History Test 5
By the end of the nineteenth century, what percentage of whites in the South were not able to read?
11
Laws that disenfranchised blacks and circumvented which Constitutional Amendment?
14th
According to the lesson, approximately how many black Southerners were killed by lynch mobs between 1892 and 1903?
2,000
Between 1865 and 1897, the national railway network grew from 35,000 to almost _________ miles of track.
200,000
About what percentage of American cowboys were African Americans?
25%
According to the lesson, approximately how many African-Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?
300,000
According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?
84
According to the lesson, which of the following was NOT a significant source of new workers in the American economy during the Gilded Age?
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Who were the primary targets of the KKK in the South during Reconstruction? [Please choose all that apply.]
African Americas White Republicans
Which of the following individual is famous for inventing the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Which of the following eventually became the nation's largest labor union, reaching its peak at four million members in 1920?
American Federation of Labor
Which of the following best describes most American's attitude concerning political parties during the Gilded Age?
Americans were extremely loyal to their party
Which of the following individuals called himself a "distributor" of wealth, believing that he had a duty to give back to those who had helped him acquire his riches?
Andrew Carnegie
Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Which of the following Southern cities became the largest producer of coal and steel in the South?
Birmingham, Alabama
Which of the following Southern cities became the largest producer of coal and steel in the south
Birmingham, Alabama
Who became the champion of a position known as the Atlanta Compromise?
Booker T Washington
Which of the following was the greatest contributing factor in the defeat of William Jennings Bryan in the election of 1896
Bryan failed to appeal to immigrants and working poor in the Midwest.
Which of the following modern-day states experienced mining booms after the discovery of silver or gold? [Please choose all that apply.]
California Colorado Idaho
Grover ______________, the nominee of the Democrat Party, won the election of 1892, though Populists gained a significant portion of the popular vote.
Cleveland
In the 1870s Democrats in the south recognized the party platform as a _________ movement
Conservative
Although Samuel Tilden received that majority of the popular vote and seemed ahead un the electoral college what created controversy regarding the outcome of the election
Contested Electoral votes from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following U.S. Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?
Department of Justice
Which of the following best describes the campaign of William Jennings Bryan in he election of 1896
Energetic and active
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Civil Service Commission, established in 1883?
Ensure that all federal jobs be appointed by a merit system.
Which of the following individuals became the leader of the American Socialist Party in 1897 with support from the American Railway Union?
Eugene V. Debs
Which of the following religious groups tended to identify with Republicans during the Gilded Age?
Evangelicals
Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?
Germany
Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?
Government generally fir not interfere with business
Which of the following was the only Democratic Party candidate to win the Presidency between 1869 and 1914?
Grover Cleveland
The violent ______ Affair in Chicago led to the demise of the __________ of Labor, a powerful national labor union.
Haymarket Knights
Which of the following best describes President Vlevelands response to labor strikes in his second term
He opposed them sometimes with force
Which of the following best describes T McCants Stewart's experience as an African American visiting the south in the 1880s
He was surprised to find relative acceptance and freedom
Which of the following best describes T. McCants Stewart's experience as an African American visiting the South in the 1880s?
He was surprised to find relative acceptance and freedom
Which of the following U.S. cities was first founded as a mining boom town?
Helena, Montana
Which of the following individuals was the manager of the Homestead Works during the Homestead Strike and nearly lost his life in an assassination attempt?
Henry Clay Frick
Which of the following was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who wrote an article detailing his vision for "The New South?"
Henry W Grady
Which of the following was the editor of the Atlanta constitution who wrote an article detailing his vision for the New South
Henry W. Grady
Which of the following best describes what Western miners and farmers called the "Crime of '73?"
In 1873 Republicans in congress stopped the production of silver coins
Which of the following best describes what Western miners and farmers called the "Crime of '73?"
In 1873, Republicans in Congress stopped the production of silver coins.
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, which President Hayes attempted but failed to block with his veto?
Increased the money supply by minting more silver coins
Which of the following was NOT one of the provisions of the Enforcement Acts passed in response to the rise of the KKK?
It became a federal offense to interfere with a citizens right to life Liberty and property
Which of the following individuals gained significant profits from Clevelands decision to allow the treasury to borrow money from Wall Street investment banks
JP Morgan
Which of the following built the American Tobacco Company, which came to control 75 percent of all tobacco manufacturing by 1904?
James B Duke
Which of the following built the American tobacco company which came to control 75% of all tobacco manufacturing by 1940
James B Duke
Which of the following individuals became the People's Party nominee for President in the Election of 1892?
James B Weaver
Which of the following individuals became the People's Party nominee for President in the Election of 1892?
James B. Weaver
Charles Guiteau, a mentally deranged man disgruntled over having been refused a Federal job, assassinated which of the following US. Presidents?
James Garfield
Which of the following led the Republican "Half-Breeds" and was the Republican nominee for President in 1884?
James Gillespie Blaine
Laws that discriminated against blacks in the South became known as _______ ________ laws after the name of a derogatory black character in a famous minstrel show.
Jim Crow
Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age?
John D. Rockefeller
The most important and influential secret society that arose in the South to oppose Radical Reconstruction was
Ku Klux Klan
The market for beef in the early nineteenth century was underwhelming, but Texans still maintained cattle ranches for _________ and ________ , animal fat used in the production of candles and soap.
Leather Tallow
According to the lesson, Thomas Edison's most important invention was the __________________.
Lightbulb
The notion that belligerent Northerners had wrecked the dream of Southern prosperity became known as the "_________ Cause" in the South.
Lost
Which of the following individuals coined the term "Gilded Age?"
Mark Twain
Into which state did President Grant refuse to send federal troops to restore order after race riots began in 1875, thus marking the end of the military component of Reconstruction?
Mississippi
Thomas Edison's invention of the electric ___________________ was particularly useful in industrial settings, because if freed factories from reliance on rivers or coal to supply energy, allowing them to be located almost anywhere.
Motor
Which of the following was the first labor union engaged on a national scale made up of representatives from several craft unions?
National Labor Union
Which of the following individuals founded the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867, which later spawned the Granger Movement?
Oliver H. Kelley
What event in 1873 shifted the focus of the Republicans to economic matters and created a depression that asked for 6 years
Panic of 1873
What event in 1873 shifted the focus of the Republicans to economic matters and created a depression that lasted for six years?
Panic of 1873
According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?
Pennsylvania
Which 1886 Supreme Court case upheld segregation laws in the South, provided that all accommodations for blacks and whites were "separate, but equal"?
Please v Ferguson
In 1887, during Grover Cleveland's first term, Congress passed legislation to create the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was tasked with regulating the ___________ freight prices.
Railroad
According to the lesson, which of the following industries was the first to produce modern corporations?
Railroads
Supporters of the ruling class of lawyers, merchants, businessmen, and planters in the South called them _________while their detractors referred to them as __________ .
Redeemers Bourbons
In the Election of 1876, both the Republicans and Democrats favored _______________________________.
Relaxing radical reconstruction policed and a return of state rile on the south
Most African Americans in the South identified with the ______________ Party after the Civil War.
Republican
Which of the following Presidents campaigned on a promise to fight corruption after Grant's scandal-filled term in office?
Rutherford B Hayes
Which of the following is true of the Compromise of 1877? [Please choose all that apply.]
Rutherford B Hayes became President An agreement was made to pull military support out of the south It signaled the end of reconstruction as Republican governments collapsed adn white Democrats gained control of the south
Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1886 to 1924?
Samuel Gompers
Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the "Granger laws," established by members of the Granger Movement after 1874?
Set maximum prices for transporting and storing farmers' produce
Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the "Granger laws," established by members of the Granger Movement after 1874?
Set maximum prices fro transporting and storing farmers produce
_________________ was an agricultural system whereby a farm laborer worked someone else's land in return for supplies and a portion of the crop he produced.
Sharecropping
Massive migration to cities saw the rise of densely populated sections of those cities called _________, where disease and poverty were rampant.
Slums
Between 1860 and 1920, the United States accepted 28 million immigrants. Most of these immigrants came from which of the following parts of the world?
Southern and Eastern Europe
What was the name of Boss Tweed's political institution that dominated politics in New York City?
Tammany Hall
What was the name of multifamily dwellings in many American cities that were usually between four and six stories high and housed dozens of families?
Tenements
Laws that disenfranchised blacks and circumvented which constitutional amendment
The 14th
Eugene V. Debs, who played a key role in the Pullman Strike, led which of the following labor unions?
The American railway union
What was the main persuasive goal of the Cross of Gold Speech
The Federal government should allow the unlimited coinage of silver.
Which of the following labor unions had a radical, utopian vision of an economic system based on cooperation rather than competition? The National Labor Union
The Knights of Labor
Which of the following united in 1889 to form the new National Alliance, which eventually led to the establishment of the People's Party in 1892? [Choose all that apply.]
The Northern Farmers Alliance The Southern Farmers Alliance
Which of the following incidents set off a nationwide panic that lead to the Depression of 1893
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroads declared bankruptcy
According to the lesson, which of the following was NOT caused by the expansion of railroad networks?
Train equipment remained unstandardized
What was the name of the Supreme Court case which severely weakened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and helped protect monopolies
United States v E.C. knight Company
What was the name given to Mexican cowboys during the time of the cattle drives?
Vaqueros
Who became the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard College and later founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
W.E.B Dubois
According to the lesson the Depression of 1893 brought the most harm to which of the following groups
Western Farmers
In the midterm election the peoples party lost much of its support from which of the following groups to the influence of the Democratic Party
White southerners
In the midterm election, the People's Party lost much of its support from which of the following groups to the influence of the Democratic Party?
White southerners
Which of the following individuals did the populists nominate for president in the election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan
Which of the following individuals created a powerful political machine in New York City and was known for using corrupt police to maintain control?
William Tweed
In the Election of 1880, the Democratic Party nominated this former Union general, hoping his nomination would distance themselves from secessionism and the Confederacy?
Winfield Scott Hancock
Which of the following best describes the predominant social make-up of most boom towns?
Young, single men
Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
a 10-percent pay cut among many rail company workers
Which of the following best describes a holding company?
a company that holds a significant amount of stock in several other companies within the same industry, which it is then able to control
According to the lesson, which of the following was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?
a growing population and the availability of cheap labor
Before the discovery of bright-leaf tobacco, most people smoked tobacco in pipes, but the new strain of tobacco was suitable for ______________, which became a boom for the tobacco industry in the upper South.
cigarettes
Although Samuel Tilden received the majority of the popular vote and seemed ahead in the Electoral College, what created controversy regarding the outcome of the election?
contested Electoral votes from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana
_________________ became a major concern in the South as the timber industry grew, but a warm climate helped limit the ecological devastation the industry may have caused.
deforestation
Political machines in Northeastern cities were more closely associated with the _______________ Party.
democratic
According to the lesson, the push and pull factors that led many Americans to migrate to cities were primarily ____________ in nature.
economic
Which of the following best describes the management structure of most big businesses during the Gilded Age?
heirarchical
What was the name of the mining technique that used high pressure water cannons to break away hillsides and reveal valuable minerals?
hydraulic mining
Political machines in Northeastern and Midwestern cities had the most influence with which of the following?
immigrants
Which of the following best describes the provisions of the contract labor act of 1864
it allowed the Federal government to pay for an immigrant's passage to the United States
Which of the following best describes the provisions of the Contract Labor Act of 1864?
it allowed the private business to pay for an immigrant's passage to the United States
For most of the nineteenth century, oil was mainly used to produce which of the following important commodities?
kerosene
According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the results of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
massive failure
___________ taxes limited the voting rights of black Southerners by requiring citizens to pay a fee in order to vote.
poll
Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingman's Party of California?
restrict Chinese immigration
Which of the following issues became the main focus of the Election of 1888?
tariff reform
Between 1880 and 1900, the South surpassed New England as the largest producer in which of the following industries?
textiles
What organization came alongside Eugene V. Debs in the Pullman Strike?
the American railways union
On May 1, 1866, the Knights of Labor organized a one-day general strike of 340,000 workers that eventually led to the Haymarket Affair. What was the goal of that strike?
the establishment of an eight-hour workday
The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.
time
Which of the following remained one of the most important crops in Virginia and the upper South after the Civil War?
tobacco
Which of the following remained one of the most important crops in Virginia and the upper South after the civil war
tobacco
According to the lesson, which of the following best describes a stock?
units that represent part ownership of a company sold in order to raise revenue
Which of the following is true of most American workers' wages between 1860 and 1890?
wages generally rose
