Quiz 5

Analyze the table below. Identify the statements that describe the economic changes that occurred between 1870 and 1920.

Correct Answers: -Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in industry grew significantly. -The GNP per capita between 1870 and 1920 more than doubled. -Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in agriculture decreased significantly. Incorrect Answers: -Although agricultural employment increased between 1870 and 1920, the number of farms decreased significantly.

Read the excerpt from the Speech of Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé Indians, in Washington, D.C. (1879). What are Chief Joseph's complaints about the treatment of his people?

Correct Answers: -Despite his view that all men are brothers, the white men do not treat Indians as equals. -The white men do not keep their word to his men Incorrect Answers: -The white men refuse to live on Indian land with the Indians. -The white men only paid for part of the country they took from the Indians, not all of it.

Identify the statements that describe the Philippine War.

Correct Answers: -Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Filipino rebellion against the Spanish, initially welcomed U.S. forces as allies against the Spanish. -McKinley justified the brutal prosecution of the war on the grounds that the United States was trying to civilize and Christianize the Filipinos. -The U.S. colonial administration immediately invested in railroads and harbors, brought in American school teachers and public health officials, and sought to modernize agriculture. -The war was brutal, and both sides committed atrocities during the conflict that ultimately tarnished the reputation of the United States. Incorrect Answers: -NONE :(

Identify the statements that describe "robber barons."

Correct Answers: -Ironically, many of the "robber barons" rose from modest backgrounds and seemed examples of how creative genius and business sense enabled Americans to seize success. -John D. Rockefeller was considered by many to be the worst of the robber barons. Incorrect Answers: -They were instrumental in instituting the eight-hour workday for employees. -They were industrial leaders who hoarded their fortunes to pass on to their family for generations.

Identify the statements that describe examples of Christian moral reform and its successful attempts to stamp out sin.

Correct Answers: -Mann Act of 1910 -Gambling, prostitution, polygamy, and birth control were all targets of the legislation attempts to control or eliminate by Evangelical Christians in the Gilded Age. -Women's Christian Temperance Union Incorrect Answers: -Christian reformers forced through a law banning all business on Sundays.

Watch the following video featuring author Eric Foner. During this period of time, how did the workers' ideas of freedom differ from those held by the owners and managers of the industry, and how did the courts construe freedom?

Correct Answers: -Owners did not want the government to regulate business or interfere in the economy. -Laborers looked to the government to protect their rights and ensure fair working conditions. -The courts overturned numerous laws that controlled aspects of economic activity. Incorrect Answers: -Owners wanted the government to regulate business and ensure the passage of laws that would stipulate working conditions and practices.

Analyze the image of striking garment workers in New York City. What strategies employed by labor organizers does this image illustrate?

Correct Answers: -Strikes demonstrated that ethnic cohesiveness could be a basis of unity, so long as strikers were organized on a democratic basis. -Organizers printed leaflets, posters, and banners in multiple languages so each nationality was represented. Incorrect Answers: -Strikes demonstrated that ethnic divisions among workers impeded labor solidarity.

The Great War ushered in significant changes to the political borders within Europe. Evaluate the following two maps, which depict Europe in 1914 and Europe in 1919. What impact did World War I have on Europe's borders?

Correct Answers: -The Austro-Hungarian empire was divided into two nations, Austria and Hungary. Incorrect Answers: -Ireland became an independent state as a result of the Paris Peace Accords. -Germany occupied the Rhineland. -Poland, a new state, was created out of territory of Germany and Finland.

Identify the statements that describe the United States on the international stage prior to 1890.

Correct Answers: -The United States was only a second-rate world power. -The United States was focused on internal growth rather than international expansion. Incorrect Answers: -The United States invested large amounts of money into oil interests in Iran by 1890. The United States did not attend any international conferences, as they had no interest in other countries.

Analyze the table showing women's participation in the labor force from 1900 to 1930. What does it reveal about employment trends in the early twentieth century?

Correct Answers: -The percentage of married women in the labor force doubled between 1900 and 1930. -By 1930, the percentage of the total workforce comprised of women was larger than the total percentage of all women who worked. Incorrect Answers: -The percentage of married women who worked increased between 1910 and 1920. -In 1920, there were more women in the labor force than men.

As the United States matured into an industrial economy, Americans struggled 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.

Correct Answers: -There was a growing permanent factory population living on the edge of poverty alongside a growing class of millionaires, which posed a sharp challenge to traditional definitions of freedom. -Throughout the United States, state and local governments set up investigative committees to inquire into the relations between labor and capital in the face of increasing unrest. Incorrect Answers: -The iron law of wages was referred to by economists often to explain how wealth would eventually trickle down to the workers over time. -The international worker's movements espoused the idea that the laboring classes must find justice in the capitalist system.

How did the Populists try to appeal to industrial workers?

Correct Answers: -They supported the demands of Coxey's Army for the government to provide unemployment relief. -They protected striking miners. Incorrect Answers: -They opposed woman suffrage, which was a key issue of contention for the urban population. -They adjusted their core issues to align with the concerns of the urban population.

Analyze the cartoon below titled "The Greatest Department Store on Earth," from Puck magazine (November 29, 1899).How does this artist depict the American economy during the Gilded Age?

Correct Answers: -Uncle Sam sold its manufactured products throughout the globe. -The American economy was diversified, not reliant on just one product. Incorrect Answers: -The American economy, represented by Uncle Sam's Department Store, is on the verge of bankruptcy and closing. -The American economy was based on importing, not exporting products.

Identify the statements that describe Booker T. Washington and his ideas.

Correct Answers: -Washington urged blacks to adjust to segregation and abandon agitation for civil and political rights. -Washington urged blacks to seek the assistance of white employers who would prefer docile, dependable black workers to radicalized whites. Incorrect Answers: -Washington was unpopular as assaults on segregation were seen as the only way to end racism. -Washington changed the curriculum at Tuskegee to emphasize a classical education.

Identify the trends and events that catalyzed the large-scale global movement of people that took place during the Progressive era.

Correct Answers: -few opportunities in immigrants' native countries -rapid industrial expansion and the decline of traditional agriculture -political turmoil, including revolutions and burdensome taxation, in immigrants' home countries Incorrect Answers: -the promise that all immigrants would be welcomed and accepted through Ellis Island and Angel Island into the United States

Which of these events moved President Wilson, and America, toward entering World War I?

Correct Answers: -the Zimmermann Telegram -the sinking of the RMS Lusitania Incorrect Answers: -the Fourteen Points -the sinking of the RMS Titanic

The _ , founded by Carlos Montezuma, focused on the plight of Native Americans and _ federal intervention into the affairs of indigenous peoples. Montezuma believed in self-determination for Native Americans, but also demanded that Indians be granted _ and the same rights as other Americans.

-Society of American Indians -condemned -full citizenship

Identify the main objectives of these Allied leaders at the Paris peace conference.

-Vladimir Lenin: did not attend due to conflicts in his home country -President Woodrow Wilson: wanted to approve his Fourteen Points plan in order to achieve a just peace and new world order -Prime Minister Lloyd George: primarily concerned with getting what was due to the British empire and ensuring Germany was morally held responsible for the war -Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau: concerned with the interests of France, as the country had suffered the most damage and causalities out of all of the Allies

From the 1850s onward, settler encroachment on Plains Indians land sparked conflict with the U.S. government. Match each term to the correct description.

-Wounded Knee Massacre: U.S. soldiers opened fire on unarmed Ghost Dancers, killing 150 to 200 of them out of fear of an uprising. -Dawes Act: broke up the land of nearly all the western tribes -Battle of Little Big Horn: Native American victory over the U.S. army in June of 1876

During the Gilded Age, the federal government sought to define the place of Native Americans in society and address questions of indigenous citizenship. Place the following events in chronological order.

1. Congress eliminated the treaty system with native tribes 2. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that citizenship did not apply to Native Americans. 3. The Dawes Act was passed, dividing tribal land into parcels o land open for the white settlement. 4. Congress extended citizenship to all Native Americans.

On the map below, select the areas that cast all of their electoral votes for William McKinley, the Republican candidate, in the presidential election of 1896.

14 23 36

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 1.6 million members by 1904. The AFL represented mainly skilled, white, native-born workers. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in response to the lack of representation for unskilled and foreign-born workers.Identify the goals and accomplishments of these two organizations.

AFL: -advocated cooperation with corporate and political leaders to achieve workers goals -helped settle hundreds of industrial disputes and encouraged improvements in factory safety and the establishment of pensions for long-term workers IWW: -advocated a workers' revolution that would seize the means of production and abolish the state

Many politicians in Congress were willing to ratify the League of Nations treaty with some "reservations," but President Woodrow Wilson was unwilling to compromise. Why was he unwilling to compromise?

Willson believed "the hand of God" was reflected in the treaty.

Every Republican candidate for president from 1868 to 1900 except for James G. Blaine had fought in the Confederate army in the Civil War.

false

Most of the farms on the Great Plains were bonanza farms that covered thousands of acres and employed large numbers of agricultural wage workers.

false

Populists refused to support the creation of labor unions and opposed government interference in the economy.

false

The conquest of the American West was a unique phenomenon in global history, whereby settlers moved boldly into the interior of regions of a great continent with a temperate climate, bringing their families, crops, and livestock, and establishing mining and other industries.

false

The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an example of how the Indians occasionally managed to defeat army units as they sought to defend their tribal lands.

true