APUSH CHAPTER 22-26 TEST
In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women became
much more common
The move to cities led to what major and enduring change in American lifestyles?
new ways of living; goods came in throwaway bottles and packages, apartment houses had not adjoining backyards, cheap ready to wear clothing was always available, waste disposal became an issue; criminals flourished and sanitary factories could not keep up
The Credit Mobilier scandal involved
railroad construction kickbacks
The success of the public schools in the post-Civil War era is best evidenced by
the decline of the popularity of parochial and religiously affiliated schools among the New Immigrants.
Horatio Alger
Writer of novels stressing rags to riches stories of boys
Lewis Wallace
Wrote Ben Hur, against Darwinism
Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment because _________ and despite ________
A citizen right to vote was denied / having worked wholeheartedly for the cause of emancipation
In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed
A law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America
A- The Dawes Act, B-Oklahoma land rush, C-Indians granted full citizenship, D-Congress restores the tribal basis of Indian life.
A,B,C,D
The wild frontier towns where the three major cattle trials from Texas ended were
Abilene, kansas; ogalalla, nebraska; and cheyanne, wyoming
In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland
All choices will be correct
J.P. Morgan
Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel. Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI and was payed back. Was one of the "Robber barons"
Andrew Carnegie
Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL
The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender and end their resistance to losing their lands
By the virtual extermination of the buffalo
A new round of warfare between Sioux and U.S Army began in 1874 when
Colonel George Cluster discovered gold on Sioux land in the black hills
To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following
Dissolved many tribes into legal entities, Tried to make rugged individualist of the Indians, Wiped out tribal ownership of lands, Promised Indian citizenship in 25 years
John D. Rockefeller
Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
What were common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?
Forcing
The Nez Perce indians of idaho were goaded into war when
Gold was discovered on their reservation
Benjamin Harrison's victory over Grover Cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that
Harrison lost the popular vote
What were the conditions for workers in the textile mills of the industrializing south?
Horrible
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were designed to
Intimidate African Americans to accept second class status
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was..
Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.
Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
Pools
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction aimed to
Punish confederate leaders
In post-Civil War America, Plains indians surrendered their lands only when they
Received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies
The Indians battled whites for all the following reasons BESIDES
Rescue their women who had been exiled to oklahoma
What were the various ways southern black responded to the prospect of emancipation?
Search for long-lost family members worked in towns and cities. Church became the focus of black communities; tested their freedom, search for family members and seek economic opportunity
Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with with the 14th and 15th Amendments because they
Specified the constitution that only males could vote
The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated the typical lacks of
The Gilded Age
William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on
The two sets of different election returns
I'm the Presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to
The votes of former slaves
The Presidential election of the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by
Turnouts among voters
America's first billion-dollar corporation was
United States Steel
During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except
Voting
Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley actively
actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws and child labor laws.
The intellectual developments that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the
biology of Charles Darwin
The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his
dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act.
The 19th-century humanitarians whp advocated kind treatment of the indians, had no respect for
for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them
One of the major reasons the Knights of Labor failed was
lack of class-conciousness
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to
take a competitive examination
An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of
the Populists adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers
Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, Romona, was centered around
the cruel mistreatment of the Indians
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877.
One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was
the rise of large department store .
Leftist scholars who found fault with the Post-Civil War era captains of industry mostly argued that..
these men built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers
Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came
to find work in industry and agriculture..etc.