Chapter 19

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Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE?

Us army soldiers were well supplied and equipped

An examination of American voters in the late 19th century reveals what?

Voter turnout for both presidential and non presidential elections was very high

The Sherman antitrust act of 1890...

Was indifferently enforced and weakened by the courts

The first civilian governor of the Philippines, who gave Filipinos broad local autonomy, was

William Howard Taft

In the early twentieth century, Cuba

was occupied by troops from the United States for years at a time.

In the 1896 election the Republican Party was...

Confident of victory

In the early 1900s, which American dependency did NOT receive territorial status?

Cuba

The man appointed to supervise a major overhaul of the armed forces was

Elihu root

The election of 1888...

Involved clear differences on tariff issues between the major parties

What statement about the grange is false

It was strengthened by the end of the economic depression

The American politician who referred to the Spanish-American conflict as "a splendid little war" was

John Hay

In the early stage of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in

Manila Harbor

The bulk of U.S. soldiers in the Spanish-American War came from

National guards

In the late 19th century democrats tended to attract greater numbers of?

Protestants

Sherman silver purchase act called for the government to do what?

Purchase silver but not coin it

Throughout the late 19th century, the federal government was what?

Relatively inactive

The most striking feature of the American Party system was what?

Remarkable stability

The political battles between Stalwarts and half breeds constituted a fight between what?

Republican traditionalists and reformers

Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

Said that all nations were in a constant struggle to survive

The election of 1892...

Saw the debut of the people's party

The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed the United States

Should take possession of the Hawaii islands

In 1892 the people's party called for

A government network of crop warehouses

As veterans of the civil war retired....

A majority of the black and white males in the north received federal pensions

In 1894, Jacob Coxey and his supporters....

Called for a public works program for the unemployed

In the campaign of 1896, William McKinley

Campaigned largely from his house

In the 1896 presidential election, William Jennings Bryan ran on which party's ticket?

Democrats

American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from

Foreign crop failure

Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii

Had witnessed a revolution staged by American planters

Criticisms within the United States regarding American colonialism included all the following major arguments EXCEPT that

The financial costs of administering colonies would require burdensome taxes

The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at

The foreigners in China

In 1896, the major economic issue for William McKinley's administration was

The need for higher tariff rates

The Foraker Act of 1900

established an American colonial government over Puerto Rico

Beginning in 1898, the American war in the Philippines

lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths

According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment,

the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba to protect life and property.

The Spanish-American War revealed to American military planners

the need to improve glaring deficiencies in the army


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