APUSH 16,17,18

​In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers

saw newspaper circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population.

​In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

​In the late nineteenth century, the western agricultural economy

saw the railroad become the most important factor in its development.

​According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

scientific inquiry.

Chinese tongs were

secret societies.

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

silver

Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, dealt with the urban troubles of

single women.

n the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers which did not exist.

Which of the following was NOT a significant source of resentment for the late nineteenth-century farmers?

state governments

​In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to

stop immigrants from entering the United States.

The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by

the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

the Yurok

In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT

the automobile industry.

The Dawes Act of 1887

was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians.

The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was

wealthy residents.

At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium.

​In the late nineteenth century, "Range wars" in the West were between

white American ranchers and farmers.

In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was

​$290.

During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by

​All the answers are correct.

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

​Europe.

In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

​Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

​banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

​In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from

​barbed wire.

The nineteenth-century game of "rounders" became the modern sport of

​baseball.

Compared with the first generation, second generation immigrants were more likely to

​break from their traditional culture.

In the 1880s, the open range cattle industry declined as a result of

​drought.

​In the late nineteenth century, most immigrants to the United States

​formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities

​In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry?

​fur trading

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

​had expanded significantly.

​The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan School"

​included the painter Edward Hopper.

Tenement buildings in urban America were

​initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.

​In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories,

​laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.

One significant innovation of urban America in the late nineteenth century was

​large public parks.

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

​led to a diversification of research interests.

William Cody's Wild West shows

​proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States.

​In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America

​saw charitable organizations try to limit aid to those deemed "deserving poor."

The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from

​southern and eastern Europe.

The national network of grocery stores that opened in the 1870s was

​the A&P.

​Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

​the Pullman strike

In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

​the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians.

During the late nineteenth century, all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods EXCEPT

​the formation of credit card companies

In the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by

​the moderately well-to-do people.

​A key to Henry Ford's success in mass production of automobiles was

​the use of interchangeable parts.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

​they had poor individual character.

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

often found work doing domestic tasks.

In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"

was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.

In 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the United States

was constructed with steel girders.

The Homestead Act of 1862

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.

By the mid-1840s, the American West

was extensively populated.

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut.

By 1890, the percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit that were made up of immigrants was approximately

80 percent.

The town which reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was

Abilene, Kansas

Who among the following developed the first telephone with commercial capacity?

Alexander Graham Bell

​In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

All the answers are correct

By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included

All the answers are correct.

Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from

All the answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, compared to other immigrant ethnic groups, Jews

All the answers are correct.

The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century

All the answers are correct.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

All the answers are correct.

The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop

All the answers are correct.

​During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States

All the answers are correct.

​In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri

All the answers are correct.

​In the late nineteenth century, American universities

All the answers are correct.

​In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

All the answers are correct.

​In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

All the answers are correct.

​In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by

All the answers are correct.

​In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West

All the answers are correct.

​In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

All the answers are correct.

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

American Federation of Labor.

​By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had not been granted statehood was

Arizona.

All of the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT

Atlanta.

The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was

Chief Joseph.

In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their nationality were

Chinese.

Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West?

Creek

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.

​In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of

Geronimo.

During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from

Great Britain and northern Europe.

Which American thinker is LEAST associated with study using scientific methods?

Henry James

​In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was

Herbert Spencer.

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations.

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?

James J. Hill

​All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT

James Whistler.

Which American writer would be LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?

Mark Twain

​By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers

None of the answers are correct.

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Pennsylvania.

​In the 1870s, in the Far West the largest single Chinese community was located in

San Francisco.

Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?

Taos Indians, allied with Navajo and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.

At its height in 1886, the Knights of Labor were led by

Terence V. Powderly.

Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892?

The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.

Which of the following statements regarding Coney Island is FALSE?

The park developed a reputation for wholesome, family attractions.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.

​At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time

as being desirable.

​In the 1850s, the United States policy of "concentration" for Indians

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

​Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all.

The Knights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization.

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege.

The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.

In the late nineteenth century, in regards to western agriculture

commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so.

in the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater

consisted of a variety of stage acts.

In his books, Horatio Alger

criticized child labor in American industry.

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.

To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was

cutthroat competition.

​In the late nineteenth century, the leading cause of death in large American cities resulted from

disease.

The Haymarket Square Riot of 1886

esulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists

​In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was

far greater than the most crowded European cities.

​In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of

football.

​In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.

In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States

generally lacked the capital to buy farmland.

The "Rocky Mountain School" of painting

helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West.

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.

​In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

improve wages and working conditions of manufacturers and retailers.

Which statement regarding telephone service during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is FALSE?

in its first years, telephone operators were all men.

​During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life

often lacked any access to the outside world.

In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century

one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

organize industrial production into many simple tasks.

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities

included a new federal environmental regulatory agency.

During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States

increased significantly.

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864

involved the killing of Indian women and children.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

labor union in the coal industry.

During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

The open-hearth process of making steel

made the production of large dimension pieces possible.

In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States

mostly came from Europe.

​In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility.

​In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman.

​Mining in the west

produced the region's first economic boom.

The social theory of Social Darwinism

promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth.

​In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter.

Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law

put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

reduce the costs of city services.

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

referred to Chinese indentured servants.

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, incomes in the United States

rose for almost all Americans.

​In 1917, automobile production in the United States

saw five million cars on American roads.

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

the frontier had made Americans a distinctive people.

​In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were

the most widespread Indian groups in the West.

​In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to

the rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

By 1900, all of the following statements regarding American medicine were true EXCEPT

vaccines for typhoid and dysentery had been introduced.

The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

vertical integration.

Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as

wards of the president of the United States.

The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn

was a short-lived Indian victory.