Edwards APUSH Chapter 17 Quiz

The election of 1896:

a. is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign because of the level of fundraising done by both parties

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:

a. ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional.

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

b. To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

Booker T. Washington:

b. encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation and abandon the push for civil rights.

In the "Insular Cases," the Supreme Court:

b. held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

b. public schools

William Jennings Bryan:

b. ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:

b. restricted membership to only skilled workers.

At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching:

b. was an act of political violence directed mostly at black men.

The Philippine War:

b. was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

b. was fueled in part by the need to stimulate American exports.

By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:

b. were forced out of politics and passed leadership to African-American women activists such as those in the National Association of Colored Women.

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

c. argued in favor of the gold standard.

The Spanish-American War:

c. brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

The Populist platform:

c. called for government control of business.

The new immigrants:

c. came from southern and eastern Europe.

The silver issue:

c. refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money.

Beginning in the 1890s, the women's era was so called because:

c. women's economic opportunities increased as did their role in public life.

The Platt Amendment:

d. authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

e. The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.

All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT:

e. outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:

e. the United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy.

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:

e. the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

The severe depression of 1893:

e. was marked by high and long-term unemployment, exemplified by Coxey's Army.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

e. was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.