Chapter 17

All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT:

Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance.

William McKinley

Annexed the Philippines

a republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

Argued in favor of the gold standard

Insular cases

Argued that the Constitution did not apply to terrorists

Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?

Blacks.

In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant forein vote."

After 1870, European powers along with Japan scrambled to dominate Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, justifying their imperialism as bringing civilization to the supposedly backward peoples of the non-European world.

TRUE

After the Spanish-American War, the United States fought a much longer and deadlier war against the filipinos in order to subdue the island for annexation.

TRUE

American interests in its new possessions had to do with wanting wealth from natural resources and large-scale American settlement.

TRUE

Brooks Adam's book "The New Empire" (1902) predicted that because of its economic power, the United States would soon "outweigh any single empire, if not all empires combined.

TRUE

By the end of the nineteenth century, the Civil War had come to be remembered as a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which slavery had played a minor role.

TRUE

Puerto Rico is the world's oldest colony as a commonwealth of the United States.

TRUE

Some view L. Frank Baum's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" as a commentary on the election of 1896 and its aftermath.

TRUE

The Homestead Strike demonstrated that neither a powerful union nor public opinion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations.

TRUE

The Populists made remarkable efforts to unite black and white farmers on a commom political and economic program.

TRUE

The depression that began in 1893 heightened the belief that a more aggressive foreign policy was necessary to stimulate American exports.

TRUE

in 1896, in the land mark decision of "Plessy v. Ferguson," the court gave its approval of state laws requiring seperate facilities for blacks and whites.

TRUE

the notation of the "white man's burden" inspired a sense of fraternity among Anglo-Saxon nations.

TRUE

Teller Amendment

The United States was not to annex Cuba

The Teller Amendment stated that:

The United States would not annex Cuba.

The Supreme Court decision "United States v. Wong Kim Ark" ruled that:

The fourteenth amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship.

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.

how were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

Chinese demands for equal rights forced the Supreme Court to define the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment.

True

Through a network of women's clubs, temperance associations, and social reform organizations, women exerted a growing influence on public affairs.

True

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

as a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no signifigant part.

The Platt Amendment:

authorized the United States to intervene military in Cuba.

Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of Reconstruction.

FALSE

Education flourished in the South, with approximately one black highschool for each county by 1900

FALSE

In 1880, the United States was a first-rate power.

FALSE

In a great exodus, African-Americans migrated to California, seeking political equality, freedom from violence, access to education, and economic opportunity.

FALSE

New immigrants were welcomed and treated with respect because their labor was desperately needed in the cities.

FALSE

Populists made determined efforts to appeal to industrial workers and ultimately succeed in getting labor's support.

FALSE

The American Federation of Labor was very much like the Knights of Labor.

FALSE

The Women's Christian Temperance Union was a small but effective organization that won the vote for women in many midwestern states.

FALSE

Three and a half million immigrants, mostly from northern and western Europe, arrived in the 1890s

FALSE

William McKinley championed a government that would help rdinary Americans.

FALSE

Booker T. Washington urged blacks to try to combat segregation and become active in politic affairs.

False

Jose Marti

Formed a revolution in Cuba

Samuel Gompers

Pioneered "business unionism"

Populist Party

Politically active farmers

James Weaver

Populist party presidential candidate.

Eugene Debs

President of the American Railway Union

which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

Public schools

WCTU Women Christian Temperance Union

campaigned for temperance

The 1894 Pullman strike:

collapsed when union leaders were jailed

the new immigrants:

come from southern and eastern Europe

The "White Man's Burden"

comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad.

Kansas Exodus

blacks migrated out of the south

The Spanish-American War:

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

Open Door

effort to keep tree trade in China

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.

Page Act

excluded Chinese women frim entereing the United States

"United States v. Wong Kim Ark"

gave Asians citizenship under the forteenth ammendment.

During the "Age of Empire," American Racial attitudes:

had a global impact

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

the election of 1896:

is sometimes called the first modern presidential campeinge

Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE?

it emerged as an urban, middle class vehicle for social, economic, snd 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.

The Immigration Restriction League:

wanted to bar immigrants under the age of eighteenth

Liberty tracts

warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy

American territorial expansionism:

was a feature of American life since well before independence.

At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching:

was an act of violence directed mostly at black men.

The Philippine War:

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.

In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church Church leaders that his decision to annex the Phillippines:

was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the filipinos.

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.

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 acivists.

Which statement about the South after 1890 is FALSE?

whites feared that northerners and the federal government would abbolish the Jim Crow Laws

Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:

women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal", which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

yellow journalists.

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

promised prosperity based on industrial expansion

Between 1890 and 1906, southern state governments and white Southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT:

racial tests.

William Jennings Bryan

Advocate of free silver.

Frances Willard

Believed politics was the place for women.

Disenfranchisement

Excluded from voting.

Which of the following stated that the Constitution did not fully apply to territories recently acquired by the United States?

Insular Cases.

Homestead Strike

Labor unrest in at a Carnegie steel mill

John Marshall Harlan

Supreme Court justice

After the 1896 election, voter participation began a study downhill trend that continues to today.

TRUE

William Jennings Bryan:

ran or president in 1896 on the free silver platform

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 Populist Platform:

called for public ownership of railroads

the silver issue:

refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States.

"Plessy v. Ferguson"

separate, but equal

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports.

The Populists:

relied on women orators such as Mary Elizabeth Lease

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:

restricted membership to only skilled workers

In "Plessy v. Ferguson" (1896), the supreme court:

ruled that "separate but equal" accomodations were costitutional

Plessy v. Ferguson:

sanctioned racial segregation

The Farmers' Alliance:

sought to improve conditions through cooperatives

Twenty years after the end of Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South:

suffered the most from the region's poor conditions.

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

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:

the free and unlimited coinage of silver

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 disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

the supreme court upheld the grandfather clause.

The severe depression on 1893:

led to increased conflict between capitol and labor

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's suffrage.

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.