Period 6 APUSH

Which of the following is a similarity between White's and Hahn's overall arguments in the excerpts about interactions between American Indians and the United States in the late 1800s?

Both claim that United States officials sought to restrict the authority of tribes over individuals.

Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?

Chinese and Irish

The fulfillment of advice such as that in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following in the late nineteenth century?

Competition for resources among White settlers and American Indians

Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?

Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system

Which of the following was true of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 ?

It eliminated most tribal land ownership in favor of ownership by individuals.

Which of the following was true of the American labor movement in the late nineteenth century?

It was involved in a number of violent strikes.

Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American Federation of Labor in organizing labor in the late 1800s?

Its policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen

A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

Jane Addams

Which of the following policies would Carnegie most likely have supported?

Laissez-faire economics

Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the quote above?

Midwestern farmers

Which of the following most accurately describes a group who acted on ideas such as those in the excerpt?

Northern European immigrants pursuing mining, farming, and ranching

The ideas of the Populist Party, as expressed in the excerpt, had the most in common with the ideas of the

Progressive movement

Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?

Restrictive congressional legislation

Settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods?

The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

"One by one the southern states have legally disfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every southern state has passed separate [railroad] car laws with a penalty against their infringement. The race, regardless of advancement, is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars." The author of the statement above was

an African American journalist in the 1890s

The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture

The "temporary unequal distribution of wealth" that Carnegie refers to in the excerpt resulted most directly from the

consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's

cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents

The "Atlanta Compromise" is the name given to the

proposal that African Americans emphasize making economic progress over the quest for political and social equality

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

relied on the use of power-driven machinery

W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed

African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality

Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 ?

American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land

The Ghost Dance, a religious movement that developed in the late nineteenth century, emerged from which of the following?

American Indians' distress over loss of tribal authority

The People's Party (Populist) advocated which of the following?

An increase in the money supply

During the Gilded Age, which of the following groups generally voted Republican?

Black northerners

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

European farms and villages

Which of the following groups of people would have been most likely to oppose Taylor's management ideas?

Factory workers

The claims made by White and Hahn about United States policies toward American Indians in the late nineteenth century are similar in that they both support which of the following arguments?

Federal officials desired to encourage the adoption of White American lifestyles by American Indians.

The Dawes Act (1887) did which of the following?

Divided Native American tribal lands into individual holdings.

The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?

Social Darwinism

Which of the following pieces of historical evidence would best modify the claim in the last paragraph of the excerpt?

Some Democratic political machines continued Republican fiscal policies that limited spending on patronage jobs.

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the following?

Strengthened the position of big business.

The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to

draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor

Frederick Jackson Turner's theory emphasized the significance of the frontier for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

The western frontier had land that could be distributed to former slaves.

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did which of the following?

They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support.

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?

They were mainly female

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth endorsed which of the following views?

Wealthy individuals have a duty to return their fortunes to society.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

The perspective expressed in the excerpt most directly supported the national expansion of

access to higher education

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was primarily an expression of his

advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver

From the 1880's to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant American Indian policy of the United Stated government sought to

break up tribal landholdings

The cartoon above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century

municipal corruption

The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated with

distress over loss of tribal autonomy

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored

northern industrial interests

African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as

exodusters

All of the following contributed to the decline of open-range cattle ranching at the end of the nineteenth century EXCEPT

federal recognition of American Indian land claims

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth was based on the belief that wealthy industrialists should use their wealth to

finance philanthropic endeavors

Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the

growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming

Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to

immigrants

Women working in settlement houses such as Hull House initially sought to help

immigrants adapt to American customs and language

Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of business monopolies, courts initially used its provisions successfully against

labor unions

Between 1870 and 1900, farmers did all of the following in an attempt to better their condition EXCEPT

limit production of crops

The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized

skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

These sentiments are most characteristic of

the Gospel of Wealth

According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, a key factor in the development of American individualism and democracy was

the frontier