Chapters 17

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard.

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:

the United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy.

All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT:

Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance.

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.

Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?

Blacks.

Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?

Higher tariffs.

Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

Public schools.

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

The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?

The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties.

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

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.

Which statement about the South after 1890 is FALSE?

Whites feared that northerners and the federal government would abolish the Jim Crow laws.

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.

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

argued in favor of the gold standard

In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association:

argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant foreign vote."

The Platt Amendment:

authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba.

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

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

The Spanish-American War:

brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control.

The Populist platform:

called for public ownership of railroads.

The new immigrants:

came from southern and eastern Europe.

The 1894 Pullman Strike

collapsed when union leaders were jailed.

The "white man's burden":

comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling.

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:

encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.

The People's Party:

evolved out of the Farmers' Alliance.

During the "Age of Empire," American racial attitudes:

had a global impact.

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:

held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

In the South, the Redeemers:

imposed a new racial order.

The election of 1896:

is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign.

The severe depression of 1893:

led to increased conflict between capitol and labor.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

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

All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT:

outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (1):

prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States.

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady

promised prosperity based on industrial expansion.

Between 1890 and 1906, southern state governments and white Southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT:

racial tests.

William Jennings Bryan:

ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.

The Populists:

relied on women orators such as Mary Elizabeth Lease.

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:

restricted membership to only skilled workers.

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:

ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson:

sanctioned racial segregation.

The Farmers' Alliance:

sought to improve conditions through cooperatives.

Twenty years after the end of Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South:

suffered the most from the region's poor conditions.

The Teller Amendment stated that:

the United States would not annex Cuba.

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

the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

In 1900, most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in:

the garment industry and as domestic laborers.

The Immigration Restriction League:

wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate.

American territorial expansionism:

was a feature of American life since well before independence.

At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching:

was an act of violence directed mostly at black men.

The Philippine War:

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

In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the Philippines:

was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the Filipinos.

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (2):

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

By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:

were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists.

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

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

ournalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

yellow journalists.

Which of the following stated that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories recently acquired by the United States?

Insular Cases.

Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE?

It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform.

What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?

It helped southern whites cope with defeat but preserve white supremacy.

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

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

The silver issue:

refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money.