History Final 17-18

How did racial segregation in the labor market affect African-American women?

A high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic service

Angel Island was where most Mexican immigrants entered the United States (T or F)

True

The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?

A mature consumer economy

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

A shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals

Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish American War?

Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between north and south

What was the most significant difference between Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and Ellis Island in the New York Harbor?

Angel Island had to administer the immigration of Asian and Mexican migrants

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

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

Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of Reconstruction (T or F)

False

Progressives wished to completely overthrow industrial capitalism (T or F)

False

Upton Sinclair wrote a piercing two-volume history of the Standard Oil Company (T or F)

False

Why did Progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World?

Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation

Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders?

He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations

Which of the following was a new governmental institution that Progressives had implemented by 1916 for the protection and advance of "industrial freedom"?

Independent commissions

Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of Reconstruction?

Investors came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made a few capital investments in the region

Which of the following least symbolized the growing autonomy of working women with regard to their consumerism?

Military service

Why did Montezuma call for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1916?

The Bureau had failed to secure Indian self-determination

Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American War?

The United States would have never fought the Spanish navy at Manila

What constitutional right did workers claim in defense of their public activism?

The right to free speech

Why did the Wilson administration impose a graduated income tax in 1913?

The substantial reduction of duties on imports required Wilson to make up for lost revenue

Apart from the racial identity of victims, which typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

The victim's alleged sexual conduct

Which of the following prompted some urban observers to misjudge Populists as a backward-looking movement?

Their conviction that farmers should adopt modern scientific methods

Native-born middle-class women under the leadership of Carrie Chapman-Catt argued that they deserved the right to vote on account of:

Their status as an educated and superior race

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

They called for public ownership of the railroads

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

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

Why did businesses support the Pure Food and Drug Act?

They understood that greater public confidence in the quality of the products helped their sales

Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers' ideas on the political process?

They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures

During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation (T or F)

True

The campaign of 1896 is considered the first modern campaign because of McKinley's campaign travels (T or F)

True

William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans (T or F)

True

Why was "the city" the focus of progressive politics?

Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and the most significant changes