American History II
Which of the following was NOT a major problem farmers faced in the latter part of the 19th century?
Significant loss of land available for agriculture
Which of the following was a disadvantage of machine politics?
Taxpayers ultimately paid higher city taxes due to graft
The federal land law that played a major role in helping settle the American West, which allowed families to stake a claim of up to 160 acres of land, live on it for 5 years and own it, or live on it for 6 months and purchase the land for $1.25 an acre was called:
The Homestead Act
Which of the following was NOT one of the major obstacles to settlement of the American West?
The US government's disinterest in the region
Which statement about the Sand Creek Massacre is NOT true?
The fighting began when Indians attacked a mining town
Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist?
"The nation's purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners"
What group formed the backbone of the Republican Party in the South during Reconstruction?
African Americans
Towns in the trans-Mississippi West that grew to prominence due to successful mining ventures during the late 19th century were called:
Boom Towns
Where was the largest single vein of gold and silver in the United States discovered?
Comstock Lode, in Nevada
What effect did Reconstruction have on public schooling for African Americans?
Education for blacks remained underfunded and segregated
Which of the following is true of the nineteenth-century southern and Eastern European immigrants, as opposed to their western and Northern European predecessors?
Ellis island was the first destination for most southern and Eastern Europeans
Which of the following was NOT one of the basic beliefs/characteristics of Progressives?
Faith in laissez faire
Woodrow Wilson sought to reform banking primarily through the
Federal Reserve Act
Whites who advocated for better treatment of Indians in the West believed that:
Indians should be assimilated by teaching them American culture and ways
Which group was not a major part of the people known as "cowboys"?
Irish-Americans who left urban areas in the east
What was the first accomplishment of the Fourteenth Amendment?
It overruled the Dred Scott case by declaring persons born in the United States, except Indians, to be citizens
Other than getting laborers to work their land, how did the sharecrop system benefit landowners?
It reduced their risk when cotton prices were low
Which of the following "robber barons" was notable for the exploitative way he made his fortune in railroads?
Jay Gould
White Southerners during Reconstruction used the term carpetbaggers to describe:
Northerners who had moved to the South to make a profit from rebuilding the region
Which statement about elections in the period 1876-1900 is true?
Overall voter turnout was far greater than ever achieved after that period
Which of following was a popular pastime for working-class urban dwellers?
amusement parks
The most accurate description of the spoils system is:
awarding government jobs based on party activism and loyalty
James P. Morgan dominated what American industry?
banking and finance
An industrial owner who practiced horizontal integration:
bought out competitors in the same industry
The election of 1896
changed the style of political campaigns and shifted the positions of both major parties
The Pendleton Civil Service Act began the move toward:
departing partisan politics from attaining government job
What effect did industrial capitalism have on the nature of labor systems?
development of wage labor
Proponents of the Social Gospel believed all of the following ideas EXCEPT:
emphasizing a literal interpretation of the Old Testament
By the mid-1890s, female reformers had succeeded in
gaining the right to vote for women in some western states
The Nineteenth Amendment
gave women the right to vote
Which of the following did not contribute to the growth of a consumer culture in the United States at the close of the nineteenth century?
high wages for the working class
Before the industrial boom of the late 1800s:
labor was done by skilled artisans who controlled the output and pace of their labor
The Dawes Act of 1887 provided Native Americans with
land allotments to individuals
The term "Great Migration" refers to the:
mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North
Which of these was not a successful invention of the era?
movies with sound
The Industrial Workers of the World differed from the A.F.L by:
organizing all types of workers from a wide variety of ethnic groups
Which of the following was NOT one of the basic techniques of Progressives?
pressure voters into supporting their cause
What were the first two sports that became spectator activities featuring professionals?
prizefighting and baseball
The Fifteenth Amendment
prohibited the use of race, color or previous condition of servitude to disqualify voters
The Seventeenth Amendment
provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators
The main goal of the muckrakers was to
raise the public's awareness of social problems
What is meant by the term "redemption"?
restoration of local, white control in former Confederate states
Southerners who collaborated with Northerners after the Civil War were known as:
scalawags
Which of the following four elements was not essential for creating massive urban growth in late nineteenth-century America?
settlement houses
What labor system for former slaves developed soon after plantation owners reclaimed their land after the Civil War?
sharecrop system
Fredrick Jackson Turner's view of the American West, which stated the nature of frontier life and the process of settling it had shaped the American character and explained our process and greatness was called:
the Frontier Thesis
Mark Twain's Gilded Age is a reference to:
the corrupt politics of the post-Civil War era
Whites destroyed the buffalo herds for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
the government believed the Indians would survive better with fewer buffalo
The Populist Party advocated
the silver standard
Jacob A. Riis's How the Other Half Lives focused on:
the sordid life of the urban poor
How did the first legislatures in former Confederate states attempt to retain control over freed men and women?
through Black Codes that restricted civil rights of freed people
What term identifies the army of cashiers, clerks, and government employees who performed clerical work in the new industrial society?
white-collar workers
Public outrage against unsafe working conditions peaked when
young female workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
The dominant economy theory in the late 19th and early 20th century US, which stated that government should not regulate the economy/business, was called:
Laissez Faire
The first big business in the United States was:
Railroads
Between 1876 and 1900,
Republicans and Democrats has nearly equal electoral strength in presidential elections
Advocates of Social Darwinism believed that
Wealth is a mark of well-deserved success, power and responsibility
Who was NOT a candidate for president in 1912?
William Jennings Bryan
A Mugwump was:
a former member of the Republican Party
Which of the following was not a key goal of the Knights of Labor?
a graduated income tax on personal wealth
