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Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 21

Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 21

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Document 21-1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses

Document 21-2: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago

Document 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony

Document 21-4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women's Suffrage

Document 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation

Document 21-6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality

Question

1. What did Jane Addams think was a problem in American society in the late nineteenth century? (See Document 21-1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses)

Too many immigrants were entering the country.

Christianity seemed to be in dramatic decline.

Young educated people lacked care, compassion, and interest.

Women were taught to be altruistic but could not deploy their skills.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is d. Jane Addams lamented that the fact that women in America were taught selfless sacrifice and charitable altruism but then were discouraged from putting thoese sentiments and skills to use.

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2. Why did Royal Melendy think saloons in working-class Chicago were so popular at the turn of the century? (See Document 21-2: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago)

Because saloons offered excellent- quality beers and other liquors.

Because saloons were ideal sites for professional networking and business negotiations.

Because saloons were more welcoming than many men's poverty-stricken home life.

Because saloons offered free sodas and milk, which made them friendly and safe for children.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. The central reason saloons were so popular in working-class Chicago at the turn of the century, according to Melendy, was because they were more welcoming than men's poverty-stricken home life.

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3. Which of the following best characterizes the way Mother Jones understood saw the conflict between business owners and workers in the early twentieth century? (See Document 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony )

As a government-orchestrated division of Americans

As a class war that had to lead to the capitalists' defeat

As a misunderstanding perpetuated by the news media

As a distraction from the nation's more important racial divisions

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. Mother Jones understood saw the conflict between business owners and workers as a class war that had to inevitably lead to the capitalists' defeat.

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4. What did all the couplets of anti-suffrage arguments have in common in Mariey Jenney Howe's parody of the opposition to women's suffrage? (See Document 21-4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women's Suffrage)

All couplets focused on economic factors.

All couplets drew on misleading statistics.

The couplets all contradicted each other.

The couplets all ridiculed men.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. Maryie Jenny Howe arranged her parody on anti-suffrage arguments so that every couplet was contradictory.

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5. What did Booker T. Washington mean when he told southern whites to "cast down your bucket where you are"? (See Document 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation)

Whites should leave the region in droves because the South's economy would not improve.

Whites should rely on foreign immigrants to improve the southern economy.

Whites should work together with hard-working blacks to improve the southern economy.

White business owners should avoid the pitfalls and dangers of the northern economy and expand their businesses only in the South.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is c. Booker T. Washington suggested that southern whites also "cast down [their] bucket" where they were to convince them to trust southern blacks and rely on their loyal and honest labor.

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6. Which of the following was one of the paradoxes that W. E. B. Du Bois observed in Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise"? (See Document 21-6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality))

Washington encouraged black businesses yet dismissed the legal protection those businesses required.

Washington advocated for industrial training but also encouraged African Americans to pursue higher education.

Washington urged Southern blacks to be submissive, but to also fight for civil rights in the courts.

Washington urged black women to marry only black men, but also praised interracial couples.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is a. Du Bois thought it paradoxical that Washington urged black businesses to strive for success and, at the same time, counseled them to postpone securing the rights that they needed to make their businesses thrive.

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7. Based on her position on the struggle between industrialists and workers, how would Mother Jones have reacted to Booker T. Washington's invitation to Southern whites to make use of the black Southern labor force? (See Document 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony and Document 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation)

She would have praised him for his accommodationist stand.

She would have charged him with failing to understand the class struggle in the South.

She would have chastised him for failing to guard the honor of Southern white women.

She would have recommended his approach to the nation as a means of guarding against immigration.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is The answer is b. Mother Jones would have pointed out that an unbridgeable class divide separated Southern blacks and white businesses.