History final 17

Which was NOT part of the Populist platform

Higher tariffs

What did the term "white man's burden" mean

Imperialism required long absences from friends and family back home.

After the 1896 election, voter participation began a steady downhill trend that continues to this day

True

The "new imperialism" involved European colonial powers seeking to consolidate their domination of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in the name of "civilization."

True

William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans.

True

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

The Platt Amendment

authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court

determined that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos would become U.S. citizens in 1904

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:

encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation

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

the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

The Philippine war

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War

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

In 1898, the American system of government had no provision for permanent colonies

False

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

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

Public schools

How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops

They called for public ownership of the railroads

The severe depression of 1893

led to increased conflict between capital and labor

Plessy v. Ferguson

sanctioned racial segregation.

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

the Fourteenth Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship