HIST 110

Identify the statements that describe the political scene in the United States during the Gilded Age

-Americans during the Gilded Age saw the country as an island of democracy in a world dominated by undemocratic governments -powerful new corporations raise disturbing questions about the American understanding of political freedom and self government

identify some of the ways in which Blacks demonstrated their freedom following the end of the civil war

-Attending school -locating and reuniting with loved ones from whom they had been separated under slavery -attending religious services

Match the following terms of statements dealing with labor and government interactions during this period -Colorado governor Davis waite -Pullman -Coxey's Army (Jacob Coxey)

-Colorado governor Davis waite= Sent the militia to protect striking miners against company police -Pullman= strikes at the railroad car manufacturer led to a general strike by the American railway union that crippled National Rail service -Coxey's Army (Jacob Coxey)= federal troops called in to disperse hundreds of unemployed men marching on Washington

the populist platform of 1892 adopted at the party's Omaha convention remains the classic document of American reform identify the statements that describe populous platform of 1892

-Copper public ownership of the railroads to ensure farmers would have been expensive transportation to ship their crops to markets -performed a list of proposals that would restore democracy and economic opportunity

In the 1890s witnessed a major shift in the sources of immigration to United States defined the key terms pertaining to new immigrants -Eastern Europe -races -Ireland England Germany and Scandinavia

-Eastern Europe= the region from which most new immigrants came -races= descriptive term used by native born Americans is to describe new immigrants -Ireland England Germany and Scandinavia= Region from which most traditional immigrants came

identify the statements that describe the Philippine war and its aftermath

-Emilio aguinaldo the leader the Filipino rebellion against Spanish initially modeled the Filipino government on this on the United States -the war was brutal cost allies of over 100,000 people -US colonial administration immediately invested in railroads and harbors brought in American school teachers and public health officials and sought to modernize agriculture

how do the new state constitutions drafted during radical reconstruction expand public responsibilities and provide for equal rights

-Establish a state funded free public education system -created state run and state funded institutions like orphanages prisons homes for the insane

identify the statements that describe the objectives of the freedmen's Bureau

-Established schools for Blacks -provide aid to the poor and aged -secure equal treatment for Blacks before the court -settle disputes between Blacks and whites -reorganize abandoned in confiscated land in the South into 40 acre plots to allocate farmers slaves

identify the statements that describe the ghost dance and wounded knee massacre

-Fearful of a general uprising on the reservations the US government sent troops in response to the ghost dance -US troops opened fire on coast dancers killing 150 to 200 of them

Identify the statements that describe the Haymarket affair

-Four strikers were killed by police on May 3rd 1886 when the class was strikebreakers -8 men were charged with carrying out the bombing

Identify the provisions of the radical plan for reconstruction

-Fourteenth amendment -Temporary separate states into militas

Identify the statements that describe working conditions policies during the Gilded Age in America

-Hardship and economic insecurity were basic facts of life for most workers -Countries economic growth was distributed only in the evening with the top 1% of Americans totally the same level of income as the bottom half the population

Andrew Carnegie was an industrial giant of the Gilded Age identify the statements that describe Carnegie

-He leveraged vertical integration to create the largest and most technologically advanced steel factories in the world -Carnegie distributed much of his wealth to various philanthropies

Match the following individuals ideals to work related to American expansionism -James G Blaine -William H Seward -Alfred T Mahan

-James G Blaine= Secretary of State to president Benjamin Harris who urged the president to acquire key territories for naval base -William H Seward= Secretary of State who purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 -Alfred T Mahan= published the influence of sea power upon history 1890 in which he argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade

as a United States matured into industrial economy American struggle to make sense of a new social order that included better classes respectable classes and dangerous classes identify the statements that describe the nation's social problems during the Gilded Age

-Labor strikers were common as workers often complained of overwork and poor living conditions -there was a growing permanent factory population living on the edge of poverty alongside a growing class of millionaires

between 1883 1905 more than 50 people a year were lynched which is murdered by a mob in the South identify the statements describe lynching in the South

-Many victims were cuter raping white women thereby supposedly justifying lynching -some of these occurred in secret while others were advertising in advance -many individuals who spoke out against lynching face severe repercussions for their actions

within the labor movement the demise of the Knights of Labor led to a shift away from the broadly reforms passed a more limited goals that's embassy of the American Federation of Labor was indicative of this new direction identify the statements that describe the AFL

-Rather than converting the owners of industry AFL devoted itself to push employers for better working conditions and higher wages -the new Alpha policies came down his business unionism in the language of the air's business culture

Identify the statements that describe sharecropping

-Required farmers to divide their crop with the landowner at the end of the year -compromise between Blacks desire for land ownership and whites desire to discipline their labor force -preferred by former slaves because allowed them to work without white supervision -guaranteed planners the stable labor force

Identify the components of Andrew Johnson's plan for presidential reconstruction

-State conventions to establish new loyal state governments -pardon nearly all white southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the union -refusing to pay Confederate debts -abolishing of slavery -repudiation of secession -appointment of provisional governors

How did the populace try to appeal to industrial workers and how successful were those efforts

-The populace protected striking miners -urban working classes voters shifted to the Republican Party instead of the populist

Why was education so important to freed blacks during this era?

-They wanted to prepare to participate in the economic marketplace -They wanted the opportunity to take part in politics -They wanted to be able to read the bible

Identify the statements that describe the redeemers and the impact of their rise to power

-They were a group of merchants planters and entrepreneurs who dominated regional politics and sought to undo reconstruction efforts -the reduced budgets for schools and hospitals as well as reduced taxes for people who own property

Mass each of the following populist reformers to his or her notable contribution to the populist movement -Tom Watson -Mary Elizabeth Lease -William Jennings Bryan

-Tom Watson= advocated for alliance between white and black farmers -Mary Elizabeth Lease= advocated for women's suffrage -William Jennings Bryan= advocated for unrestricted minting of silver

identify the statement that describe the United States on the international stage prior to 1890

-United States was only a second rate world power -United States was focused on internal growth rather than international expansion

Identify statements that describe Booker T Washington and his ideas

-Washington urged Blacks to seek assistance of white employers who would prefer docile dependable black workers to radicalize whites -urge black said justice segregation abandoned agitation for civil and political rights

identify the statements that describe robber barons

-We exercise incredible amounts of power with little political accountability of regulation -John D Rockefeller was considered by many to be the worst of robber barons

Identify the statements that describe American westward expansion

-Western states use land donated by the federal government to establish public universities -in the 20th century the American West became the focus of federally funded dams and irrigation systems

Identify the statements that describe the civil rights bill of 1866

-define all persons born in knighted states of citizens -ensuring all citizens enjoyed a set of basic rights

identify the key regional differences between farmers in the South and the West

-farmers in the West= mortgage land to purchase equipment seed and fertilizer -farmers in the South= mainly tenant farming , Interruptions to current expectation led many farmers to go into debt and threaten them with the loss of their land

which of the following statements describes African Americans in the populist movement in the late 19th century

-in the South populist often made at First United black and white small farmers -many Blacks refuse to leave the Republican Party for the populist

Between 1890 nineteen 06 every sudden state attempted to enact laws and constitutional provisions meant to eliminate the black vote identify the methods in laws implemented to disenfranchise African Americans and to a lesser extent poor whites

-literacy requirements -Grand father clause -Poll tax

The depression that began in 1993 high in American nationalism any call for a more aggressive foreign policy which of the following were outcomes of this hyper patriotism

-new mass circulation newspapers were distributed that promoted nationalistic sentiments -Pledge of Allegiance and the practice of standing for this planning of the star spangled banner began during this.

1890s are the widespread imposition of segregation in the South laws and local customs required to segregate separation of the races had numerous precedents master falling terms dealing with segregation to the correct definition -plessy versus Ferguson -John Marshall Harlan -civil rights cases

-plessy versus Ferguson= Supreme Court approved state laws that required separate but equal facilities for the races -John Marshall Harlan= lone dissenting Supreme Court Justice and plessy versus Ferguson -civil rights cases= Supreme Court invalidated most of the Civil Rights Act of 1875

in the 1890s the farmers alliance evolved into peoples party there was greatest political insurgency identify the statements that describe the populist

-spread their messages through pamphlets newspapers and speakers -the party appealed to farmers and industrial workers alike

Chinese s father measures and restrictions put upon them through legal and illegal means matches state in Supreme Court cases of Chinese resistance to the correct description -tape versus Harley -Fong Yue Ting vs United States -United States vs Wong Kim Ark -California Supreme Court for San Francisco to admit Chinese students into public schools -Supreme Court ruled the 14th amendment awarded citizenship to children of Chinese immigrants born on American soil -US Supreme Court authorized the government to expel Chinese immigrants without due process of law

-tape versus Harley= California Supreme Court for San Francisco to admit Chinese students into public schools -Fong Yue Ting vs United States= US Supreme Court authorized the government to expel Chinese immigrants without due process of law -United States vs Wong Kim Ark= Supreme Court ruled the 14th amendment awarded citizenship to children of Chinese immigrants born on American soil

identify the statements that describe Chinese immigration and immigrants to the United States

-they were required to carry identification at all times -on the West coast face discrimination violence and some are even expelled from their own towns -Chinese exclusion act temporarily barred immigrants from China

list the following events of reconstruction in chronological order 13th amendment Ku Klux Klan establish civil rights bill of 1866 14th amendment enforcement acts

1 13th amendment 2 civil rights bill of 1866 3 14th amendment 4Ku Klux Klan establish 5 enforcement acts

During the Gilded Age the federal government sought to define a place of Native Americans in society and address questions of indigenous citizenship place the following events in chronological order -Congress extended citizenship to all Native Americans -do US Supreme Court ruled elk v Wilkins the citizenship do not apply to Native Americans -Congress eliminated the treaty system when native tribes -the Dawes act was passed dividing tribal land into parcels of land open for white settlement

1 Congress eliminated the treaty system when native tribes 2 do US Supreme Court ruled elk v wilkins the citizenship do not apply to Native Americans 3 the Dawes act was passed dividing tribal land into parcels of land open for white settlement 4 Congress extended citizenship to all Native Americans

In the late 19th century into early 20 century the United States emerged as a global empire place the following events in chronological order tracing America's rise to world power -the USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor -Theodore Roosevelt Roughriders defeat the Spanish at San Juan Hill -Filipinos revolt against American occupation -Philippines receive independence -Cuba revolt against Spanish

1 Cuba revolt against Spanish 2 the USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor 3 Theodore Roosevelt Roughriders defeat the Spanish at San Juan Hill 4 Filipinos revolt against American occupation 5 Philippines receive independence

More than 2000 African American men held public office during reconstruction they were elected into position at all levels of government including the ____ The US Senate and the state Supreme court of _____ this represented a fundamental shift in power in the _____

1 House of representatives 2 South Carolina 3 South

Douglas believe that the United States was a nation of ____ races he believed that ____ and the right to hold office both were essential to citizenship and freedom in the speech in particular Douglas argued for the rights and liberties of ___ in America

1 Innumerable 2 Migration 3 The chinese

the competing visions of reconstruction between president Johnson and the radical Republicans brought forth the nation's first impeachment charges place the following events in chronological order -dismissal secretary of war -nomination of Ulysses S grant -Tenure office act 1867 -impeachment charges pressed against Johnson

1 Tenure office act 1867 2 dismissal secretary of war 3 impeachment charges pressed against Johnson 4 nomination of Ulysses S grant

Identify where the United States had attempted to extend its territory prior to 1890 in the age of American expansionism

Alaska

Identify the groups that Ku Klux Klan targeted

Black politicians White democrats Black landowners

How did Congress attempt to eradicate the power of the Ku Klux Klan

Enforcement acts

In 1879 in 1880 an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 African Americans migrated to Alabama seeking political equality freedom from violence access to education and economic opportunity

False

The explosion that destroyed the USS Maine in Havana harbor ferry 1588 was proven to have been the work in Spanish saboteurs

False

according to social darwinism the evolutionary process in humans was based on the survival of communities working together social darwinists wanted the state to be in the means of alleviating poverty to ensure the survival of the community

False

every Republican candidate for president from 1860 to 1900 except for James G Blaine had fought in the Confederate army in the civil war

False

he conquest of the American West was a unique phenomenon in global history whereby settlers move boldly into interior of regions of a great continent where the temperature climate bringing their families crops and livestock establishing mining and other industries

False

in 1899 secretary state John Haye announced the open door policy with China demanding that Chinese authorities allow immigration to United States

False

populist refuse to support the creation of Labor unions and oppose government interference in the economy

False

the new state government under the control of Republicans failed to improve life in the South during reconstruction

False

Why did northern Republican support for reconstruction diminish in 1870s

Many northerners believe the South should be able to solve its own problems

identify the statements that describe the Knights of Labor

The motive labor included a woman in its membership

In 1894 the popular vote increased in rural areas but failed to increase substantially among the urban workers

True

The era from 1870 to 1890 was called the Gilded Age because of suggested that outward appearances were misleading and one needed to look under the surface to understand what was happening

True

The woman's Christian temperance union which grew to become the era's largest IMA organization by 1890 demanded the prohibition of beverages because it worried that alcohol threaten stability of men and ultimately their homes

True

In 1879 the United States went off the gold center to help debt ridden farmers

false

Most of the farms on the Great Plains or bonanza farms are covered thousands of acres employ large numbers of agricultural wage workers

false

The bargain of 1877 decided the election of 1876 in favor of the Republicans while the Republicans promised to recognize Democratic control the South essentially ending reconstruction

true

Identify the events and conditions that led to second industrial revolution that took place between the civil war in the earliest 20th century

Federal government enacted terrorists that protected American industry from foreign competition -there was money available for investment -the country had growing supply of Labor an expanding market for manufactured goods