Honors US History Test #4 Study Questions (jw)

Which was the Ellis Island of the West?

Angel Island.

Which event marked the end of the Indian wars?

Battle of Wounded Knee.

Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?

Blacks.

The massive hunting of what animal hurt the Plains Indians?

Buffalo.

After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range?

Cowboys.

What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?

He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act.

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive presidents were:

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

The first billion-dollar enterprise corporation was:

U.S. Steel.

The Whiskey Ring scandal took place during the administration of:

Ulysses Grant.

Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

Unskilled immigrant workers.

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

Upton Sinclair.

The Sixteenth Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax.

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

The Spanish-American War:

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

Thomas Edison:

invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant:

land ownership.

All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:

literacy tests and residency requirements.

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

lived in close-knit communities.

The Freedmen's Bureau:

made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care.

The Fourteenth Amendment:

marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers.

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

muckrakers.

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been:

non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern up-country prior to the Civil War.

The Indian victory at Little Bighorn:

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT:

outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States.

Between 1890 and 1906, southern state governments and white Southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT:

racial tests.

The __________ made possible the second industrial revolution in America.

railroads

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:

ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional.

As a Progressive president, Woodrow Wilson:

signed into law the Keating-Owen Act.

The Dawes Act of 1887:

sought to break up the tribal system.

The Fifteenth Amendment:

sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.

The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:

stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:

supported the conservation movement.

What did the freedmen request in their "Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" in 1865?

the right to purchase a homestead

The theory of Social Darwinism argued that:

the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor.

Bonanza farms:

typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

Chief Joseph:

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

In 1912, New Freedom:

was Woodrow Wilson's campaign pledge that government should renew economic competition with less government intervention.

The Ghost Dance:

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.

Sharecropping:

was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).

The election of 1876:

was tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:

ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace.

In the South, the Redeemers:

imposed a new racial order.

After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage:

included both middle- and working-class women.

A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:

civil rights for blacks.

The Social Gospel:

called for an equalization of wealth and power.

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:

defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.