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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Travel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the biggest problem with the police in the post Civil War era?
(a) Corruption.
(b) The crime rate was too overwhelming.
(c) They had no weapons.
(d) They did not protect the public.

2. How did people know when a ship in the late 19th century was infected with disease?
(a) The ship flew a yellow flag.
(b) The ship came into the harbor but did not anchor.
(c) The captain ran ashore with the news.
(d) The ship radioed ahead.

3. What percentage of black children received any education at all in 1890?
(a) 40%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 20%.

4. What could the Pullman sleeping car in the late 19th century be compared to?
(a) Sleeping in a sardine can.
(b) Sleeping standing up.
(c) Sleeping in a cattle car.
(d) The luxuries of an ocean liner.

5. Prisons in the latter 19th century were regarded as places of:
(a) Rehabilitation.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Crime.
(d) Punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the frontier in the late 1800s, what was the homemade liquor called?

2. Why were ferry accidents in the late 1800s common?

3. What kind of education did a teacher have to have in the late 1800s?

4. In the late 19th century on the frontier, what was a child's formal education considered to be?

5. According to Bettmann in "Air," one observer called the worst New York industrial area a:

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