Question 1
How did this efficiency chart from the Central Tube Company in Pittsburgh associate the beliefs of social Darwinists to scientific management of skilled and unskilled jobs at that company?
A) Asian workers from China and Japan outperformed African Americans.
B) Irish workers were valued as highly skilled workers at this company.
C) White Americans performed strongest in almost every task available at the company.
D) Southern and eastern Europeans like Italians and Poles outperformed northern Europeans.
Question 2
Special Field Order No. 15 provided __________.
A) jobs to ex-slaves
B) education to African-American children
C) land to freedmen
D) territory for the establishment of black communities
Question 3
The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to guarantee voting rights by __________.
A) banning literacy tests and poll taxes
B) solely relying on the Fifteenth Amendment to protect voting rights
C) eliminating Jim Crow laws in the South that led to desegregation
D) fining and jailing any group or person who tried to prevent anyone from voting
Question 4
America's first federal constitution was known as the __________.
A) Constitution of 1787
B) Articles of Confederation
C) Bill of Rights
D) Northwest Ordinance
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