U.S. History II Final Exam

From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly: Answer Selected Answer:

5,000.

What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases? Answer Selected Answer:

Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights? Answer Selected Answer:

Booker T. Washington

the immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from Answer Selected Answer:

China.

As the subordination of blacks grew more rigid, American attitudes toward immigrants grew more tolerant.

F

Turn-of-the-century segregation laws were passed in clear defiance of Supreme Court rulings.

F

Ironically, the Farmers Alliance found greater support among industrial workers than among small farmers. Answer Selected Answer:

False

What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law? Answer Selected Answer:

Fong Yue Ting

The 1892 presidential election was won by: Answer Selected Answer:

Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.

Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor? Answer Selected Answer:

It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.

The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was: Answer Selected Answer:

Jacob Coxey.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? Answer Selected Answer:

Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson

Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African Americans migrated to: Answer Selected Answer:

Kansas.

What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks? Answer Selected Answer:

Plessy vs. Ferguson.

What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894? Answer Selected Answer:

Pullman

The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves: Answer Selected Answer:

Redeemers.

The nation's urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because: Answer Selected Answer:

Republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.

Government intervention was vital to the defeats of the 1892 Homestead strike and the 1894 Pullman strike.

T

Southern Populists forged notable alliances between black and white farmers. Answer Selected Answer:

T

Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders? Answer Selected Answer:

Theodore Roosevelt

A leading opponent of American imperialism was Answer Selected Answer:

William Jennings Bryan.

The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was: Answer Selected Answer:

William Jennings Bryan.

The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except: Answer Selected Answer:

a decentralization over the control of currency.

Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion? Answer Selected Answer:

a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures

Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South? Answer Selected Answer:

a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone

The "subtreasury plan" was: Answer Selected Answer:

a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.

Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage? Answer Selected Answer:

a religious test

The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization: Answer Selected Answer:

calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists? Answer Selected Answer:

excessive power of the labor unions

Alfred T. Mahan was the key leader of the anti-imperialist movement that tried to prevent U.S. annexation of Hawaii and the Philippines

false

As president, Roosevelt contended that big business or trusts were an unnatural occurrence in the economy and that the federal government had the obligation to "bust" them down to a more natural size

false

By 1895, almost all the population of Hawaii's main islands was of European ancestry

false

By February 1861, eleven southern states had withdrawn from the Union

false

By the 1890s more women were employed in the factories than as domestic workers

false

Chinese "spheres of influence" referred to those Pacific islands, including Samoa, where the U.S. had interests that were dominated by the Chinese navy

false

Emilio Aguinaldo was the principal leader of Cuban nationalists until he died in a detention camp prior to American intervention

false

Grover Cleveland refused to use federal troops in labor conflicts because he regarded such incidents as state matters

false

In general, railroads, moving companies, and industrial employers tried to discourage the immigration of workers from workers

false

In his debates with Douglas, Lincoln stated his belief in racial equality

false

In the developing economy of the late 19th century the majority of business tycoons personified the "rags to riches" rise to wealth and power

false

In the period between the tim ehe left the White House and the election of 1912, Roosevelt drifted away from progressivism and became more and more conservative in his approach to national policy issues

false

James Buchanan's great experience in public service helped him become one of the most successful presidents

false

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph hearst, alone among prominent American publishers, disdained the sensationalistic reporting of the Cuban revolution of the 1890s as a practiced by the nation's "yellow press"

false

Roosevelt and William Howard Taft had been long time rivals in the Republician Party before Taft became Roosevelt's vice president

false

Roosevelt blamed the Panic of 1907 on bankers and financiers and refused to cooperate with them in any efforts to revive the economy

false

Roosevelt opposed the Pure food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection act because they interfered with the laissez-faire rights of business

false

Stephen Douglas was one of the most extreme pro-slavery and states' rights advocates in the Democratic Party

false

The American Federation of Labor stressed the idea of "one big union" for all workers while the Knights of Labor was a coalition of individual craft unions

false

The American attack on the Spanish fleet at Manila resulted in the most difficult and bloodiest engagement of the Spanish-American War

false

The Federal Reserve Act made individual bank fakers less likely but had life effect on the nation's basic circulating currency

false

The Free-Soil Party opposed the Wilmot Proviso

false

The Republican Party in 1860 promised to end slavery in the southern states

false

The Spanish_American War was called the "splendid little war" because almost everything went smoothly and efficently

false

The U.S. fought a brief naval war with England over the dispute concerning the border of Venezuela

false

The largest group encounter of the Spanish-American War actually occurred in the Dominican Republic

false

The main trade commodity between the U.S. and Cuba was cotton

false

The proposed Lecompton Constitution would make Kansas a free state

false

The theory of Social Darwinism argues that great concentrations of wealth in the late 19th century violated the principles of evolution and that a great economic collapse was inevitable

false

Theodore Roosevelt was a leader in the domestic opposition to the Spanish-American War

false

When Puerto Rico was declared to be a U.S. territory and its residents were granted U.S. citizenship, all agitation for statehood or independence ended

false

With very few exceptions, in the period from 1870 to 1910 women were prohibited from working in factories

false

Worker frustration with the problems of monopoly led to the formation of the Socialist Labor Party, which became a major force in the 19th century politics even though it never elected a President

false

In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed? Answer Selected Answer:

none

Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century? Answer Selected Answer:

political party organizations

The 1897 Dingley Tariff: Answer Selected Answer:

raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.

During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole: Answer Selected Answer:

sank deeper and deeper into poverty.

The Redeemers in the South: Answer Selected Answer:

slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.

What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers? Answer Selected Answer:

the American Federation of Labor

The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was: Answer Selected Answer:

the Farmers Alliance.

What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China? Answer Selected Answer:

the Open Door policy

What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished? Answer Selected Answer:

the Philippine War

The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was: Answer Selected Answer:

the Readjuster movement.

"The splendid little war" of 1898 was: Answer Selected Answer:

the Spanish-American War.

In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives: Answer Selected Answer:

the battleship Maine

1/5 of the gold seekers who went to California in 1849 died within six months

true

As a result of the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state

true

As president, Woodrow Wilson succeeded in getting Congress to pass general lowering of the nations's tariffs rates

true

Black volunteers were accepted for service in the Spanish-American War and black regiments were used in the American invasion force

true

By offering to meditate a major coal strike, Roosevelt moved toward taking the federal government away from an antilabor stance toward a more natural approach

true

Congress never passed the Wilmot Proviso

true

Due to the overbuilding the pre-Civil War era, the number of miles of railroad track in the U.S. actually declined from 1860 to 1900

true

George Dewey led the American naval force that captured Manila Bay

true

In the mining frontier of the Far West, Hispanics and Chinese often did menial labor

true

John D. Rockefeller began building Standard Oil by concentrating on the refining stage of the petroleum industry

true

Many immigrants came to the U.S. intending to work for a few years to earn some money and then return to their home country

true

Most European immigrants who came to the U.S. up to the 1880s arrives from northern Europe and the British Isles (Germany, England, Ireland, etc.) but by the 1900 southern and eastern Europeans (Italians, Poles, Russians, Greeks, Slavs, etc.) dominated

true

The "Gospel of Wealth" referred to the idea that the rich had a responsibility to use their money to promote social progress

true

The Pottawatomie Massacre was part of the conflict between proslavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas

true

The Progressive Party of 1912 was nicknamed the "Bull Moose" party

true

The Republican Party was created in 1854 by the merging of several anti-slavery groups

true

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was Harriet Beecher Stowe

true

The conservation movement was somewhat internally divided between naturalists who stressed the preservation of natural spaces and those who stressed managed exploitation of those resources

true

The holding company came to be more popular for big business than the formal trust because it allowed actual corporate mergers

true

The principle use of petroleum in the late 19th century was oil for lubrication of machines rather than fuel

true

Theodore Roosevelt became the president as a result of the assassination of William McKinley

true

Through his execution, John Brown became a martyr for the anti-slavery party

true

U.S. contact with Hawaii began well before the Civil War

true

Woodrow Wilson's so-called New Freedom program called more effort to break up big business combinations than Roosevelt's New Nationalism did

true

in 1857, Kansas had only about 200 saves, and most people there were anti-slavery

true

Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists? Answer Selected Answer:

using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause