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lilldybug07 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Lieutenant Colonel George Custer refused to __________.

A) discriminate against black troops
B) command black troops
C) assign black soldiers combat missions
D) speak with black soldiers

Question 2

Which of the following best characterizes the New South as imagined by Henry Grady?

A) an industrial, forward-looking society
B) a traditional, peaceful agrarian society
C) a dangerously divided society
D) a stagnant, backward-looking society

Question 3

How did white officials respond to the rising tide of lynchings in the South in the 1890s?

A) They created a special task force to investigate lynchings.
B) They claimed that lynching was rare or nonexistent.
C) They did little or nothing to stop it.
D) They passed new laws to punish members of lynch mobs.

Question 4

The convict-lease system provided planters and other employers access to __________.

A) cheap labor
B) public land
C) tax subsidies
D) inexpensive equipment and supplies