American Yawp quiz 4 (exam 2)
Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities?
1920
From 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were lynched by white mobs.
5,000
By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?
60
By 1900, the richest ten percent of Americans controlled approximately _______ percent of the nation's wealth.
90
What was the Lost Cause?
A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves
What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Agriculture
How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance?
Asserted the federal government's power to enforce the Bill of Rights over the authority of the states
When did Reconstruction begin?
Before the war ended
In 1892, the Populists' Omaha Platform advocated for each of the following EXCEPT
Breaking up United States Steel
By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.
Britain, France and Germany combined
White southerners used each of the following terrorist tactics to enforce racial hierarchies EXCEPT
Burning state capitols in Tennessee and Mississippi while black lawmakers were in session
In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?
Chicago
Black churches helped to develop political organization in black communities in each of the following ways EXCEPT
Collaborating with white communities to promote integrated worship experiences
Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?
Democratic Party
Black delegates actively participated in revising the state constitutions of southern states. In addition to election reform, what other major accomplishment did these delegates achieve?
Established public school systems
Which of the following goal of freed people was the least successful?
Gaining access to land
Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?
He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts
________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
Ida B. Wells
Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?
Industrial production
Why did women's rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment?
It introduced the word "male" into the Constitution for the first time
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following?
Promised the removal of federal troops from the South
Each of the following was a tactic used to disfranchise black voters EXCEPT
Repealing the 15th Amendment to the Constitution
All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT
Rotary Clubs
The Socialist Party of America achieved each of the following gains in the early twentieth century EXCEPT
Securing a fusion with the Democrats and nominating Eugene Debs as the Vice President in 1896
What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?
Sharecropping
Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?
Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains
Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?
State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak
What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?
The adoption of interchangeable parts
What was the 1905 "tainted money debate?"
The decision whether the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions would accept a large donation by John D. Rockefeller
All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT
They saw economic independence as a means of limiting connections between North and South
A wave of mergers, creating monopolies, peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?
United States Steel
Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?
haymarket riot
Black codes had each of the following effects EXCEPT
prohibited blacks to marry
Why were southerners unable to maintain unity in the People's Party?
racial conflict
Which industry created the first great concentrations of capital, spawned the first massive corporations, made the first of the vast fortunes that would define the Gilded Age, and unleashed labor demands that united thousands of farmers and immigrants?
railroad
