APUSH Chapter 17
Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:
Argued in favor of the gold standard.
In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association:
Argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant foreign vote."
The Platt Amendment:
Authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.
Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?
Blacks People.
Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?
Booker T. Washington
Who fully supported Plessy v. Ferguson?
Booker T. Washington.
The new immigrants of the Gilded Age:
Came from southern and eastern Europe.
the immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from:
China.
The 1894 Pullman Strike:
Collapsed when union leaders were jailed
All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT:
Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance.
What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases?
Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:
Held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.
Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?
Higher tariffs.
In the South, the Redeemers:
Imposed a new racial order.
Which of the following stated that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories recently acquired by the United States?
Insular Cases.
Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE?
It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform.
What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?
It helped southern whites cope with defeat but preserve white supremacy.
Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor?
It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.
Who was the leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief?
Jacob Coxey
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson
Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African Americans migrated to:
Kansas.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):
Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's suffrage.
What landmark US Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?
Public schools.
What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers stuck in 1894?
Pullman
Between 1890 & 1906, southern state governments and white Southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT:
Racial tests.
The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves:
Redeemers.
The silver issue:
Refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money.
The nation's urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because:
Republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:
Ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional
Twenty years after the end of Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South:
Suffered the most from the region's poor conditions.
The Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruled that:
The Fourteenth Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship.
In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:
Encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.
The People's Party:
Evolved out of the Farmers' Alliance.
What 1893 US Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?
Fong Yue Ting
The 1892 presidential election was won by:
Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.
Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists?
excessive power of the labor unions
During the "Age of Empire," American racial attitudes:
had a global impact.
The severe depression of 1893:
led to increased conflict between capitol and labor.
In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed?
none
Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century?
political party organizations
The 1897 Dingley Tariff:
raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.
William Jennings Bryan:
ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.
Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:
restricted membership to only skilled workers.
Plessy v. Ferguson:
sanctioned racial segregation.
During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole:
sank deeper and deeper into poverty.
The Redeemers in the South:
slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.
The Farmers' Alliance:
sought to improve conditions through cooperatives.
What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers?
the American Federation of Labor
The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was:
the Farmers Alliance.
Which was the largest citizens; movement of the nineteenth century?
the Farmers' Alliance
What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?
the Open Door policy
What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?
the Philippine War
What was lasted from 1899-1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?
the Philippine War
The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was:
the Readjuster movement.
What was known as the "splendid little war" of 1898?
the Spanish-American War
In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives?
the battleship Maine
Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists?
using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause.
The Immigration Restriction League:
wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate.
American territorial expansionism:
was a feature of American life since well before independence.
The Philippine War:
was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.
The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except:
a decentralization over the control of currency.
Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion?
a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures.
Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South?
a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone
The "subtreasury plan" was:
a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.
Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?
a religious test
The American Federation of Labor's founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of "freedom of contract" to:
argue against interference by judges with workers' right to organize unions.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:
was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.
Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:
yellow journalists.
The Philippine War: a) resulted in Filipino independence. b) was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War. c) was little debated at the time. d) was part of the American effort to liberate the Philippines. e) is well remembered today.
b) was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.
Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:
believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad.
The Spanish-American War: a) lasted several years. b) was a victory for Spain. c) brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control. d) resulted in thousands of U.S. combat deaths. e) ended American expansionism.
c) brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control
The Populist platform:
called for public ownership of railroads.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization:
calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.
The "white man's burden":
comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly:
5,000.
At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching:
Was an act of violence directed mostly at black men.
In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the Philippines:
Was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the Filipinos.
After the 1890s, American expansionism:
Was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports.
By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:
Were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists.
Which statement about the South after 1890 is FALSE?
Whites feared that northerners and the federal government would abolish the Jim Crow laws.
Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?
William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard.
A leading opponent of American imperialism was:
William Jennings Bryan.
The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was:
William Jennings Bryan.
Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:
Women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.
All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT:
Outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes
Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?
The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.
President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:
The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy.
The Teller Amendment stated that:
The United States would not annex Cuba.
In 1900, most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in:
The garment industry and as domestic laborers.
Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?
The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties.
Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?
Theodore Roosevelt
How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?
To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.
