hist 1379 learnsmart assignment 4
The _____________ allowed for limited coinage of silver.
Bland-Allison Act
A significant compromise that met the most pressing banking and credit and regulatory needs or Wall Street, rural Democrats, populists, and high-ranking progressives was the _____________ ________________ Act of 1913.
Federal Reserve
in the 1896 election, populists supported the ______________ Party.
democratic
Which of the following statements regarding the interests of the political parties in the 1880s and 1890s is not true?
democrats represented the interests of farmers and workers.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, progressive politicians in the South advocated to ____________ African Americans, claiming it was a way to destroy corrupt political machines.
disenfranchise
Mississippi Democrats led the move to ___________ African American and poor whites by requiring voters to pay a poll tax and pass literacy exams.
disenfranchise
Which of the following statements best describes how Jim Crow politics helped end the political stalemate of the late 1800s?
disfranchisement split he formerly biracial populist coalition
Margaret Sanger hoped to free women from the burden of unwanted pregnancies by
disseminating birth control information
which statement regarding regulation of business in the late 1800s is not correct?
early state regulatory commissions were so powerful that federal regulation was unnecessary
Which statement about Mississippi's efforts to deny the vote to African Americans in 1890 is not true?
efforts at disfranchisement of blacks helped more poor whites to vote
The idea that human behavior was largely shaped by heredity, and that selective breeding would lead to improvement in human beings, was called ______________.
eugenics
Which of the following issues did President Grover Cleveland not support?
free coinage of silver
Which of the following was not a divisive political issue in the late 1800s?
gambling
What did President Grover Cleveland's monetary policy favor as the standard of value?
gold
Following the Civil War, Oliver Hudson Kelley created the Patrons of Husbandry to bring farmers together in local chapters called __________________.
granges
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to levy
income taxes
If a farmer owes his bank a great deal of money, he, as a debtor, prefers
inflation
What was the approach of the "Atlanta Compromise" called for by Booker T. Washington?
it accepted a restrained and gradual approach to bettering African Americans
Which of the following best explains the phrase "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" in the "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?
it rejects gold as the monetary standard (and consequently supports free silver coinage)
The Tuskegee Institute was organized to offer African Americans a way to
learn vocational skills
Progressives mistrusted the _____________ branch of government and worked to strengthen the power of certain members of the ___________ branch.
legislative, executive
which best describes the demands of the National Farmers' Alliance in 1890?
lower tariffs, free silver coinage, railroad regulations, and a federal income tax
All progressives shared the common desire to
make institutions more responsive to the people
Women gained increased public support for the right to vote because of outrage about the treatment of
militant woman suffragists
Their 1890 statements reflected Alliance members' deep distrust of "the _______________ power"--that is, banks and large corporations.
money
Theodore Roosevelt coined the term ___________ to refer to journalists who sensationalized social ills.
muckrakers
Which statement concerning the 1893 depression is correct?
new ideas concerning the role of government in society began to emerge
At the start of the twentieth century, most workers who were injured on the job received
nothing
Which statement describes the electorate that helped contribute to the political stalemate in the late 1800s?
party loyalty was very strong
During the progressive era, reformers sought to eliminate drinking and alcohol by all of the following means except
passing a national law banning alcohol.
What term best described the farmers' revolt of 1890 that brought an end to the national political stalemate?
populism
Progressive reformers saw _______ not as a result of flawed individuals but of unwholesome environments.
poverty
Which of the following philosophies were progressives most attracted to?
pragmatism
Which of the following was not an element of the Democratic Party trade policy in the late 1800s?
price protection for American-made goods
Conservatives opposed Theodore Roosevelt's meddling in the ______________ sector.
private
Ellen Richards's New England Kitchen ultimately
provided cheap, good food to students and middle-class working women.
To serve the "public good" by monitoring public officials and companies, holding public hearings, and setting fair rates for goods and services, nearly every state established ________________ commissions.
regulatory
Pragmatism is a philosophy that concerns itself mostly with
results
Which group had the most influence over state legislatures?
rural farmers
Political reformers opposed the saloon primarily because they
saw it as a place where corrupt political machines operated
Modeling their new profession after that of physicians, ______________ workers closely examined information to diagnose their clients' problems on a case-by-case basis.
social
Teddy Roosevelt's "black and tan" strategy was meant to build a biracial coalition among
southern Republicans
The 18996 campaign was referred to as "the battle of the _____________.'
standards
The position of the People's Party immediately following the 1892 election, in which it won multiple representatives in state and national government, was
strong in the short-term but weak in the long-term
In Muller v. Oregon, the U.S. Supreme Court legitimized the new social jurisprudence by
supporting legal arguments based more on the changing dynamics of society than legal precendent
The association of drinking with wife and child abuse was one of the major motivators for what became known as the ___________________ movement.
temperance
Which was not a consequence of he 1890 Sherman Silver purchase Act?
thanks to government investment, silver prices skyrocketed
Psychologist John B. Watson believed
that behavior could be shaped at will
If a struggling farmer in Texas wished to jointly own enterprises for buying equipment in the 1880s, which group would he most likely join?
the Southern Alliance
Roosevelt's program in which big government oversaw a pluralistic system in which big labor would counterbalance big capital and so on was known as
the Square Deal
what event prompted the passage of the Pendleton Act, also knows as the Civil Service Act, in 1883?
the assassination of President Garfield
Americanization was strongly linked to exhibiting the values and sensibilities of what class in U.S. society?
the middle class
True or false: African-American and some white farmers created their own alliance in Texas in the 1880s.
true
True or false: Professional women in the early twentieth century often had to work in gender-segregated environments.
true
Which of the following statements about President Wilson and social reform are true?
-Wilson nominated a progressive judge, Louis D. Brandeis, to the U.S. Supreme Court -off-year election losses pushed Wilson toward accepting social reform -Wilson initially criticized the social reforms of the New Nationalism
which of the following were included in the People's Party platform?
-an income tax -unlimited coinage of silver -expansion of the money supply
After Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the National American Women Suffrage Association in 1990, she sought to achieve the goal of women's suffrage in which of the follow ways?
-by following a grassroots strategy of education and persuasion -by making progress state by state
The People's Party, founded in St. Louis in February 1892, included representatives for which of the following causes?
-civil rights -feminism -workers' rights
Which of the following were results of the 1896 national election?
-dwindling party loyalties -stronger U.S. presidents -extended Republican rule
Which of the following statements about labor reform under Woodrow Wilson are true?
-he pressed for the improvement of working conditions of workers -he backed providing farmers with low-interest loans -he supported the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Silverites desired free silver because they believed it would lead to which of the following?
-helping debtors by lowering interest rates -raising the prices of commodities -increasing the supply of money
For which of the following reasons did bankers tend to support the gold standard?
-it keep interest rates high -it kept prices stable
Roosevelt's New Nationalism included which of the following?
-it recognized the value of consolidation in the economy -it embraced social justice
The "Granger laws" for which farmers lobbied in the 1870s were intended to regulate rates charged by which of the following?
-middlemen -gran elevator operators -railroads
Which of the following groups did progressives seek to control for fear of their vices spreading?
-prostitutes -immigrants
Which of the following were advocated by W. E. B. Du Bois as a ways for African Americans to better themselves?
-seeking equal rights -political struggle
Which of the following statements regarding racism in the South in the late 1800s are true?
-the white supremacy campaign sought to deprive poor whites of their right to vote -racism had a political purpose
Theodore Roosevelt's first intervention in a coal miners' strike led to miners receiving a
10% wage hike
At President Woodrow Wilson's 1913 inauguration, a protest parade of 5,000 women suffragists organized by ______________ ________________ led to suffragists being thrown in jail.
Alice Paul
Which of the following guided progressives in achieving their aims?
Christian ethics
As a result of the march to the U.S. Capitol building,
Coxey was arrested for trespassing
An Irish Catholic immigrant arriving in New York City in the late 1800s would be most likely to support which party?
Democratic
Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison lost the 1892 presidential election to
Grover Cleveland
which statement about President Benjamin Harrison is incorrect?
He did no work successfully with Congress
Who began a powerful antilynching campaign following the lynching of a close friend?
Ida B. Wells
Which of the following acts did not occur during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison?
Interstate Commerce Act
Who is the educator who embraces pragmatism in learning and teaching?
John Dewey
A piece of legislation enacted in 1910 as a response to realistic and unrealistic fears of a "white slave trade" was the ____________ Act.
Mann
The Niagara Movement formed by W. E. B. Du Bois to promote political and economic equality for African Americans eventually led to an organization best known by its initials, the ________________.
NAACP
Owing to its advocacy of strong state activism in industry, republicans found the strongest support in the
North
If an American voter of the late 1800s supports a protective tariff, which political party is he most likely to vote for?
Republican
Populists from which region of the country were initially hesitant to join the People's Party?
South
The ___________ of 1913 was the most comprehensive reduction in tariff rates since the Civil War
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
The Midwest was the region in which municipal and state reform movements were most successful, led by which state?
Wisconsin
Which of the following was accomplished during President McKinley's administration?
a means of arbitrating labor disputes with railroads
Which of the following had relatively little effect on labor strife in the late 1800s?
bank credit
Farmers blamed ____________ for their economic troubles.
bankers
The Keating-Owen Act of 1916
banned the interstate transport of child-manufactured goods.
In the 1880s and 1890s both parties supported
business.
The primary tool outside interests used against cities that tried to enact broad civic and social reforms were ____________ that defined the powers of cities.
charters
In the early twentieth century, preservationists warned of all of the following ecological costs of planned management except
climate change
In a political reform effort during the early twentieth century, some cities hired a city manager and other cities replaced their mayor and city council government with city _____________.
commissioners
Progressives valued __________ above preservation to ensure continued economic benefit
conservation
What factor underlay the economic problems of southern farmers?
credit
Some progressives who disapproved of Old World cultures and ethnicities wanted to transform the diversity into a more _________ society.
uniform
In the 1890s, Detroit practiced "gas and water socialism" by owning and operating a _______________ company.
utility
The origins of today's welfare state began over the issue of
veterans' benefits
Which statement regarding government responses to the 1893 depression is correct?
ward bosses in city government and politics were involved in providing relief
Which of the following were most responsible for sowing the seeds of the welfare state?
women
The women's suffrage movement began in the United States with
women's demand for equal rights at the Seneca Falls conference in 1848
