apush chp 26 multiple choice

All of the following characteristics describe William Jennings Bryan in 1869 except a)he had a brilliant mind b)he was very youthful c)he was an energetic and charismatic campaigher d)he was an excellent orator e)he radiated honesty and sincerity

a

Farmerswere slow to organize and promote their interest because they a)were not well educated b)did not possess the money necessary to establish a national political movement c)were divided by the wealitheir, more powerful manufactureres and railroad barons d)were too busy trying to eke out a living e)were by nature highly independent and individualistic

a

Labor unions, Populists, and debtors saw in the brutal Pullman episode a)proof of an alliance between big business, the federal government, and the courts against working people b)a strategy by which united working-class action could succeed c)the need for a socialist party in the United States d)the potential of the federal government as a counterweight to big business e)the crucial role of middle class public opinion in labor conflicts

a

The 1896 victory of William McKinley ushered in a long period of Republican dominance that was accompanied by a)diminishing voter participation in elections b)strengthening of party organizations c)greater concern over civil-serice reform d)less concern for industrial regulation e)sharpenend conflict between business and labor

a

The 19th century humanitarians who advocated "kind" treatment of the Indians a)had no more respect for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them b)advocated allowing the Ghost Dance to continue c)opposed passage of the Dawes act d)understood the value of the Indians' religious and cultural practices e)advocated improving the reservation system

a

The Depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike made the election of 1896 shape up as a)a battle between down and out workers and farmers and establishment conservatives b)a conflict between the insurgent Populists and the two established political parties c)a sectional conflict with the West aligned against the Northeast and South d)a contest over the power of the federal government to manage a modern industrial economy like the United States e)a clash of cultures between ordinary middle-class Americans and European oriented radicals and reformers

a

The Indians battled withes for all the following reasons except a)rescue their familieswho had been exiled to Oklahoma b)avenge savage massacres of Indians by whites c)punish whites for breaking treaties d)defend their lands against white invaders e)preserve their nomadic way of life against forced settlement

a

The area of the country in which the federal government has done the most to aid economic and social development is a)the West b)the Midwest c)the South d)the Northeast e)Appalachia

a

The real "safety valve" in the late nineteenth century was a)the western cities b)the western frontier c)Canada d) Hawaii e)Texas

a

A Century of Dishonour, which chronicled the dismal history of Indian-white relations, was authored by a)Hariet Beecher Stowe b)Helen Hunt Jackson c)Chief Joseph d)Joseph F. Glidden e)William F. Cody

b

As a result of the complete defear of Captain William Fetterman's command in 1866 a)the government sent extensive military reinfocements to the Dakotas and Montana b)the government abandoned the Bozeman Trail and guaranteed the Sioux their lands c)the government adopted a policy of civilizing the Indians rather than trying to conquer them d)white settlers agreed to halt their expansion beyond the 100th meridian e)the conflict between the U.S. army and the Sioux came to a peaceful end

b

Match each Indian chief with his tribe A. Chief Joseph B. Sitting Bull C. Geronimo 1. Apache 2. Cheyenne 3. Nez Perce 4. Sioux a) A-1 B-2 C-3 b)A-3 B-4 C-1 c)A-2 B-4 C-1 d)A-4 B-3 C-2 e)A-1 B-3 C-4

b

One key to the Republican victory in the 1896 presidential election was the a)support of farmers b)huge amount of money raised by Mark Hanna c)use of the tariff issue d)wide travel and numberous speeches made by William McKinley e)ability of Republicans to disrupt the solid South

b

The Farmers' Alliance was especially weakened by a)political ineptitude b)the exclusion of black farmers c)corrupt leadership d)the failure to target landowners e)regional concentration in the South

b

The Homestead Act a)sold more land to bona fide farmers than to land promoters b)was a dreastic departure from previous governament public land policy designed to raise revenue c)was responsible for the sale of more land than any other agency d)managed to end the fraud that was common with other government land programs e)was criticized as a federal government giveaway

b

The Nez Perce Indians of Idaho were goaded into war when a) the Sioux sought their land b)gold was discovered on their reservation c)the federal government attempted to put them on a reservation d) the Canadian governament attempted to force their return to the United States e)their alliance with the Shoshones required it

b

The Populist Party arose as the direct successor to a)the Greenback Labor Party b)the Farmers' Alliance c)the Silver Miners' Coalition d)the Liberal Republican Party e)the Grange

b

The mining frontier played a vital role in a)bringing law and order to the West b)attracting the first substantial white population to the West c)enabling the government to go off the gold standard d)ensuring that the mining industry would remain in the hands of independent, small operations e)forcing the Indians off the Great Plains

b

Cities like Denver and San Fancisco did serve as a major "safety valve" by providing a)a home for new immigrants b)recreational activities for its inhabitants c)a home for failed farmers and busted miners d)none of the above e)all of the above

c

In 1890, when the superintendent of the census announced that a stable frontier line was no longer discernible, a)the Homestead Act was repealed b)little land remained for public sale c)Americans were disturbed that the free land of the West was gone d)there were no more isolated bodies of settlement e)all the western territories had been admitted as states

c

In a bid to win labor's support, the Populist Party a)supported restrictions on immigration b)nominated Samule Gompers for president c)opposed injunctions against labor strikes d)endorsed workmen's compensation laws e)proposed a law guaranteeing the right to organize and strike

c

In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the American military after the Civil War, the a)Indians were never as well armed as the soldiers b)the U.S. army was able to dominate with its superiour technology c)there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides d)Indians proved to be no match for the soldiers e)Indians and soldiers seldom came into face to face combat

c

Jacob Coxey and his "army" marche on Washington, D.C., to a)demand a larger military budget b)protest the repeal of the Sherman Siler Purchase Act c)demand that the government relieve unemployment with a public works program d)try to promote a general strike of all workers e) demand the immediate payment of bonuses to Civil War veterans

c

Match (Pullman strike) A.Richard Olney B.Eugene V. Debs C.George Pullman D. John P. Altgeld 1.Head of the American Railway union that organized the strike 2.Governor of Illinois who sympathized with the striking workers 3.United States attorney general who brought in fderal troops to crush the strike 4.Owner of the "palace railroad car" company and the company town where the strike began a) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3 b) A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4 c) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 d) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 e) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3

c

The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian a)prosperity b)annihilation c)assimilation d)culture e)educaton

c

The Democratic party nominee for president in 1896 was___; the Republicans nominated ____; and the Populists endorsed_____ a) William McKinley, Mark Hanna, William Jennings Bryan b) William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley, James B. Weaver c) William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan d) Mark Hanna, William Jennings Bryan, William Jennings Bryan e) William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan

c

The monetary inflation needed to relieve the social and economic hardships of the late nineteenth century eventually came as a result of a) the gold standard b)McKinley'sadoption of the bimetallic standard c)an increase in the international gold supply d)Populist fusion with the Democratic party e)the creation of the Federal Reserve Board

c

The strongest ally of Mark Hanna and the Republicans in the 1896 presidential election was a)the drop in wheat prices b)McKinley's vigorous campaigning c)fear of the alleged radicalism of William Jennings Bryan and his free silver cause d)the nearly unanimous support of the nation's trained economists e)the divisions in the Democratic Party

c

The bitter confilict between whites and Indians intensified a)during the Civil War b)as a result of vigilante justice c)when big business took over the mining industry d)as the mining frontier explanded e)after the Battle of Wounded Knee

d

The 1896 presidential election marked the last time that a)rural America would defeat urban America b)the South remained solid for the Democratic party c)a third party candidate had a serious chance at the White House d)factory workers would favor inflation e)a serious effort to win the White House would be made with mostly agrarian votes

e

In several states, farmers helped to pass the "Granger Laws", which a)raised tariffs b)lowered mortgage interest rates c)allowed them to form producer and consumer cooperatives d)prohibited bankruptcy auctions e)regulated railroad rates

e

In the decades after the Civil War, most American farmers a)became attached to their family farms b)diversified their crops c)became increasingly self-sufficient d)saw their numbers grow as more people moved west e)grew a single cash crop

e

In the election of 1896, the major issue became a)resoration of protective tariffs b)enactment of an income tax c)government programs for those unemployed as a result of the depression d)the rights of farmers and industrial workers e)free and unlimited coinage of silver

e

In the long run, the group that probably did the most to shape the modern West was the a)trappers b)miners c)railroad men d)cowboys e)hydraulic engineers

e

Mark Hanna, the Ohio Republican president-maker, believed that the prime function of the governament was to a)defend against foreign enemies b)maintain a laissez-faire policy c)not "rock the boat" of prosperity d)overturn the "trickledown" theory of economics e)aid business

e

President Grover Cleveland justified federal intervention in the Pullman strike of 1894 on the grounds that a)the union's leader, Eugene V. Debs, was a socialist b)strikes against railroads were illegal c)the strikers were engaging in violent attaks on railroad property d)shutting down the railroads threatned American national security d)the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail

e

The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender a)because they were decimated by their constant intertribal warfare b)when they realized that agricultural was more profitable than hunting c)after such famous leaders as Geronimo and Sitting Bull were killed d)when the army began using artillery against them e)by the coming of the railroadsand the virtual extermination of the buffalo

e

The buffalo were nearly exterminated a)as a result of being overhunted by the Indians b)when their grasslands were turned into wheat and corn fields c)when their meat became valued in eastern markets d)by disease e)through wholesale butchery by whites

e

The enormous mineral wealth taken from the mining frontier of the West a)solved the Indian problem b)solved the currency problem c)enabled the West to be free of federal interference d)profited individual prospectors but not corporations e)helped to finance the Civil War

e

Which one of the following was not among influential Populist leaders? a)William "Coin" Harvery b)Ignatius Donnelly c)Mary elizabeth Lease d)James B. Weaver e)Eugene V. Debs

e