Chapter 17

Which of the following was NOT a factor in shaping Gilded Age politics?

Business remained separate from politics

Which phrase best summarizes what Riis considers the cause of the problems he sees?

"throw off a scum of 40,000 human wreaks"

Booker T. Washington believed that the best way for blacks to improve their status in the US was to:

Accommodate themselves to segregation and disfranchisement while at the same time working hard and proving their economic value to society

The grandfather clause

Allowed otherwise ineligible voters to cast ballot if their grandfather had been eligible to vote

In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause

Applies only to state governments

The "new immigrants" who arrived in America after 1890 differed from the older immigrants in that they

Came from southern and eastern Europe

Which of the following was a consequence of the rapid growth of American cities?

Cities were forced to spend millions of dollars to provide drinking water

The American Federation of Labor

Concentration on concrete goals like raising wages and reducing hours of labor

Which individual would be most likely to argue that the government should not intervene the tenants?

Eugene Debs

Nativists

Feared efforts by immigrants to hold onto their cultural traditions

Late 19th century American cities differed from those in the early 19th century in that they

Had mass transportation

How did Booker T. Washington respond to the movement toward segregation and disfranchisement?

He urged black people to accept it temporarily and concentrate on economic improvement

Sexual relationships between homosexuals or lesbians in the late 19th century were

Illegal, though fairly common in several places

Which statement best describes whit American attitudes toward Indians by the 1880s?

It is our duty to help Indians leave their inferior culture and become a part of white society

Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in response to pressure from what group?

Labor Unions

Foreigners were encouraged to assimilate into American culture by all of the following factors EXCEPT:

Laws required churches to be independent of foreign influence

Jacob Riis's 1890 book "How the Other Half Lives" shocked middleclass Americans with its sensational description of

Lower-class slums

The new system of mass consumption had the most dramatic impact on

Middleclass women

Which of the following statements is LEAST true about immigration to the US between 1880 and 1900?

Most immigrants came from northern and western Europe

During the late 19th century, which of the following groups most benefited from the poverty described by Riis?

Political machines

Many Native Americans objected to the Dawes Severalty Act cause

Private land ownership conflicted with traditional Native American beliefs

In the late 19th century cases dealing with the rights of blacks, the Supreme Court decided that:

Racial segregation was constitutional as long as each race had equal facilities

Most of the new immigrants in the last 4 decades of the 1800s were

Rural people, who had difficulties adjusting to American city life

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that

States may exclude blacks from certain facilities if there are equal ones available

Which political party in the South promoted the idea of the Lost Cause?

The Democratic Party

Fear of and resentment against foreign immigrants in the late 1800s led to all of the following developments EXCEPT:

The President's support of literacy requirements for immigrants

All of the following are factors that contributed to the development of cities EXCEPT:

The attempt to build larger, more humane housing for the poor workers

Which statement best describes manufacturing in late 19th century America?

The nation had developed a regional manufacturing belt

Which statement best describes American education in the late 19th century?

The typical high school graduate was female

Which statement about Chinese immigrants is most accurate?

They formed self-contained homogenous communities in cities.

Which statement regarding Hispanos is most accurate?

They help significant political power in New Mexico

Which statement in most consistent with women's experiences in the late 19th century?

They were joining clubs that encouraged their participation in reform movements

Despite the problems of rapid growth, the duties of the late 1800s continued to grow because

They were the sources of jobs

One theme of the Gilded Age politics was the:

Triumph of urban-industrial interests

During the years from 1885 to 1900, a lynching took place early once every

Two days