Take Home Test

In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional

After the Civil War, some businesspeople and newspaper editors - such as the Atlanta Constitution's Henry Grady - promoted the idea of a New South. Which of the following best describes their vision for the southern states?

A mixed economy no longer primarily dependent on cash crops

Which of the following was a result of the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887?

American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land through fraud and coercion.

The organizational technique of vertical integration of all facets of an industry, from raw material to final product, within a single company was pioneered by

Andrew Carnegie with the steel industry.

In which pair is the first event an immediate cause of the second?

Assassination of James Garfield in 1881 - the Pendleton Civil Service Act

During the late nineteenth century, politicians such as Boss Tweed most likely would have opposed which of the following?

Calls for reforms to local and state governments

Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?

Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system

Which of the following is one important continuity in urban life in the United States throughout the nineteenth century?

Immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce.

Members of which of the following groups were most likely to support the Populist Party?

Midwestern farmers

Which of the following is a correct statement about immigration in the 1890s?

Most of the immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe

Which of the following activities from the middle of the 19th century most closely resembles the Progressive Era reform movement?

Participation by women in moral reform efforts

Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa, and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?

Restrictive congressional legislation

Settlement house work had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods?

The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

Which of the following most directly supports Civil War historian David Blight's argument that "the sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war...could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage."

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Which of the following most directly led to the rise of industrial capitalism in the Gilded Age?

The economic hardship resulting from years of civil war in the United States

Which of the following was NOT part of the Populist Party's platform?

a graduated income tax

Which of the following statements about railroad expansion in the second half of the 19th century is NOT true?

construction was privately financed with no governmental assistance

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

All of the following were important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion EXCEPT

federal government support of business.

John D. Rockefeller's organizational technique of horizontal integration involved

forcing small competitors to be bought out or lose their business.

Settlement houses, such as Hull House, engaged in all of the following activities EXCEPT

homeless shelters for new immigrants.

Between 1870 and 1900, farmers did all of the following in an attempt to better their condition EXCEPT

limit production of crops

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

Which of the following two industries were most significantly expanded as a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad?

mining and agriculture

All of the following factors contributed to the ultimate surrender of the Plains Indians by the 1880s EXCEPT the

onset of World War I

The "Atlanta Compromise" is the name given to the

proposal that African Americans emphasize making economic progress over the quest for political and social equality

Although corrupt, New York's Tammany Hall appealed to

recent immigrants and job seekers

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

relied on the use of power-driven machinery and specialization of labor

The "New Immigrants" who came to the United States after 1880

represented nonwhite racial groups.

Unlike Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois advocated

that African Americans should fight for full social equality rather than accept abuse and segregation

The farmers' protest movement lost momentum at the end of the 1890's for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the absorption of the populists by the American Federation of Labor

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." This quote is representative of

the bimetalism position of the 1890s

A major problem faced by farmers on the Great Plains in the Gilded Age was

the low market value of grain and falling crop prices.

The issue of patronage was LEAST involved in which of the following?

the nomination of James B. Weaver as a Populist candidate

Believers in the doctrine of Social Darwinism, like Herbert Spencer, believed that

the wealthy deserved their riches because they had demonstrated greater abilities than the poor.

The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in

the white South and big-city immigrant machines.

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.

In the election of 1896, the major issue became

upholding the gold standard vs. the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

The Haymarket Square riot...

weakened the national labor movement, especially the Knights of Labor