Chapter 17

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

A. As a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part.

The Farmers Alliance hoped to improve American farmers economic stress by:

A. proposing the creation of government-sponsored crop warehouses

The Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruled that:

A. the Fourteenth Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship.

On what grounds did Justice David J. Brewer dissent from the majority opinion in the case of Fong Yue Ting (1893) that authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?

B. Brewer worried that a similar rationale could be used in the future to subvert the rights to due process of other people.

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

B. To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

William Jennings Bryan

B. angered Populists after giving a fiery convention speech denouncing the "Free coinage" of silver

"New immigrants":

B. arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires.

The 1894 Pullman Strike:

B. crippled national rail service and triggered the arrest of union president Eugene V. Debs

Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

B. public schools

Plessy v. Ferguson:

B. sanctioned racial segregation.

By 1900, in both the North and South:

B. the role of black soldiers in ensuring Union victory in the Civil War was all but forgotten.

By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:

B. were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists.

Which of the following statement most accurately describes the significance of the 1892 strike in Homestead, PA

C. It demonstrated the enormous power of large corporations and reflected the belief of many working Americans that they were being denied economic independence and self-governance

How did economic development in Brazil during and after the American Civil War affect the lives of southern cotton farmers?

C. The expansion of Brazilian cotton cultivation lowered global prices for the crop and led to indebtedness and loss of land for southern farmers

How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South?

C. They insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift"

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley

C. argued in favor of the gold standard

An all-encompassing system of white domination in the South was achieved through:

C. businesses serving whites before blacks.

Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of Reconstruction?

C. investors came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital investments in the region

The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

C. the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.

How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops?

C. they called for public ownership of the railroads

With the Redeemers in power in the South:

D. (both A and B) A. Louisiana became the only state in the Union where white illiteracy rates actually increased AND B. convict labor, rented out to private business owners, became a profitable venture for railroad, mining and lumber companies

Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of U.S. Chinese exclusion policies of the late nineteenth century?

D. Eastern cities experienced a dramatic increase in Chinese immigration.

Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?

D. Higher tariffs.

Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE?

D. It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform.

What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?

D. It helped southern whites cope with defeat but preserve white supremacy.

Critics later interpreted the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a commentary on the 1896 presidential election in which of the following ways?

D. The Emerald City suggests a green, unspoiled landscape still sought after by western voters

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

D. the victim's alleged sexual misconduct

The Immigration Restriction League:

D. wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate.

Why did the populist movement energize thousands of American women?

E. (both B and C) B. Talented, reform-minded women organized and strategized for Populism AND C. Western populists supported women's suffrage

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

E. The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?

E. William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

The severe depression of 1893:

E. led to increased conflict between capitol and labor

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

E. promised prosperity based on industrial expansion

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:

E. the free and unlimited coinage of silver

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

E. was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.

Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of Reconstruction.

False

Booker T. Washington urged blacks to try to combat segregation and become active in political affairs

False

Education flourished in the South, with approximately one black high school for each county by 1900.

False

New immigrants were welcomed and treated with respect because their labor was desperately needed in the cities

False

The American Federation of Labor was very much like the Knights of Labor

False

The Chinese in the late 19th Century West rarely rarely resisted exclusion laws for fear of mob violence against them

False

The Women's Christian Temperance Union was a small but effective organization that won the vote for women in many of the Midwestern states

False

William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans

False

After the 1896 election, voter participation began a steady downhill trend that continues to this day.

True

Chinese demands for equal rights forced the Supreme Court to define the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment.

True

In 1896, in the landmark decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court gave its approval of state laws requiring separate facilities for blacks and whites.

True

SOME VIEW L FRANK BAUMS BOOK THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ AS A COMMENTARY ON THE ELECTION OF 1896 AND ITS AFTERMATH

True

The Homestead Strike demonstrated that neither a powerful union nor public opinion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations.

True

The Populists made remarkable efforts to unite black and white small farmers on a common political and economic program.

True

Through a network of women's clubs, temperance associations, and social reform organizations, women exerted a growing influence on public affairs.

True