Author Question: Several factors account for the obsession with race in the 1890s, including which of the following? ... (Read 89 times)

MirandaLo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Booker T. Washington was the founder of __________.

A) the Hampton Institute
B) Howard University
C) the Tuskegee Institute
D) Morehouse College

Question 2

Booker T. Washington urged black people to __________.

A) leave the South
B) concentrate on economic goals
C) form their own nation
D) fight for their civil rights

Question 3

What were students taught at the Carlisle Indian school?

A) vocational skills
B) Greek and Latin
C) the liberal arts
D) traditional Indian religion

Question 4

Several factors account for the obsession with race in the 1890s, including which of the following?

A) Progressive reformers became aware of discrimination and oppression of minority groups.
B) The supposedly scientific nature of racial categories was largely discredited.
C) The New Immigration from eastern Europe raised concerns about conferring citizenship on non-Anglos.
D) Non-whites had come to make up more than 50 percent of the American population.