US HISTORY CHAPTER17

The American Federation of Labor's founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of "freedom of contract" to:

Argue against interference by judges with workers' right to organize unions.

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

As a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part.

Which of the following was the reason for U.S. control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?

Control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval and commercial power.

Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of U.S. Chinese exclusion policies of the late nineteenth century?

Eastern cities experienced a dramatic increase in Chinese immigration.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's suffrage.

In contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:

Territory.

The Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruled that:

The Fourteenth Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship.

Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American war?

The United States would have been barred from annexing the archipelago.

How did economic development in Brazil during and after the American Civil War affect the lives of southern cotton farmers?

The expansion of Brazilian cotton cultivation lowered global prices for the crop and led to indebtedness and loss of land for southern farmers.

How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops?

They called for public ownership of the railroads.

Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:

Women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded.

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad.

Plessy v. Ferguson

sanctioned racial segregation.

The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.

The Philippine War:

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War.