BRISA - HIST 1302

The Ghost Dance:

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.

American expansionism after the 1890s:

was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.

Elections during the Gilded Age:

were closely contested affairs.

Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:

were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration.

How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?

Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

The victim's alleged sexual conduct.

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.

After the Haymarket Affair, employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals.

True

The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT:

an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

In the late nineteenth century, social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Laurence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change, primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of:

class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.

Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:

isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

low tariffs.

Plessy v. Ferguson:

sanctioned racial segregation.

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:

the free and unlimited coinage of silver.