AAS 33B, Section #7
Second Exam
Berney/Choi
Spring 2013
Part I. Multiple Choice & True/False
For True/False questions, answer A if the statement is true and B if the statement is false. On multiple
choice questions, select the option that BEST answers the question or completes the statement.
1) What goal does the 14th Amendment accomplish?
A) It ends slavery in the United States.
B) It extends citizenship rights to people of African descent.
C) It gives women the right to vote.
D) It establishes equal protect under the law for citizens and non-citizens for the United
States.
2) According to journalist Ida B. Wells, what was at the root of lynching in the American South?
A) White people’s fears of black economic competition.
B) White people’s fears of black voters.
C) White people’s fears of integration.
D) None of the above.
3) What policies defined Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867)?
A) Creation of Black Codes in Southern states.
B) Lenient re-admittance plan for Southern states.
C) Freedmen were denied the right to vote.
D) All of the Above.
4) How were labor camps organized in Hawaii?
A) They were organized by race and ethnicity.
B) They were organized by ethnicity and gender.
C) They were organized by race and gender.
D) Everyone lived together.
5) What policies defined Congressional Reconstruction?
A) The South was divided into 5 military districts where federal troops were stationed.
B) Wealthy white Confederates were denied the right to vote.
C) Both A and B.
D) None of the Above.
6) What were the 4 primary goals of African Americans during Reconstruction?
A) Money, Land, Politics and Family.
B) Politics, Education, Family and Work.
C) Children, Reparations, Vote and Money.
D) Education, Vote, Reparations and Vacation.
7) What goal does the 15th Amendment accomplish?
A) It ends slavery in the United States.
B) It extends voting rights to people of African descent.
C) It gives women the right to vote.
D) It establishes equal protect under the law for citizens and non-citizens for the United States.
8) What did historian Frederick Turner Jackson, who delivered a paper at the 1893 Columbian
Exposition, believe was central to the formation of the American character?
A) Natural Resources
B) Manifest Destiny
C) Frontier
D) Democracy
9) Why was annexing Hawaii important to the United States government in the late 19th century?
A) The region possessed a number of sugar plantations that the government wanted to control.
B) The region was an important source of cheap labor for the US mainland.
C) The region was a strategic location for the US military and the US’s presence in the
Pacific.
D) None of the Above.
10) What kind of community did the passage of the Page Act force the first wave of Chinese
immigrants to become?
A) Alcoholic community
B) Bachelor community
C) Childless community
D) A mixture of A, B and C.
11) During Reconstruction, what political party advocated for newly freed slaves to receive 40
acres of land and a mule in order to created a level economic playing field in the American South?
A) Democrats
B) Republicans
C) Free Soilers
D) Socialists
12) What possible anxieties did the 1869 cover of Harper’s Weekly celebrating the completion of
the Transcontinental Railroad help to produce in native born white American men?
A) Sexual and economic competition
B) Economic and sartorial competition
C) Social and political competition
D) None of the Above
13) Which two Asian ethnic groups came together in Hawaii for the Oahu strike of 1920?
A) Japanese and Pilipino
B) Japanese and Korean
C) Japanese and Chinese
D) Japanese and native Hawaiians
14) What industry did Upton Sinclair write about in his 1906 book The Jungle?
A) Mining
B) Meat packing
C) Steel
D) Garments
15) The following image created by the Workingmen’s Party helped to fuel the passage of what law?
A) Page Act
B) Chinese Exclusion Act
C) Anti-Miscegenation Law
D) Asiatic Exclusion Law
16) What concept did sociologist Robert E. Park develop in order to explain how unlike Irish
immigrants, Asian immigrants in the United States could not become “mere individuals,
indistinguishable in the cosmopolitan mass of the population.”
A) Racialization
B) Miscegenation
C) Racial uniform
D) Racial formation
True & False Questions
17) The early Japanese in California in the late 19th century were mostly farmers. (True)
18) According to Takaki, early Japanese immigrants were more willing to settle permanently in
the United States than their Chinese counterparts. (True)
19) After the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese immigrants were largely
concentrated in rural areas. (False)
20) Life on the US mainland was much more confining, restrictive and isolating for people of
Asian descent, than life in Hawaii. (True)
Long Essay
For each of the following essay questions, write a 3-4-paragraph essay. Each essay is worth 10 points
and will be assess for accuracy and the use of historically specific examples and terminology.
1) Identify and describe the central political divisions that existed between reformers and radicals
during the Progressive Era. Give at least 2 examples for each category (people or groups) and
identify what kinds of changes they helped to usher in.
2) What was socially and politically at stake during Reconstruction? How did the outcome of this
period affect the social, political, and economic status of people of Asian ancestry within the
United States?