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Question 11

Ladies' Memorial Associations helped memorialize dead Confederate soldiers and _________.

  waved the bloody shirt

  advanced the white supremacist agenda

  waved the white flag

  advanced the lost cause narrative

Question 17

How did opponents circumvent the 15th Amendment?

  They used the Language of W.E.B Du Bois to deny black civil rights

They relied on social oppression by segregating society through Jim Crow laws

They used political oppression through the use of poll taxes and literacy tests

  They relied on economic oppression through the sharecropping system

Question 5

Arguments against the arbitrary nature of the Bakeshop Act pointed at _____ as someone who would be surprised that their everyday activities were deemed dangerous.

  children

  school teachers

  housewives

  ministers

Question 6

Why was the Lochner Case surprising to those who study Supreme Court decisions?

Because Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes broke with his own legacy to side with the majority

Because the Court routinely backed regulations on business before the Lochner decision

  Because the spelling in the opinion was bad

  Because they never supported working class claimants

Question 8

How did Edison try to defeat Westinghouse in the fight over electricity standards?

He paid the city of New Brunswick to install his technology instead of Westinghouse's

  He pointed out that it wasn't an environmentally sound invention

  He played on anti-immigrant fears

  He associated Westinghouse's technology with death

Question 15

What was a key factor in the decline of organized labor?

ownership started paying high wages that negated the need for organization

  labor unions were deemed illegal by the U.S Supreme Court

  labor leaders were labelled as radical extremists and un-American

  ownership groups started offering better retirement plans

Answer 1

Ans. 11

Option D

LMA’s primary work to advance the lost cause narrative with the help of Lost cause confederacy.

Ans. 17

Option C

Opponents used political oppression through the use of poll taxes and literacy, they also used verbal opposition.

Ans. 5

Option A

Ans. 6

Option B

Because was aware of economic conditions and also concerned about economic theories.

Ans. 8

Option D

Edison associated the AC current with death because he was opposing AC technology and supporting DC.

Ans. 15

Option C

Labor leaders were labeled as labor bosses or extremists who do not support economic growth.