APUSH MP1 Quarterly Review

Recognize what was true of daily newspapers in the late 19th century

-Sensational stories of sex and scandal captured the reading public's interest. -As they became big businesses, the intellectual and ethical standards of American journalism declined. -The heavy investment in machinery and plant was accompanied by a growing fear of offending advertisers and subscribers. -Bare-knuckle editorials were, to an increasing degree, being supplanted by feature articles and noncontroversial syndicated material.

Plessy v. Ferguson (Identify the historical significance)

A Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation laws, saying that as long as blacks were provided with "separate but equal" facilities, these laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision provided legal justification for the Jim Crow system until the 1950s.

From the 1880s to the New Deal, the dominant United States government policy toward American Indians was sought to

Break up tribal land holdings

After 1875, most natural scientists did which of the following?

Came around to espouse organic evolution after having initially opposed it.

Which was a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Chinese immigration was prohibited in the United States until 1943.

What political ideology did W.E.B. DuBois eventually follow and practice in the later years of his life?

Communism

What factor played the largest role in increasing the settlement of the Great Plains?

Construction of railroads.

The assassination of President James Garfield by a disappointed office seeker did which of the following?

Created the impetus to establish the first civil service system for federal employees

The late nineteenth century ushered in an era of social crusades and reform, including the effort to prohibit alcohol and promote temperance. Pick out the phrase that best describes the roll of this movement.

Decrease crime and poverty in urban environments; Save families from the impact of alcoholism

Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women's rights? Alice Paul Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dorothea Dix Carrie Chapman Catt

Dorothea Dix

What did Booker T Washington believe was the key for African Americans to achieve social and political equality?

Economic independence

What did the "normal schools" that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth century specialize in?

Educating teachers

African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as

Exodusters

Why was the Democrats' nomination of Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate in 1872 politically disastrous?

Greeley had spent many years denouncing Democrats as morally deficient slave traders and traitors.

Which of the following is one important continuity in urban life in the United States throughout the nineteenth century?

Immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce.

Why is the closing of the frontier dated to 1890?

In that year, the census bureau declared that there was no longer a discernible line of advancing pioneer settlement.

What did a vertical integration like the Carnegie Steel Corporation accomplish?

It established monopolistic control of every phase of business, from raw material to final consumer.

Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?

It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.

What best describes the primary base of the Democratic Party?

It included wealthy easterners, poorer midwesterners, and debt-burdened agrarians.

What organization was founded by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest in 1867?

KKK

Which of the following statements was not true of the 1862 Homestead Act? : It provided a system for the federal government to provide land directly to settlers. It made land available to citizens and to immigrants who planned to become citizens. Land speculators were effectively kept from abusing the act. To claim land, farmers had to build a dwelling and cultivate the land. Farmers were given ownership of land after living on it for five years.

Land speculators were effectively kept from abusing the act.

The union membership card pictured above is designed to accomplish which of the following?

Link union membership with patriotic and religious images

Who primarily ran settlement houses?

Middle-class, native-born women

Which of the following was a response to both immigration in the 1850s and the immigration depicted in the graph?

Nativists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants.

What did the Interstate Commerce Act achieve?

Railroads quickly became adept at using the act to achieve their own ends. but it gave the government an important means to regulate big business. It gave the government an important means to regulate big business. Congressional legislation that established the Interstate Commerce Commission, compelled railroads to publish standard rates, and prohibited rebates and pools. Railroads quickly became adept at using the act to achieve their own ends, but it gave the government an important means to regulate big business. (All choices are correct.)

The Americans advocation the ideas that expressed that only the strong survive woud be most accurately described as what?

Social Darwinists

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the following?

Strengthened the position of big business.

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in all of the following:

The return to Democratic-dominated electoral politics in the South The resolution of the 1876 election The official end of Reconstruction President Hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from former Confederate states.

What was one of the most difficult adjustments many formerly rural workers had to make to the industrial system?

The strict discipline and regimentation of time

Which best describes the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans during the Gilded Age?

They had few significant policy differences.

Who of the following was known as the most versatile inventor of the Gilded Age?

Thomas Edison

What educational institution was Booker T Washington president of in the late 19th century?

Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

Which group was most dramatically altered by the new industrial age?

Women

The image was created most directly in response to the:

consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported

expansion of southern industry

How did JP Morgan eliminate his banking competition?

interlocking directories

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

The cartoon above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century

municipal corruption

In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored

northern industrial interests

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to:

vertical integration