Describe the efforts of freedpeople to build their own ...

[Awilson837]

Question 1

What was the principle goal of advocates of standardized industrial processes and mass marketing?
 
  A) to promote diversity
  B) to enliven American society and culture
  C) to improve the lives of workers
  D) to create an integrated national economy

Question 2

The __________ industry produced Americas first business bureaucracies.
 
  A) railroad
  B) steel
  C) coal mining
  D) textile

Question 3

Describe the Compromise of 1877. What were its consequences?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

What role did Chinese immigrants play in the economy of postwar California?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 5

Describe the efforts of freedpeople to build their own communities in the years immediately following the Civil War.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[peilian]

Answer 1

Answer: D

Answer 2

Answer: A

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The election of 1876 pitted Democrat Samuel Tilden against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
  


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  Tilden won the popular vote, but disputes over the results in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida prevented him from claiming victory.
  


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  A specially appointed congressional electoral commission failed to resolve the conflict.
  


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  To break the logjam, the Democrats agreed that Hayes could assume office in return for the withdrawal of all remaining federal troops from the South.
  


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  The Republicans tacitly agreed that Reconstruction was over and that blacks in the region should fend for themselves.
  


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  As a consequence, white Southerners were free to reconstitute the prewar racial status quo.
  

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  In 1866 the Central Pacific Railroad began importing thousands of Chinese men to work on the transcontinental railroad.
  


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  When the railroad was completed in 1869, many Chinese sought work elsewhere in the West.
  


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  By 1870, 40,000 Chinese lived in California and represented fully one-quarter of the states wage earners.
  


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  They found work in factories, shops, and agriculture.
  


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  White workers began to cry unfair competition against this Asian group that was becoming increasingly integrated into the regions economy.
  

Answer 5

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Soon after the wars end, southern blacks set about building free communities devoted to the social and educational welfare of their own people.
  


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  Differences among blacks based on income, jobs, culture, and skin color at times inhibited institution-building.
  


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  For the most part, postbellum black communities united around the principle that freedom from slavery should also mean full citizenship rights.
  


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  Networks of freedpeople formed self-help organizations.
  


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  All over the South, black families asserted their independence.
  


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  Tangible signs of the new emerging black communities, such as schools and churches, infuriated most southern whites.
  

[Awilson837]

Great answer, keep it coming

[rachel]

Excellent