HIST2620 Chapter 17

What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases?

Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?

Booker T. Washington

During the 1890s, millions of farmers rejected the Populist movement in an attempt to reverse their declining economic prospects and to rescue the government from what they saw as control by powerful corporate interests.

False

What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese immigrants without due process of law?

Fong Yue Ting

In this Supreme Court ruling, San Francisco was ordered to admit Chinese students to public schools.

Tape v. Hurley

Segregation was more than a form of racial separation; it was one part of an all-encompassing system of white domination.

True

Southern Democrats persistently raised the threat of "Negro domination" (a process often referred to as demagoguery) to justify denying blacks the right to vote.

True

Southern Populists forged notable alliances between black and white farmers.

True

The 1890s saw a widespread imposition not only of disfranchisement, but also of segregation in the South.

True

The Platt Amendment authorized the United States to intervene militarily whenever it saw fit.

True

The election of 1896 is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign, in part, because of the amount of money spent—William McKinley raised some $10 million, while William Jennings Bryan raised only around $300,000.

True

The organization that united writers and social reformers who felt American energies should be directed at home rather than acquiring land around the globe was called the Anti-Imperialist League.

True

Until the Great Migration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North during World War I, the vast majority of African-Americans lived in the South.

True

Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers' Alliance and the Populists?

excessive power of the labor unions

In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed?

none

While the total number of lynchings is difficult to determine during this time period, from 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the confirmed number of people lynched reached nearly

4,000.

In James Bryce's book, The American Commonwealth (1888), he suggests that African-Americans should have been given the right to vote much sooner to have avoided the tension in the decades following the Civil War

False

In a show of democratic solidarity on the part of the American people, the Farmers' Alliance, especially in the southern states, welcomed black farmers into the alliance.

False

In the 1880s and 1890s, blacks no longer served in the United States Congress.

False

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, "new immigrants" were welcomed with open arms by the American people.

False

In the late nineteenth century, urban workers rallied in support of Populist farmers.

False

Ironically, the Farmers' Alliance found greater support among industrial workers than among small farmers.

False

Only after Spain threatened to invade America did the United States elect to go to war.

False

The "white man's burden" was a way of saying that non-white people ruled over white people in many areas around the world and formed part of the progress of civilization that must be stopped. True

False

The Lost Cause mythology was rarely incorporated into churches as slavery was still questionable in the Bible.

False

Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor?

It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.

The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was

Jacob Coxey.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Kansas Exodus; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson

Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African-Americans migrated to

Kansas.

What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?

Plessy v. Ferguson

This political and social group promoted agricultural education and believed farmers should adopt modern scientific methods of cultivation.

Populists

What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894?

Pullman

Why did the nation's urban working-class voters shift their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894?

Republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.

The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late-nineteenth-century America were those arriving from

Scandinavia.

Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?

Theodore Roosevelt

One consequence of the bitter attacks on African-Americans' political rights across the South was that, by 1940, 97 percent of adult black southerners were not registered to vote.

True

After 1870, a "new imperialism" arose, dominated by European powers and Japan.

True

An oversupply of cotton on the world market, which led to a sharp decline in prices, contributed to a farmers' revolt and gave rise to the Populist movement.

True

As the subordination of blacks grew more rigid, American attitudes toward immigrants grew more tolerant.

True

Both the Baptist and Methodist religions divided into northern and southern branches after the Civil War.

True

In 1875, Congress excluded Chinese women from entering the country.

True

In 1882 and again in 1902, the United States Congress passed laws excluding immigrants from China.

True

In 1894, a coalition of white Populists and black Republicans won control of North Carolina, bringing the state into a sort of "second Reconstruction."

True

In 1900, the Foraker Act declared Puerto Rico an "insular territory," meaning it was different from previous territories in the West.

True

In 1915, the United States Supreme Court invalidated the "grandfather clause" for violating the Fifteenth Amendment

True

In the late nineteenth century, black women were largely excluded from jobs as secretaries, typists, and department store clerks.

True

Like the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was infused with the social elitism of the times.

True

Most Americans who looked to expand America's influence overseas were interested, not in territorial possessions, but in expanded trade.

True

The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896 and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was

William Jennings Bryan.

Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion?

a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures

Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South?

a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone

The "subtreasury plan" was

a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.

Which was not one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

a religious test

The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization

calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

The 1897 Dingley Tariff

raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.

During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole

sank deeper and deeper into poverty.

The Redeemers in the South

slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.

What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers?

the American Federation of Labor

The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was

the Farmers' Alliance.

The idea of a romanticized version of slavery in the Old South, focusing on the Confederate experience was called a. the Lost Cause. b. the Reedemer's Trial. c. the Rebel years. d. Insular Cases.

the Lost Cause.

What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?

the Open Door policy

What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?

the Philippine War

The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was

the Readjuster movement.

The "splendid little war" of 1898 was

the Spanish-American War.

In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives?

the battleship Maine

The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except

the inclusion of women in labor unions.

Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists?

using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause