CC History Test Over Module 5

Which of the following statements characterizes changes in the lives of middle -class american children in the last decades of the nineteenth century ?

A high school education became more common.

Who of the following was the greatest benefactor of public libraries in nineteenth-century America, who in 1881 announced that he would build a library in any city that was prepared to maintain it?

Andrew Carnegie

Which of the following statements describes Charles Darwin's theories as presented in his book, On the Origin of Species?

Animals and plants adapt to better suit their environment through natural selection.

Which of the following sports were invented by YMCA instructors in the 1890's?

Basketball

The prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals?

Bringing full equality to blacks

Which of the following describes the tenements that were typical of many urban areas in the early twentieth century?

Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments

By 1916, which of the following religious groups had increased immensely in the United States because of immigration?

Catholics

The first skyscraper in the United States was built in 1885 in which city?

Chicago

Immigrants from what country were the target of attacks at the 1885 Rock Springs massacre?

China

The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against the Chinese in nineteenth-century California by barring Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882 with the _________________.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Which sport was the most controversial in the late 1800's

College Football

In which of the following ways did American politics change during the mid-1890s?

Democrats became almost the only political party in the South for decades.

After 1892, immigrants were routed through enormous receiving stations. The most famous of these was _______.

Ellis Island

Which of these concepts followed directly from the philosophy of Social Darwinism?

Eugenics laws

Why were the presidents in office during the period from 1877 to 1895 generally undistinguished and ineffectual?

Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands.

Between the Civil War and WWI, less than 25 million immigrants entered the United States.

False - more than 25 million

Which of the following statements characterizes family life in the late 1800's?

Family size continued it's steadily decline because middle-class children in cities were not needed for work.

Which segment of the American population drove the creation and success of the People's Party in the early 1890s?

Farmers

The National Association of Colored Women was effective in its efforts to improve the life of African Americans because it

Focused its attention on community issues such as public health

Which of these factors were the critical determinants of workers' occupational opportunities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Gender and race

Which of the following groups would have been unlikely to support prohibition in the late ninrenth century?

German Immigrants

What did the Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Homestead Strike of 1892 have in common?

Government troops helped put down both strikes.

Which of the following statements summarizes Booker T. Washington's approach to racial change in the United States?

He prompted industrial education for blacks as a strategy for lessening white prejudice.

What did the term petticoat rule mean when it was used by antisuffragists in the early twentieth century?

If granted the right to vote, women might cancel husband's vote.

Which of the following statements most characterizes residential patterns in the typical American city around 1900?

Immigrants from a particular region of a country tended to settle by ethnic group.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech to congress in 1892 on the "solitude of self" referred to the

Importance of women's autonomy in modern society.

Which of the following policies did the Greenback-Labor Party support in the 1870s?

Inflation

In the late nineteenth century, the American Catholic hierarchy was dominated by

Irish Americans.

Which of the following describes the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in the late nineteenth century?

It supported woman suffrage as a tool that could challenge the liquor interests.

Which of the following statements characterizes urban leisure in post- civil war America?

Leisure became a commercial commodity enjoyed outside the home.

Which of these statements describes the newly rising American middle class around 1900?

Many preferred to live in the suburbs because of the safety and space it afforded them.

Which of the following authors is correctly matched with one of his works?

Mark Twain—A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Why was McKinley's campaign in the 1896 presidential election superior to Bryan's?

McKinley raised and spent a great deal of money donated by corporations.

Which of the following describes consumer culture that emerged in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth - century United States?

Modern and innovative

Around the turn of the century, African Americans moving to cities in the North experienced which of the following?

More discrimination than even the most downtrodden European immigrants

Why has the labor movement always been relatively weak in American politics?

Most industrial workers live in urban areas and cities, which are underrepresented in Congress.

Which of the following figures was a major proponent of commercial domesticity in the nineteenth century?

P. T Barnum

Which of these late nineteenth- century U.S supreme court rulings settled the question of African Americans' access to regular first- class seats on an American railroad cars until the 1950's?

Plessy VS Ferguson

Which of the following statements describes the anti-black race riots that occurred in cities in the early twentieth century?

Race riots foreshadowed a worsening of urban racial tensions.

The Great Strike of 1877 involved workers in which industry?

Railroads

Which of the following was a result of the laws passed to disenfranchise blacks across the South in the 1890s and early 1900s?

Segregation laws barring blacks from public and private places such as hotels, parks, and public drinking fountains were passed.

Which of the following was the first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts?

Sherman Antitrust Act

What accounted for the relocation of manufacturing operations into urban areas after the Civil War?

Steam power

Which invention transformed urban and suburban communications in the United States after 1876?

Telephone

In which of the following athletic activities were an elite woman in their twenties likely to participate

Tennis

Why was the American Federation of Labor more successful than the Knights of Labor in the late nineteenth century?

The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours, and working conditions.

Which of the following was a nineteenth-century example of a trade union?

The American Federation of Labor

Where did almost 90 percent of African Americans live in 1900?

The South

What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he stated, "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" in his famous 1896 speech?

The United States should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry.

The growth of YMCA in the late- nineteenth-century American cities resulted from which of the following factors?

The YMCA prompted "muscular Christianity" for white-collar workers.

Which of the following made the growth of skyscrapers possible?

The development of steel girders, plate glass, and elevators

Which of the following explains the inability of the Populists to become a major national political party alongside the Republicans and the Democrats in the late 1890s?

The economic depression of the 1890s

Which of the following was a reason American business embraced baseball in the late nineteenth century?

The game was a wholesome was to promote discipline and teamwork.

Why was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant?

The incident led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor.

The Gibson Girl of 1890's personified which of the following female images?

The middle class "New Woman" - public spirited and athletic

Why did the rate of collage attendance quadruple between the 180's and 1920's?

The public university system expanded.

How did the federal government respond when jobless men marched on Washington in 1894?

Their leader Jacob Coxey was arrested and their demands were not met.

Which of the following statements describes the Chinese immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century?

They faced more severe discrimination than European immigrants.

Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920?

They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home.

Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United States in the nineteenth century?

They were motivated by poverty and upheaval in southern China.

By 1900, which of the following was the primary means of urban mass transit in the United States?

Trolley car

Which region of the united states had responded to the women's voting right movement by 1900?

West

In their 1892 Omaha Platform, Populists called for

a federal income tax.

The Pendleton Act of 1883

created the Civil Service Commission, which filled some government jobs by examination.

Advocates of free silver believed it would

encourage borrowing and stimulate industry.

Between 1876 and 1892, Americans could be described as

highly partisan and politically active.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU) was the first national movement to

identify and fight against domestic violence

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists, such as William Graham Sumner, believed that

millionaires were the fittest Americans.

The Comstock Act took effect in 1873 and

prohibited the circulation of any information about sex and birth control.

State Granger laws were designed primarily to

regulate big business.

New immigration patterns in the early twentieth century reflected growing emigration from

southern and Eastern Europe.

Founded in 1867, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry

sponsored events to improve the social life of farm families.

Established in 1887, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

sued in court to force companies to reduce high rates.

Mugwumps were reformers who

supported smaller government.

Protestant churches that espoused the Social Gospel

taught that Christians should fight for social justice and the public welfare.

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Granger laws in Wabash v. Illinois (1886) led to

the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The urban revivalism of Billy Sunday represented

the fundamentalism movement.