Chapter 17

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

B. public schools.

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

C. they called for public ownership of the railroad.

With the Redeemers in power in the South:

D. a and b

William Jennings Bryan:

B. angered populists after giving a fiery convention speech denouncing the "free coinage" of silver.

Why did the Populist movement energize thousands of American women?

E. b and c

Plessy v. Ferguson:

B. sanctioned racial segregation.

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

C. argued in favor of the gold standard.

The severe depression of 1893:

E. led to increased conflict between capital and labor.

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

True

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1800s 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 worries that a similar rationale could be used int he future to subvert the right to due process of other people.

"New Immigrants":

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

The 1894 Pullman Strike:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the significance of the 1892 strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania?

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".

Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of U.S Chines 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 tarrifs

Which statement about peoples party is FALSE?

D. it emerged in 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 victims alleged sexual conduct.

The Immigration Restriction League:

D. wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate.

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?

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

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

E. promised prosperity based on industrial expansion.

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

E. the Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.

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

False

The chinese in the late nineteenth century west rarely resisted exclusion laws for fear of mob violence against them.

False

William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans.

False

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 clubs, temperance associations, and social reform organizations, women exerted a growing influence on public affairs.

True

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

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