History Chapter 16 & 17 Quiz Questions

With the Redeemers in power in the South:

(A and B) Louisiana became the only state in the Union where white illiteracy rates actually increased and convict labor, rented out to private business owners, became a profitable venture for railroad, mining, and lumber companies.

Which of the following was included in the theatrical and dime novel depictions of the American West?

Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting.

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

Argued in favor of the gold standard.

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.

On what grounds did Justice David J. Brewer dissent from the majority opinion in the case of Fong Yue Ting (1893) that authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?

Brewer worried that a similar rationale could be used in the future to subvert the rights to due process of other people.

which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate?

By 1880, 3/4 of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.

William Cody

Created a "Wild West" show that toured the United States and Europe.

The 1894 Pullman Strike:

Crippled national rail service and triggered the arrest of union president, Eugene V. Debs.

The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:

Dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.

Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of U.S. Chinese exclusion polices of the late nineteenth century?

Eastern cities experienced a dramatic increase in Chinese immigration

The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to:

Ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates.

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:

Focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums

Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?

He has provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes

How did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations to cities?

Increasing output worldwide pushed down the pride of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet.

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the significance of the 1892 strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania?

It demonstrated the enormous power of large corporations and reflected the belief of many working Americans that they were being denied economic independence and self-governance.

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

Low tariffs

Why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve e statehood?

Many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon populations.

Which of the following more accurately describes the relationship between the government and the economy in the Gilded Age?

Politicians of both major parties favored business and banks and supported a reduction in the money supply and a return to the gold standard.

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

Promised prosperity based on industrial expansion

The Farmers' Alliance hoped to improve American farmers' economic stress by:

Proposing the creation of government- sponsored crop warehouses

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

Public Schools

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

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

In contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:

Territory

Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American war?

The United States would have been barred from annexing the archipelago.

How did economic development in Brazil during and after the American Civil War affect the lives of southern cotton farmers?

The expansion of Brazilian cotton cultivation lowered global prices for the crop and led to indebtedness and loss of land for southern farmers.

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

The victim's alleged sexual conduct.

What did Native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia?

They found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions

How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South?

They insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift."

What was the aim of boarding schools for Indians?

To civilize the Indians, making them "American" as whites defined the term.

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

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners.

The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York:

Voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week.

Elections during the Gilded Age:

Were closely contested affairs.

Which of the following properly compares the United States Supreme Court's approach to organization in business and labor during the Gilded Age?

While the court applied the Sherman Antitrust Act to break down unions, it proved unwilling to endorse any regulation of big business.

Which Statement about the 1896 election if FALSE?

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard.

Chinese immigrants to the West:

Worked in shoe and cigar factories in western cities.

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

Yellow journalists

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

a shift form broad reform goals to more limited goals.

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

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

"New immigrants":

arrived in large numbers form the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires

The Platt Amendment:

authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba

Native-born middle-class women under the leadership of Carrie Chapman-Catt argued that they deserved the right to vote on account of their:

birth in United States

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

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

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

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

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

the Free and unlimited coinage of silver.

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the minion and railroad industries.

Bonaza farms:

typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

Chief Joseph:

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Perce

The Ghost Dance:

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

The Knights of Labor:

was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

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

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

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

By 1890, the majority of Americans:

worked for wages