apush unit 6 MC
After the Civil War, some businesspeople and newspaper editors—such as the Atlanta Constitution's Henry Grady—promoted the idea of a New South. Which of the following best describes their vision for the southern states?
A mixed economy no longer primarily dependent on cash crops
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 developments helps to explain the rise in exports from the West Coast depicted in the graph?
An expansion in the railroad network led to greater access of western farmers to eastern markets.
The cartoon suggests that the disparate groups that favored the People's (Populist) Party typically shared which of the following?
Belief in a stronger federal government role in the United States economic system
The practices of big-business leaders in the late 1800s best reflect which of the following actions illustrated by the excerpt?
Big-business leaders used their influence to facilitate rapid economic growth.
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
During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?
Educated middle-class women
Which of the following arguments did some late-nineteenth-century leaders use to justify the situation depicted in the image?
Evolutionary principles determined that people succeeded based on their merits.
Which of the following developments best explains the reasons for the growth of a new urban culture in the late 1800s?
International and internal migration increased urban populations and brought diverse people to cities.
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.
The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the
Midwest and Northeast
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
Which of the following most directly affected the lives of the late-nineteenth-century workers?
Political machines that provided social services in exchange for votes
The excerpts above appeared in the platform of which of the following political parties?
Populist Party
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
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the Populist Party?
Sharecroppers
The excerpt best reflects which of the following economic developments in the late 1800s?
The consolidation of power over the economy by business leaders
The People's (Populist) Party emerged most directly in response to which of the following late-nineteenth-century trends?
The growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy
The excerpt best reflects which of the following economic developments in the late 1800s?
The increase in wealth inequality in United States society
Which of the following contributed to reducing the conflict that article 11 and similar provisions of other treaties were designed to address?
The destruction of nearly the entire population of buffalo
Which of the following developments helps to explain the change in agriculture depicted in the graph?
The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods.
Which of the following late-nineteenth-century federal actions most directly supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
The sale of land to settlers at low cost
Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?
The transformation of the United States into an industrial society
Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women.
Which of the following was typical of agreements such as the Fort Laramie Treaty between the United States government and American Indians in the post-Civil War West?
They usually lasted a short time before being broken by settlers' incursions onto American Indian reservations.
The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?
Upheld segregated railroad facilities.
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was primarily an expression of his
advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver
The conflict between the Sioux nation and the United States was primarily driven by differing
claims to land
The image was created most directly in response to the
consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies
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
Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the
growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming
In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored
northern industrial interests
In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that
the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas
The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted in
the formation of a political party that promoted nativism
The situation depicted in the image contributed most immediately to
the organization of new labor unions to confront managerial power