SOUTHERN POLITICS EXAM QUESTIONS

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SOUTHERN POLITICS EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: FEPC

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The Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) was created in 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin

• Roosevelt, "banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and

companies engaged in war-related work."[1] This was shortly before the United States entered World War II. The EO also required Federal vocational and training programs to be administered without discrimination. Established in the Office of Production Management, the FEPC was intended to help African Americans and other minorities obtain jobs in the homefront industry during World War II

Question 2: William Jennings Bryan

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Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, advocated free silver. American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people, he was often called "The Great Commoner"

Question 3: Allan Shivers

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American politician who served as the 37th Governor of Texas. Shivers led the conservative faction of the Texas Democratic Party during the turbulent 1940s and 1950s, and also developed the lieutenant governor's post into an extremely powerful perch in state government. In 1949 Governor Jester dies, elected as new governor

Question 4: William Mahone

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an American civil engineer, railroad executive, Confederate general, and politician.As a young man, Mahone was prominent in the building of Virginia's roads and railroads. As chief engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, he built log-foundations under the Great Dismal Swamp that are still intact today. According to local tradition, several new railroad towns were named after the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite author of Mahone's wife Otelia.In the American Civil War, Mahone was pro-secession and served as a Confederate general. He was best known for regaining the initiative at Petersburg, when the Southern troops were in shock after a huge mine was exploded beneath them (Battle of the Crater, July 1864), and his counter-attack turned the engagement into a disastrous Union defeat.After the war, he returned to railroad building, merging three lines to form the important Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O), headquartered in Lynchburg. He also led the Readjuster Party, a coalition of blacks, Republicans and populist Democrats, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1881.His willingness to caucus with Republicans cost him some support from the white electorate, as did his relatively lenient treatment of African Americans.

Question 5: Prohibition

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A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

Question 6: Herbert Hoover

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A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade. As president from 1929 to 1933, his domestic programs were overshadowed by the onset of the Great Depression. Hoover was defeated in a landslide election in 1932 by Democratic Franklin

• Roosevelt, who promised a New Deal. After this loss, Hoover became staunchly conservative, and

advocated against Roosevelt's New Deal policies

Question 7: Court-packing Plan of 1937

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The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937[1] (frequently called the "court-packing plan")[2] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin

• Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain

favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional.[3] The central provision of the bill would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S.Supreme Court, up to a maximum of six, for every member of the court over the age of 70 years and 6 months.

Question 8: Medicare and Medicaid

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Health benefits for the elderly and poor

Question 9: Ross Barnett

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governor in 1962 that created a riot at Ole Miss by refusing to enroll a black student

Question 10: Little Rock crisis of 1957

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a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.

Question 11: Cleburne Demands

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In August 1886, the Farmers Alliance put forth a political platform known as the Cleburne Demands, which focused on reform in land ownership, an increase in the money supply, and government regulation of railroads

Question 12: Freedom Riders of 1961

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civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960),[3] which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.[4] The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961,[5] and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17. Challenged this status quo by riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local laws or customs that enforced

segregation in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the disregard for the federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. Police arrested riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses, but they often first let white mobs attack them without intervention.

Question 13: Civil Rights Act of 1964

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outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

Question 14: Harry Truman

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Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

Question 15: Tom Watson

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an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party. He was the nominee for vice president with Democrat William Jennings Bryan in 1896 on the Populist ticket.Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1890, Watson pushed through legislation mandating Rural Free Delivery, called the "biggest and most expensive endeavor" ever instituted by the U.S. postal service. Politically he was a leader on the left in the 1890s, calling on poor whites and poor blacks to unite against the elites. After 1900, however, he shifted to nativist attacks on blacks and Catholics (and after 1914 on Jews).

Question 16: Lyndon Johnson

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36th President of the United States

Question 17: Earl Long

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an American politician and the 45th Governor of Louisiana, serving three non-consecutive terms. Long, known as "Uncle Earl", connected with voters through his folksy demeanor and colorful oratory. He departed from other southern politicians of his time by promoting a progressive agenda, including expanding school lunch programs, teacher pay, public works projects, and minority voting rights