AP US HISTORY

Union Workers

The preticipating factir in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's dismissal of _____ _____

Silver

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech was primarily an expression of his advocacy of the free and unlimited coinage of _____

Social Garwinism

"Competition is a law of nature.....and can no more be done away with than gravitation.....[1} few do not like survival of the fittest, we have only one possible alternative, survival of the unfittest. The former is the law of civilization, the latter is the law of anticiilization. "The quote above is an example of which school of thought?

American Federation; Labor

The _____ _____ of _____ split apart at its national convention in 1935 because a majority of AFL leaders refused to grant charters to new unions organized on an industry wide basis

William Jennings Bryans

A Kansas farmer would have been most likely to support the presidential campaign of _____ in 1896?

1 Businesses Has Control Of All Companies In Particular Industry

A monopoly is what?

Horizontal Integration

The _____ _____ one firm acquiring control of another firm that produces the same product of American industry that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century was primarily a response to economic competition

Interstate Commerce Commission

The first Federal Agency established to regulate business was the what?

Chinese Exclusion Act

The first federal law to restrict immigration, passed in 1882, was aimed at who?

Coxey

During the Depression of 1893, which Populist leader led a march of poor workers on Washington, D.C. to demand that Congress create a work program to address massive unemployment?

Pollman Strike

Eugene V. Debs was associated with what strike?

Charity

In his "Gospel of Wealth", Andrew Carnegie articulated the view that the wealthy were morally obligated to use some of their wealth for what?

Used Roothless Methods

In the late 1800s, some wealthy industrialists were described was "robber barons" because they did what?

Votes

In the late 19th century, political machines such as Tammany Hall were successful primarily because they provided needed jobs and services to naturalized citizens in return for their _____

Limit Railroads

One of the primary goals of Grange members during the late 19th century was to what?

Collective Bargaining

Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) proposed that unions should negotiate for all workers; this concept is known as what?

Populist

Supporters of the gold standard would not have been associated with what party?

Federation; Labor

The American _____ of _____ became the first long-lasting, successful labor union in the United States mainly because it fought for the rights of skilled and unskilled workers

Strikes

The American labor movement in the late 19th century was involved with a number of violent and non-violent _____ to promote change

Election Of Senators

The Seventeenth Amendment provided for what?

Gilden & Industrial

The rise of the Populist Movement, a rapid rise in urbanization, an influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, and a growing conflict between labor and management, punctuated by numerous strikes were all part of what age?

Boss Tweed

Thomas Nast's political cartoons most frequently (and famously) targeted who?

Cities Expand, Businesses

What effect did Thomas Edison's work have on the 19th century?

Wounded Knee

What of the following ended with a massacre of three hundred unarmed Sioux and officially ended the wars between Plains tribes and the U.S. government?

Disrupting Mail Service

What reason did President Cleveland give for sending troops into Chicago during the Pullman Strike of 1894?

Americanize Native Americans

What was the intended result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?

Gilden Age

When did Southern and Eastern European immigrants enter the country in larger numbers than Northern and Western

William Jennings Bryan

Which Populist joined the Democratic Party and unsuccessfully ran for president against William McKinley in 1896?

American Federation of Labor

Which labor organizations endoresed the philosophy of "bread and butter" unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions

Hayes

Which president was the first to use troops to quell a strike?

Railroads Price

Which was the MOST important cause of agrarian discontent in the last quarter of the 19th century?

Railroads

_____ in the late nineteenth century opened new territories to agriculture, accelerated the growth of old cities and created new ones, was financed by private corporations, received government assistance, led to new managerial forms and techniques and often overproduced and caused many companies to go bankrupt