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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one common agonizing disease that continued to break out in the South after the Civil War?

2. What percentage of black children received any education at all in 1890?

3. What could the Pullman sleeping car in the late 19th century be compared to?

4. According to Bettmann in "Crime," who was treated the worst in the prison system?

5. How were the prisoners in the prison system treated in the post Civil War era?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was "bogus butter"?

2. What type of education did blacks receive during the post Civil War era?

3. In the late 1800s, why was the public pessimistic about the growing street crime in the cities?

4. How were criminals treated in the prisons in the late 1800s?

5. In the late 1800s, why were the police not much help in the fight against crime?

6. How did teachers fight the lack of discipline in the schoolroom in the late 1800s?

7. How was drug addiction so rampant in the average population in the late 1800s?

8. Why were the some ocean liners nicknamed "fever ships" and "floating coffins"?

9. What were doctors on the frontier like, and what were the primary diseases that ravaged the country populations?

10. In the late 19th century, how did the lack of a meat-packing industry affect the quality of meat that was available to the general public?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did fear and the relative lawlessness of the open prairie play into the minds of homesteaders? What were some of the threats that homesteaders had to worry about?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the stark differences in travel for the poor and the rich on the ocean liners of the late 19th century. What was travel on these vast ships like for the rich? In contrast, discuss the "steerage" option for the poor. Provide specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

Is education a right or a privilege? Or both? Provide examples to support your position.

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