AMERICAN HISTORY SINCE 1877 CHAPTER 17
Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?
Blacks
Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?
The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties
How are federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?
To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners
The American Federation of Labor's founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of "freedom of contract" to:
argue against interference by judges with workers' right to organize unions
The Platt Amendment:
authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba
Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:
believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad
The Populist platform:
called for public ownership of railroads
The new immigrants:
came from southern and eastern Europe
The "white man's burden":
comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling
During the "Age of Empire," American racial attitudes:
had a global impact
Which was NOT part of the Populist platform:
higher tariffs
The severe depression of 1893:
led to increased conflict between capitol and labor
William Jennings Bryan,
ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform
Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:
restricted membership to only skilled workers
In Plessy versus Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:
ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional
Plessy versus Ferguson:
sanctioned racial segregation
The Farmer's Alliance:
sought to improve conditions through cooperatives
Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
The Immigration Restriction League:
wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate
American territorial expansionism,
was a feature of American life since well before independence
The Phillipine War:
was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American war
In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the Phillipines:
was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the Filipinos
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:
was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States
Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:
yellow journalists
All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT:
Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance