HISTORY TEST 1 UH TILLORY

The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to

stop immigrants from entering the United States.

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.

In the early twentieth century, the theory of eugenics

supported the restriction of immigration by nationality.

The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was

the A&P.

Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

the Pullman strike

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians.

According to the terms of the 1901 Platt Amendment,

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

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

the Yurok

Organized labor in the late nineteenth century failed to make great gains due to all the following factors EXCEPT

the absence of state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers.

In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT

the automobile industry.

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

All these answers are correct.

In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,

All these answers are correct.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

All these answers are correct.

Theodore Roosevelt's famous charge in the battle of San Juan Hill

All these answers are correct.

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

had expanded significantly.

In 1898, pressure for American entry into war in Cuba came from

imperialists.

During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States

increased significantly.

Beginning in 1898, the American war in the Philippines

lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths.

In 1901, one of the first professions to organize on a national level was in the field of

medicine.

In the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by

moderately well-to-do people.

Thorstein Veblen argued that

modern societies should rely on a handful of experts to solve their social problems.

In regards to divorce in the United States during the progressive era, by 1916

more than ten percent of all marriages ended in divorce.

In the 1840s and 1850s in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility.

During the progressive era, one of the first targets for political reformers was

municipal governments.

Which of the following was NOT a significant source of resentment for the late nineteenth-century farmers?

neighboring farms

As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped win approval for

the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.

The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was

Chief Joseph.

In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their nationality were

Chinese.

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.

In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of

Geronimo.

In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was

Herbert Spencer.

Which American writer would be LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?

Mark Twain

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

None of these answers is correct.

Regarding Samoa, the American Navy had a particular interest in the natural harbor at

Pago Pago.

In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Pennsylvania.

In the Far West in the 1870s, the largest single Chinese community was located in

San Francisco.

At its height in 1886, the Knights of Labor were led by

Terence V. Powderly.

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

cut wages by 25 percent due to a slumping economy.

To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was

cutthroat competition.

In the 1890s, the interest in American expansion overseas was motivated in part by

fears that domestic natural resources would soon be in limited supply.

In 1899, supporters of the annexation of the Philippines argued the United States had set a precedent for taking land while treating its inhabitants as dependents in the case of the

federal government's treatment of American Indians.

In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.

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

had witnessed a revolution staged by American planters.

During the progressive era, reformers of city government frequently tried to

hire professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers.

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve occupational safety

included a new federal regulatory agency.

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.

In the 1890s, farmers favored the federal government's coinage of silver because

it would result in an inflation of currency.

The term "muckrakers" referred to

journalists.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

labor union in the coal industry.

One significant innovation of urban America in the late nineteenth century was

large public parks.

The open-hearth process of making steel

made the production of large-dimension pieces possible.

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

organize industrial production into many simple tasks.

In his books, Horatio Alger

paid tribute to the possibility of social mobility in America.

In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.

Mining in the West

produced the region's first economic boom.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

resulted in the deportation of half of the Chinese in the United States.

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

Chinese tongs were

secret societies.

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

silver.

The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from

southern and eastern Europe.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were

the most widespread Indian groups in the West.

A key to Henry Ford's success in mass production of automobiles was

the use of interchangeable parts.

Later evidence related to the explosion that sank the Maine suggested the likely cause was

the work of Spanish sailors.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

they had poor individual character.

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The term "Boston marriage" refers to

two women who lived together.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

was, at one time, the largest women's organization in American history.

At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium.

In the late nineteenth century, American Populism

favored the direct election of United States senators.

In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was ________.

$290

By 1890, the percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit that were made up of immigrants was roughly

80-85 percent.

The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was

Abilene, Kansas.

The author who called on the United States to increase its naval forces in his book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, was

Alfred Thayer Mahan.

During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by

All these answers are correct.

During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of

All these answers are correct.

In 1899, those who favored the annexation of the Philippines argued

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, American universities

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, compared to other immigrant ethnic groups, Jews

All these answers are correct.

During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of American socialism was

Eugene V. Debs.

The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by

William Jennings Bryan.

In 1892, the People's Party called for

a government network of crop warehouses.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

In the late nineteenth century, as veterans of the Civil War retired,

a majority of the black and white male population in the North received federal pensions.

The story of race and the Spanish-American War saw

a significant number of black troops in the American forces.

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.

The high degree of party loyalty in the late nineteenth century is explained primarily by

a voter's regional background.

During the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World

advocated a single union for all workers.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was

an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform.

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all.

In 1873, the congressional law that officially discontinued silver coinage

became known to critics as the "Crime of '73."

The Knights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization.

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege.

At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as

being desirable.

The late nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

both highly multiracial and paid higher wages than workers in the East.

The economic decline that followed the Panic of 1893 demonstrated the

degree to which the American economy had become interconnected.

The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken the power of

state legislatures.

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

Chester A. Arthur

supported the Pendleton Act as part of civil service reform.

In the late nineteenth century, the Granger laws supported the interests of

farmers.

The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century

All these answers are correct. (destroyed the ability of Plains Indians to resist the advance of white settlers; was accelerated by Indian tribes who killed large numbers of buffalo to sell to white Americans; happened almost entirely in the space of a single decade; happened almost entirely in the space of a single decade, destroying the ability of Plains Indians to resist the advance of white settlers)

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

All these answers are correct. (leather chaps, spurs, saddles, lariats)

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

American Federation of Labor.

While progressivism has many meanings, it tended to be based on the central assumption that

American society was capable of improvement.

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was

Arizona.

Central to the success of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) was how it

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In the late nineteenth century, the issue of primary interest to the Republican Party was

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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

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In the late nineteenth century, Democrats tended to attract the greater numbers of

Catholics.

At the turn of the twentieth century, leaders in the settlement house movement tended to be

female.

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

contended that all nations were engaged in a constant struggle to survive.

In the 1870s, the internal combustion engine was developed in

Europe.

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations.

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

John Hay.

Which of the following is true regarding work conditions in American factories in 1900?

Laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.

A voter's party identification in the nineteenth century was usually a reflection of

cultural background.

Compared with the first generation, second generation immigrants were more likely to

break from their traditional culture.

In 1894, Jacob Coxey and his supporters

called for a public works program for the unemployed.

During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California

often lost ownership of their lands.

In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,

one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.

In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the

rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants.

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

reduce the costs of city services.

In the late nineteenth century, the most striking feature of the American party system was its

remarkable stability.

In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.

The election of 1892

saw the debut of the People's Party.

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

scientific inquiry.

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of

social work.

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

the frontier had made Americans a distinctive people.

In the election of 1884, "mugwumps" were

unhappy Republicans who threatened to vote for the Democrats.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens wrote extensively of the need to reform

urban politics.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration.

The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration.

An examination of American voters in the late nineteenth century reveals

voter turnout for both presidential and nonpresidential elections was very high.

James A. Garfield

was assassinated by an unsuccessful office seeker.

In the early twentieth century, Cuba

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

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

was used by the federal government against labor unions.

The Dawes Act of 1887

was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians.

To many middle-class Americans, the major labor upheavals of the late nineteenth century

were dangerous signs of social instability.

Compared to the Grange movement, the Farmers' Alliances

were far more widespread.

In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were between

white American ranchers and farmers.