saberian test HIST1302

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

They called for public ownership of the railroads.

The writer who's work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was

Uptown Sinclair

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

Muckrakers

How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America

Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

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

the Triangle Shirtwaist fire

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson:

dismissed numerous black federal employees.

Thomas Edison

invented a system for generating and distributing electricity

The supreme Court in Lochner v. New York

voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of 60 hrs/week

Chief Joseph

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

American expansionism after the 1890s:

was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.

Dollar Diplomacy

was used by William Howard Taft instead of military intervention

Plessy v. Ferguson

sanctioned racial segregation.

Eugenics is the

the study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.

Bonanza Farms

typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

The progressive movement drew its strength from

middle-class reformers

The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.


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