APUSH CHAPTER 22-26 TEST

In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women became

much more common

The move to cities led to what major and enduring change in American lifestyles?

new ways of living; goods came in throwaway bottles and packages, apartment houses had not adjoining backyards, cheap ready to wear clothing was always available, waste disposal became an issue; criminals flourished and sanitary factories could not keep up

The Credit Mobilier scandal involved

railroad construction kickbacks

The success of the public schools in the post-Civil War era is best evidenced by

the decline of the popularity of parochial and religiously affiliated schools among the New Immigrants.

Horatio Alger

Writer of novels stressing rags to riches stories of boys

Lewis Wallace

Wrote Ben Hur, against Darwinism

Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment because _________ and despite ________

A citizen right to vote was denied / having worked wholeheartedly for the cause of emancipation

In the wake of anti-Chinese violence in California, the United States Congress passed

A law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers to America

A- The Dawes Act, B-Oklahoma land rush, C-Indians granted full citizenship, D-Congress restores the tribal basis of Indian life.

A,B,C,D

The wild frontier towns where the three major cattle trials from Texas ended were

Abilene, kansas; ogalalla, nebraska; and cheyanne, wyoming

In seeking congressional approval to enact lower tariffs in 1887, President Grover Cleveland

All choices will be correct

J.P. Morgan

Banker who buys out Carnegie Steel and renames it to U.S. Steel. Was a philanthropist in a way; he gave all the money needed for WWI and was payed back. Was one of the "Robber barons"

Andrew Carnegie

Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL

The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender and end their resistance to losing their lands

By the virtual extermination of the buffalo

A new round of warfare between Sioux and U.S Army began in 1874 when

Colonel George Cluster discovered gold on Sioux land in the black hills

To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following

Dissolved many tribes into legal entities, Tried to make rugged individualist of the Indians, Wiped out tribal ownership of lands, Promised Indian citizenship in 25 years

John D. Rockefeller

Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history

What were common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?

Forcing

The Nez Perce indians of idaho were goaded into war when

Gold was discovered on their reservation

Benjamin Harrison's victory over Grover Cleveland in the election of 1888 was unusual in that

Harrison lost the popular vote

What were the conditions for workers in the textile mills of the industrializing south?

Horrible

Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were designed to

Intimidate African Americans to accept second class status

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was..

Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.

Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called

Pools

President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction aimed to

Punish confederate leaders

In post-Civil War America, Plains indians surrendered their lands only when they

Received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies

The Indians battled whites for all the following reasons BESIDES

Rescue their women who had been exiled to oklahoma

What were the various ways southern black responded to the prospect of emancipation?

Search for long-lost family members worked in towns and cities. Church became the focus of black communities; tested their freedom, search for family members and seek economic opportunity

Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with with the 14th and 15th Amendments because they

Specified the constitution that only males could vote

The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated the typical lacks of

The Gilded Age

William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham

Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

The major electoral problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on

The two sets of different election returns

I'm the Presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant owed his victory to

The votes of former slaves

The Presidential election of the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by

Turnouts among voters

America's first billion-dollar corporation was

United States Steel

During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except

Voting

Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley actively

actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws and child labor laws.

The intellectual developments that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

biology of Charles Darwin

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act.

The 19th-century humanitarians whp advocated kind treatment of the indians, had no respect for

for traditional Indian culture than those who sought to exterminate them

One of the major reasons the Knights of Labor failed was

lack of class-conciousness

The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to

take a competitive examination

An epidemic of violent strikes and labor conflict in 1892 led to the prospect of

the Populists adding industrial workers to their base of support among farmers

Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, Romona, was centered around

the cruel mistreatment of the Indians

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

the last federal troops were removed in 1877.

One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was

the rise of large department store .

Leftist scholars who found fault with the Post-Civil War era captains of industry mostly argued that..

these men built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers

Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came

to find work in industry and agriculture..etc.