Chapter 17

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.

Philippine war

Women's economic opportunities and rules in the public life expanded

Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:

We're forced it out of politics in past leader ship to female African-American activist.

By the end of the 19th century African-American men in the south.

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.

How are federal troops are used in the pool man strike of 1894?

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

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

They called for public ownership of the railroads

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

encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.

In his Atlanta speech in 1895, Booker T. Washington

Argued then native born white women's vote should counteract the "ignorant foreign vote"

In the 1890s the national American woman suffrage Association:

Argued in favor of the gold standard

Republican presidential candidate William McKinney

The eventual return of most black migrants to the south

The "Kansas exodus" meant all of the following except

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

The Chinese exclusion act of 1882

Proposing the creation of government sponsored crop warehouses.

The farmers alliance hope to improve American farmers economic stress by:

Wanted to bar immigrants under the age of 18

The immigration restriction league:

Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for woman suffrage.

The women's Christian temperance union (WCTU):

Domination of nonwhites by white people was necessary for the progression of civilization.

What did the term "white man's burden" mean

Press scrutiny of the strike since stock prices up after Carnegie steel company suggested that "all press is good press" for corporate owners

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

Control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval and commercial power

Which of the following was the reason for the US control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?

Investors came to the south for cheap labor in low taxes, so they made few capital investments in the region.

Why did the south failed to attract significant economic development in the wake of reconstruction?