Unit 3/4
Which of the following is correctly matched?
Adamson Act—eight-hour workday for railroad workers
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 president advocated measures to protect black voting rights in the South after the end of Reconstruction?
Benjamin Harrison
In regards to education, the post-Civil War era witnessed
an increase in compulsory school-attendance laws
Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he
announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president
The term Richardsonian in the late nineteenth century pertained to
architecture.
(A picture of an elephant being pulled into Teddyism) The cartoon above was most likely created in response to the
attempts of Progressive reformers to reform existing political institutions.
(Henry George: There is no question which of the great parties represents the house of Have and which the house of Want) The excerpt quoted above would be most useful to historians analyzing the
ties between Gilded Age politics and big business.
The increase of immigration to the US during the late 19th century had the greatest impact on
urban America.
Teddy Roosevelt believed that trusts
were here to stay with their efficient means of production but should be regulated.
During the mid-1890s, many middle-class and prosperous Americans reformers neglected
women's suffrage
(John Muir excerpt hyping up the wilderness) Muir's ideas are most directly a reaction to the
increasing usage and exploitation of western landscapes
Which of the following best describes a push factor of immigration?
lack of economic opportunity
Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in
landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values.
W.E.B Du Bois said that the "talented tenth" of American blacks should
lead the way to full social and political equality with whites
Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activities except
learning about socialism.
The Supreme Court's 1908 decision in Muller v. Oregon upheld a law
limiting the workday for women to ten hours.
The temperance/prohibition movement generally reflected the ideas and concerns of
middle-class women about the problems of alcohol.
In general, progressives were
mostly middle-class urban reformers.
To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to
nationalize the coal companies & use federal troops to operate them
Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except
opposed to factory labor.
(Excerpt about the tenements) Which phrase best summarizes what Riis considers the cause of the problems he sees?
"In the tenements all the influences make for evil"
Which of the following groups was the first target of congressional legislation restricting immigration expressly on the basis of national origin?
Chinese
Which of the following Progressive reforms amended the Sherman Act to prevent trusts from curbing competition?
Clayton Antitrust Act
(John Muir excerpt hyping up the wilderness) Muir's position regarding wilderness was most strongly opposed by which of the following?
Companies involved in natural resource extraction
Which of the following was President Cleveland's greatest public relations failure during his presidency?
Conducting secret negotiations with J. P. Morgan to replenish American gold
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.
Which one of the following is an effect of immigration?
Different city areas developed distinct ethnic neighborhoods
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.
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.
Which segment of the American population drove the creation and success of the People's Party in the early 1890s?
Farmers
Which of the following was promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette (1901-1905) as the Wisconsin Idea?
Greater government intervention in the economy
Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?
Grover Cleveland
Which of the following statements characterizes President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources?
He was a conservationist who tried to balance commercial and public interests.
After Roosevelt won the presidency in his own right in 1904, he did which of the following?
Implemented his Square Deal by stepping up his attacks on American trusts
Who stepped in to aid the federal government when the U.S. Treasury's gold supplies dwindled badly in 1895?
J. P. Morgan
The four states completely carried by the Populists in the election of 1892 were
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada. (KICN)
(Henry George: There is no question which of the great parties represents the house of Have and which the house of Want) Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of the excerpt?
Members of the People's (Populist) Party
(Graph of immigration rates increasing) The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the
Midwest and Northeast (NEMW)
W. E. B. Du Bois helped to create the
NAACP
(Excerpt about the tenements) During the late 19th century, which of the following groups most benefited from the poverty described by Riis?
Political Machines of the cities
What was the lasting legacy of the Progressive movement in America?
Progressives drew the blueprint for the powerful American state suited to an industrial era.
The New Immigrants were primarily of what religion?
Roman Catholics
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
(Excerpt about the tenements) Which individual would be most likely to argue that the government should not intervene to improve the tenements?
Social Darwinists
(Immigration Chart from 1870-1920) In the above chart, the "new immigrants" include those who arrived in the US from
Southern & Eastern Europe
Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies.
Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped create which organization
The National American Woman Suffrage Association
Which one of the following encouraged many Europeans to immigrate to America?
The United States offered more economic opportunity.
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.
(John Muir excerpt hyping up the wilderness) Which of the following aspects of Muir's description expresses a major change in Americans' views of the natural environment in regards to the Progressive Movement?
The idea that the government should preserve wilderness areas in a natural state
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1911 Standard Oil case?
The monopoly was broken up into 34 competing companies.
Which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true?
The only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi.
(Graph of immigration rates increasing) Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?
The transformation of the United States into an industrial society
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 best represents a nativist belief?
They believed that immigrants stole American jobs.
Which of the following was a reason for the increase of violence & racial prejudice in the South?
To prevent a Populist coalition between poor whites and African Americans
Why did the National Child Labor Committee, founded in 1907, hire photographer Lewis Hine?
To record the brutal conditions in mines and mills where children worked
UNIT 4
UNIT 4
The "Cross of Gold" Speech was delivered at the 1896 Democratic National convention earned whom the party's nomination for president?
William Jennings Bryan
Mark Hanna raised millions of dollars for which presidential candidate in 1896?
William McKinley
Which of the following presidents most easily won election to the White House and was seen as a powerful presence in the Oval Office?
William McKinley
What was the outcome of the 1912 presidential election?
Wilson won with a minority of the popular vote because Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote.
Which president presided over the largest expansion of federal powers between the Civil War and the Great Depression?
Woodrow Wilson
(Immigration Chart from 1870-1920) Which of the following most likely explains the significant reduction of immigration during the 1910s to the US?
World War I in Europe
In their 1892 Omaha Platform, Populists called for
a federal income tax.
In the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World were committed to achieving
a new society run by and for workers.
While William Jennings Bryan promoted free silver; McKinley
advocated for high tariff to protect industry and staying on the gold standard.
In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women
became much more common.
Someone who came to the US to work for a short time and then returned to Europe was called a
bird of passage
President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of
borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan.
Printing sensationalist stories to sell newspapers was a tactic used by
both William Randolph Hearst & Joseph Pulitzer
(A picture of an elephant being pulled into Teddyism) The ideas expressed in the cartoon above reflect most directly
calls for national political reform countered by conservative political resistance.
The development of department stores was a sure sign of which growing feature in American culture?
consumerism in America
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
control of LABOR
(Henry George: There is no question which of the great parties represents the house of Have and which the house of Want) The events described in the excerpt above contributed most directly to debates over
corruption in government, especially as it related to big business.
The Pendleton Act of 1883
created the Civil Service Commission, which filled some government jobs by examination.
Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection affected American religion by
creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and who supported it.
The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
decrease Chinese immigration.
The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to
emphasize more practical subjects and professional specialization, while de-emphasizing religious and moral instruction
Advocates of free silver believed it would
encourage borrowing and stimulate industry.
Organized in 1905, the Niagara Movement embraced
equal opportunity for African Americans.
The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by
expanding pensions for Civil War veterans.
In the course of the late nineteenth century,
family size gradually declined.
When Americans accept the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens, they begin to offer more support for
free public education systems.
The Morrill Act of 1862
granted public lands to states to support higher education.
Between 1876 and 1892, Americans could be described as
highly partisan and politically active.
Stresses of urban life had which effect on the family?
increase in divorce rates
In the late 19th century, the pattern of United States immigration changed in that
increasing numbers of immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe.
In a landmark decision regarding the Northern Securities Company, the U.S. Supreme Court
ordered the Northern Securities Company railroad trust dissolved.
Between 1910 and 1917, all the industrial states enacted laws that
provided insurance for on-the-job accidents.
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of _______________ trusts.
regulating
Which of the following best describes a pull factor of immigration?
religious freedom
The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880
retained their customs, values, religion, and language.
Jane Addams is best associated with
social reformers.
The American Protective Association
supported immigration restrictions.
Mugwumps were reformers who
supported smaller government.
Direct election of US Senators was made possible by
the 17th Amendment.
The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was
the availability of industrial jobs.