooperative vision of the good society.

d. the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          737

13. What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, and Asian-Americans, as well as white men?

Topic: AFL and IWW

a. Industrial Workers of the World

b. the National Civic Federation

c. the American Chambers of Commerce

d. the Federated Employers International

Feedback/Reference: REF:          743

14. The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was

Topic: New Immigration on Strike

a. a precursor to the Sioux Indian attack against General George Armstrong Custer.

b. an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.

c. a premeditated attack against Native Americans in South Dakota by the federal militia.

d. a massacre of frontier settlers by Sioux, Cheyenne, Algonquin, and Narragansett Indians.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          745

15. In 1907, at a time when segregation had become much the norm throughout the South, in which city did a strike of 10,000 black and white dockworkers take place, as a remarkable expression of interracial solidarity?

Topic: New Immigration on Strike

a. Charleston, South Carolina

b. Wilmington, North Carolina

c. New Orleans, Louisiana

d. Newport News, Virginia

Feedback/Reference: REF:          744

16. A principal organization in the early twentieth century that battled for civil liberties and the right of individual freedom of speech was

Topic: Labor and Civil Liberties

a. the American Chambers of Commerce.

b. the Industrial Workers of the World.

c. the National Civic Federation.

d. the Ladies' Christian Temperance Union.

Feedback/Reference: REF:          745

17. What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?", and whose definition of feminism emphasized greater economic opportunities, the vote, and open discussions of sexuality?

Topic: New Feminism

a. the Feminist Alliance

b. the Lyrical Left

c. the Woman's Christian Temperance Organization

d. Heterodoxy

Feedback/Reference: REF:          746

18. In Progressive-Era America, what particular locale became known as a center of sexual experimentation, attracting women interested in free sexual expression and, with its aura of tolerance, attracted many homosexuals?

Topic: New Feminism

a. Greenwich Village in New York City

b. Hoboken, New Jersey

c. The Bronx, New York

d. Westerville, Ohio

Feedback/Reference: REF:          746

19. Who was the woman best known during the second decade of the twentieth century for promoting birth control?

Topic: Birth Control Movement

a. Margaret Sanger

b. Florence Kelley

c. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch

d. Frances Perkins

Feedback/Reference: REF:          747-748

20. Who was the Progressive-Era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize?

Topic: State and Local Reforms

a. Hazen Pingree

b. Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones

c. Mary "raise less corn and more hell" Lease

d. "Big" Bill Haywood

Feedback/Reference: REF:          750

21. Who was the early twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin, who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?

Topic: State and Local Reforms

a. Robert M. LaFollette

b. Hazen Pingree

c. Randolph Bourne

d. Samuel Jones

Feedback/Reference: REF:          750

22. The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is

Topic: Progressive Democracy

a. the Fifteenth Amendment.

b. the Sixteenth Amendment.

c. the Seventeenth Amendment.

d. the Eighteenth Amendment.

QUIZ Chapter 17

CHAPTER 17

Freedom’s Boundaries, At Home and Abroad, 1890-1900

·         1. The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights

o    a. eastern Europe.

o    b. the Caribbean.

o    c. China.

o    d. Scandinavia.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 698

·         2. A leading opponent of American imperialism was

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, Republic or Empire

o    a. Rudyard Kipling.

o    b. Albert Beveridge.

o    c. Theodore Roosevelt.

o    d. William Jennings Bryan.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 717

·         3. Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

o    Topic: Entire Chapter

o    a. founding of People's (Populist) Party; William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech; birth of Farmers Alliance; Coxey's Army

o    b. Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson

o    c. sinking of battleship Maine; publication of Josiah Strong's Our Country; Platt Amendment; overthrow of Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani

o    d. Battle of Manila Bay; founding of Immigration Restriction League; Homestead steel strike; founding of National American Woman Suffrage Association

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 676-721

·         4. Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists?

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Farmer's Revolt

o    a. excessive interest rates

o    b. excessive power of the labor unions

o    c. excessive power of the banks and railroads

o    d. inadequate government response to the plight of ordinary farmers

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 679-680

·         5. Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists?

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The People's Party

o    a. using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause

o    b. creating cooperative enterprises through which to distribute their crops on more reasonable terms

o    c. holding public events to give their followers a sense of power and community

o    d. declaring political independence from the two major political parties

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 680-681

·         6. Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South?

o    Topic: The Separated South

o    a. growing tolerance, and even encouragement, by the federal government for white supremacy

o    b. a desire to discourage further biracial insurgencies

o    c. a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone

o    d. an overall narrowing of the American conception of nationhood

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 688-697

·         7. Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor?

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Rise of the AFL

o    a. Labor should avoid entanglement in politics.

o    b. Bargaining with employers over day-to-day issues is the most promising avenue for labor.

o    c. Organized labor should pursue concrete gains rather than dreamy reforms.

o    d. It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 701

·         8. Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion?

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, American Expansionism

o    a. a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures

o    b. a sense of strategic rivalry with other imperial powers

o    c. a conviction that it was America's mission to uplift "less civilized" peoples

o    d. a quest on the part of business for new markets for goods

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 704

·         9. The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Farmer's Revolt

o    a. the abolitionist movement.

o    b. the Farmers Alliance.

o    c. the prohibitionist movement.

o    d. the American Federation of Labor.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 680

·         10. The "subtreasury plan" was

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Farmer's Revolt

o    a. a policy of opening banks in each state.

o    b. a plan developed by the undersecretary of commerce that would ensure equitable international exchange.

o    c. another name for the black market.

o    d. a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 680

·         11. The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Populist Platform

o    a. direct election of United States senators.

o    b. a graduated income tax.

o    c. recognition of the rights of workers to form labor unions.

o    d. a decentralization over the control of currency.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 681-682

·         12. The 1892 presidential election was won by

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, Graphic: The Presidential Election of 1892

o    a. Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.

o    b. William Henry Harrison, the Republican.

o    c. James Weaver, the Populist.

o    d. William Jennings Bryan, an Independent.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 684

·         13. The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Government and Labor

o    a. George Pullman.

o    b. Richard Olney.

o    c. Jacob Coxey.

o    d. Eugene V. Debs.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 684

·         14. What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894?

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, Debs and the Pullman Strike

o    a. Pullman

o    b. American Railway Company

o    c. The Chicago and Sacramento

o    d. the Maine and California

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 685

·         15. The nation's urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, Populism and Labor

o    a. republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.

o    b. they did not shift their support to the Republican Party, since the Republican Party is the party of big business, and big business is opposed to the interests of the working class.

o    c. in solidarity with farmers across the nation, working people believed it was time for a change.

o    d. a sharp upturn in the economy and the return to "good times" meant increasingly that the American people shared a common cause and interests.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 686

·         16. The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, Bryan and Free Silver

o    a. James G. Blaine.

o    b. William Jennings Bryan.

o    c. William McKinley.

o    d. Grover Cleveland.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 686

·         17. The 1897 Dingley Tariff

o    Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Campaign of 1896

o    a. lowered tariff rates.

o    b. fulfilled one of the Populist Party's political party platform promises.

o    c. raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.

o    d. lowered tariff rates east of the Mississippi, while raising them in the Far West.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 688

·         18. The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves

o    Topic: The Segregated South, The Redeemers in Power

o    a. Carpetbaggers.

o    b. Redeemers.

o    c. Reconstructionists.

o    d. the Ku Klux Klan.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 688-689

·         19. The Redeemers in the South

o    Topic: The Segregated South, The Redeemers in Power

o    a. increased state budgets and improved schooling across the region.

o    b. increased spending on public schools without measurably increasing taxes.

o    c. slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.

o    d. vigorously enforced the fifteenth amendment.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 689

·         20. During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole

o    Topic: The Segregated South, The Failure of the New South Dream

o    a. sank deeper and deeper into poverty.

o    b. flourished, as industrial expansion and agricultural diversification made the "New South" the richest region in the country.

o    c. became increasingly culturally diverse as new immigrants and freedmen worked together in the region's mines, mills, and factories.

o    d. built thousands of new public schools, hundreds of hospitals, and scores of new factories.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 689

·         21. Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000–60,000 African Americans migrated to

o    Topic: The Separated South, The Kansas Exodus

o    a. South Carolina.

o    b. California.

o    c. Massachusetts.

o    d. Kansas.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 690

·         22. The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was

o    Topic: The Separated South, The Decline of Black Politics

o    a. the Readjuster movement.

o    b. the Farmers' Alliance.

o    c. the Populist-Republican coalition.

o    d. the Arkansans.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 692

·         23. Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

o    Topic: The Separated South, The Elimination of Black Voting

o    a. the poll tax

o    b. literacy tests

o    c. the grandfather clause

o    d. a religious test

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 692-693

·         24. What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?

o    Topic: The Segregated South, The Law of Segregation

o    a. the Slaughterhouse Cases

o    b. the Civil Rights Cases

o    c. Plessy vs. Ferguson

o    d. Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 694

·         25. In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed?

o    Topic: The Segregated South, Segregation and White Domination

o    a. only a few but their numbers were growing

o    b. As a result of Reconstruction politics, there were hundreds of high schools across the South for black Americans.

o    c. more than 500

o    d. none

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 694

·         26. From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly

o    Topic: The Segregated South, The Rise of Lynching

o    a. 200.

o    b. 250.

o    c. 1,000.

o    d. 5,000.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 695

·         27. What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights

o    a. The United States v. Wong Kim Ark

o    b. Yick Wo v. Hopkins

o    c. Fong Yue Ting

o    d. Saum Song Bo

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 700

·         28. Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Emergence of Booker T. Washington

o    a. W.E.B. DuBois

o    b. Frederick Douglass

o    c. Samuel Armstrong

o    d. Booker T. Washington

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 700

·         29. What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers?

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Rise of the AFL

o    a. the American Federation of Labor

o    b. the Knights of Labor

o    c. the Congress of Industrial Organizations

o    d. the Federated Amalgamated Union

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 701

·         30. Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century?

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Women's Era

o    a. temperance associations

o    b. social reform organizations

o    c. political party organizations

o    d. women's clubs

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 701

·         31. The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization

o    Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Women's Era

o    a. calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

o    b. opposed to women's suffrage.

o    c. that held meetings specifically to help men and women control their tempers.

o    d. that promoted workers' unions in the temperance industry.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 701-702

·         32. What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases?

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Lure of Empire

o    a. J. M. Price, Seapower Comes of Age

o    b. Theodore Roosevelt, The History of the United States Navy

o    c. Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

o    d. Josiah Strong, Our Country

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 704-705

·         33. "The splendid little war" of 1898 was

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Splendid Little War

o    a. the Spanish-American War.

o    b. the Mexican-American War.

o    c. the Great War.

o    d. the Philippine War.

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 705

·         34. In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives?

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Splendid Little War

o    a. the battleship Arizona

o    b. the battleship McKinley

o    c. the battleship Maine

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 706

·         35. Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, Roosevelt at San Juan Hill

o    a. William McKinley

o    b. William Howard Taft

o    c. Woodrow Wilson

o    d. Theodore Roosevelt

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 706

·         36. What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, An American Empire

o    a. the Open Door policy

o    b. the Chinese Exclusion Act

o    c. the Monroe Doctrine

o    d. the Hay Corollary

o    Feedback/Reference: REF: 710-711

·         37. What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?

o    Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Philippine War

o    a. There was no such war.

o    b. the Spanish-American War

o    c. the Cuban-Filipino Conflict

o    d. the Philippine War