APUSH 16 & 17
The cry used to rally Americans against Spain
"Remember the Maine"
The new social order of the Gilded Age:
A and B -Prompted public discussion of class differences and debate among workingmen and farmers over political economy -Ensured ongoing labor strife and deepening distrust between employees and employ
US Naval Officer who wrote The Influence of Seapower upon history and advocated for the buildup of the US Navy
Alfred Theyer Mayhan
The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT:
An era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally
Dominated the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:
Argued in favor of the gold standard.
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.
African Americans that mainly served on the Western frontier and courageously served in the Spanish American War
Buffalo Soldiers
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:
Built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets
Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate?
By 1880, three-fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms
William Jennings Bryan:
Called for the unrestricted mining of silver.
An economic system where businesses are privately owned
Capitalism
1882 legislation that prohibited the emigration of Chinese to the US
Chinese Exclusion Act
Which of the following was the reason for U.S, control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
Control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval and commercial power.
Made his fortune and railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The group that was led by Jacob Coxey because of the Panic of 1893
Coxey's Army
The Civil Service Act of 1883:
Created a merit system for government workers
Filipino revolutionary and rebel who first aided the US in the Spanish American War and later turned on the US to fight in the Philippine War
Emilio Aguinaldo
In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:
Encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.
The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to:
Ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates
The Grange was an organization that:
Established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output
The nineteenth-century labor movement argued that:
Extremes of wealth and poverty threatened democracy
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:
Focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums
The question in Plessy v. Ferguson was largely based on the rights granted in the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Argued the existence of the frontier had given America a unique history
Frederick Jackson Turner
One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was:
Frequent and prolonged economic depressions
Controlled many aspects of his workers lives; his workers went on strike when he lowered their wages but refused to lower their rent
George Pullman
A time when some corporate leaders amassed staggering fortunes
Gilded Age
Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?
He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes
Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?
Higher tariffs.
Buying up all like companies in order to eliminate the competition
Horizontal Integration
The practice of extending a nation's power over other lands or colonies
Imperialism
Thomas Edison:
Invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity
Made his fortune in oil
John D. Rockefeller
The S.o. State that proposed the Open Door Policy in China and called the Spanish American War a "splendid little war"
John Hay
Newspaper publisher of the New York World
Joseph Pulitzer
Reined of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 until he died in 1891
King Kalakaua
The founder and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii who united the Hawaiian Islands
King Kamehameha
All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
Low tariffs
Asserted the right of the US to act against an outside power in the Western hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT the United States:
Needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy.
Policy demanded by S.o.State John Hay hoping to protect the Chinese market for US exports and maintain a sphere of influence in China
Open Door Policy
In 1891, an amendment to the Cuban Constitution that allowed the US to intervene in Cuban affairs and gave the US Guantanamo Bay
Platt Amendment
1896 Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal" and legalized segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Political group that called for bank regulation, government ownership of railroads, and unlimited coinage of silver
Populist Party
A country under the control and protection of another country like the US was over Cuba
Protectorate
1893 Hawaiian monarch who was overthrown when a group of American businessmen and sugar planters forced the abdication; Congress apologized in 1893
Queen Liliuokalani
How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?
Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods
The most famous cavalry unit fighting in the Spanish American War under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Plessy v. Ferguson:
Sanctioned racial segregation.
Carnegie's idea that "those who can will help themselves" best describes the late nineteenth century idea of
Social Darwinism
A geographic area where an outside nation exerts economic or political influence like the US did in China
Sphere of Influence
In contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:
Territory
Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is FALSE?
The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket.
The second industrial revolution was marked by:
The acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries
The argument made by Bryan in the above excerpt represents the culmination of Gilded Age debates about which of the following issues?
The currency issue
Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:
The free and unlimited coinage of silver.
What conditions made profitable farming increasingly challenging during the Gilded Age?
The high rates railroads charged farmers to transport their crops
Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
The railroad strike signaled the nation's shift from southern reconstruction to the question of labor and class tensions
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white
The victim's alleged sexual conduct
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.
American statesmen, a great conservationist, and a naturalist; Secretary of the Navy; leader of the Rough Riders in the Battle of San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt
How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops?
They called for public ownership of the railroads.
The wizard of Menlo Park
Thomas Edison
The battleship that exploded in Havana Harbor, sparking Congress to declare war on Spain, leading to the Spanish American War
USS Maine
Buying up companies that contribute to the production of a product in order to control all aspects of a business
Vertical Integration
The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York:
Voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week
Studied the cause of malaria and yellow fever and discovered it was caused by mosquitoes
Walter Reed
The Immigration Restriction League:
Wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate.
The Knights of Labor:
Was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms
The Social Gospel:
Was another term for Social Darwinism.
The Philippine War:
Was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.
American expansionism after the 1890s:
Was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.
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.
Elections during the Gilded Age:
Were closely contested affairs
Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:
Were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration
An American orator and politician from Nebraska, ran unsuccessfully for president 3 times; gave famous Cross of Gold speech
William Jennings Bryan
25th President of the US; won the election of 1896 and was reelected in 1900; president during the Spanish American War and assassinated
William McKinley
Publisher of the New York Journal
William Randolph Hearst
Purchased Alaska and the Midway Islands
William Seward
By 1890, the majority of Americans:
Worked for wages
The last major Native American resistance in the West
Wounded Knee
Journalism that includes exaggeration of news events, scandals, and sensationalism
Yellow Journalism
Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which
Yellow journalists.
Described President McKinley as a weak man and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd; one of the reasons we went to war against Spain
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