Unit 4 MCQ's

"One by one the southern states have legally disenfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every southern state has passed separate (railraod) car laws with a penalty against their infringment. The race, regardless of advancement, is penned into filthy, stifling partions cut off from smoking cars." The author of the statement above was

an African American jouranlist in the 1890's

Which of the folloowing was a result of the Dawes Sevearlty Act of 1887?

American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land

"The price which society pays for the law of competition...is great; but the advantages of this law are greater...Whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it;...it is the best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." The passage above was a characteristic of

Social Darwinism

Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases?

They weakened the protections given to African Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment

In the late nineteenth century, political machines such as Tammany Hall were successful primarily because

machine politicians provided needed jobs and services to naturalized citizens in return for their votes

The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated iwth

distress over loss of tribal autonomy

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported

expansion of southern industry

Which of the following was true of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1877?

it eliminated most tribal land ownership in favor of ownership by individuals

Which of the following statements regarding the American Federation of labor is not true?

its greatest appeal was to new immigrants, many of whom were unskilled

The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized

skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the south was the

spread of sharecropping

"This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth; to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of durty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren." These sentiments are most characteristic of

the Gospel of Wealth

All of the following contributed to the rise of big business except

the Northern Securities Decision of 1904

Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860's and 1870's?

the expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible

Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?

the formation of the Ku Klux Klan