2nd Semester Mid Term
What is the definition of a party "boss"?
An absolute political leader who uses his "machine" to govern local politics. promoting personal and party interests
The group of journalists who drew attention to the abuses in society and published them in stories were known collectively as
Muckrakers
Which of the following was a goal shared by most Populists?
Political reforms meant to give the "people" more power and that were often implemented by progressives
By 1897, the United States had more of which of the following than all the European nations combined?
Railroads
The Hawaiian ruler Queen Liliuokalani tried to do which of the following in the early 1890s?
Restrict the growing political power of America in the islands
The ... were a special regiment made up of good shots and good riders that Theodore Roosevelt joined during the War of 1898
Rough Riders
Which of the following was a promise made by the Republican party as part of the Compromise of 1877?
They would remove the remaining Union troops from the South
What was the predominant reason southern whites used the practice of lynching during the New South era?
To exert social, economic, and political control on southern blacks
by 1900, what percentage of the residents in major cities was a foreign born?
30 percent
Which of the following describes the movement of populism?
A third political party in a system dominated by two major political parties
What was reform Darwinism?
A way of thinking strongly at odds with the "progressive" movement of the late nineteenth century
Which of the following was true at the end of Reconstruction in the United States?
Blacks were free, but their civil rights remained threatened
The ... tribe alllied with the Sioux to fight federal troops in the Great Sioux War in the mid-1870s
Cheyenne
In 1883, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the ... was unconstitutional, resulting in the spread of segregation
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Which of the following statements about the state of the American economy in 1900 is accurate?
Compared with other industrialized nations, the United States had some of the highest concentration of poverty
... was the name for the African Americans who migrated West in search of social and economical opportunities
Exodusters
Unlike the Grange, the ... promoted political involvement among its members to enact change for their members
Farmers' Alliances
... led the American troops the infamous Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876
George A. Custer
Which of the following countries had the highest casualties during the Great War?
Germany
What was the Wilson administration's stance on the role of women as the war grew in scope?
It recruited women to take on jobs previously held by mainly men
Who is best associated with the Hull House?
Jane Adams
In 1905, President Roosevelt helped negotiate a peace settlement between
Japan and Russia
... set up the first stockyard for Texas cattle in Abilene, Kansas
Joseph G. McCoy
Which of the following characterized yellow journalism, the type of newspaper reporting that appeared during the Spanish-American War (War of 1898)?
Sensationalism meant to affect public opinion
Which of the following statement regarding southern sharecroppers is accurate?
Sharecropping worked in return for things like shelter and seed
Andrew Carnegie is the best associated with which industry?
Steel
Why were Washington Duke and his son James Buchanan significant figures?
They perfected the mass production of cigarettes
Which of the following statements regarding American imperialism in the Pacific is accurate?
The United States' acquisition of Alaska resulted in acquiring large oil and gold deposits
What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of the Great War?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
After the hurricane destroyed Galveston, Texas, a new method of government was implemented there. It gave a small board both executive and legislative powers in governing the city. What was this new method called?
The commission system
What did President Garfield believe was the most important political change since the adoption of the Constitutional in 1787?
The elevation of blacks from slavery to full rights of citizenship
According to the textbook, what, more than any other factor, ignited the progressive movement?
The worst economic downtown in U.S. history
The ... voted to reject the Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson had worked so hard on
U.S. Senate
What is it called when one company buys everything needed to produce, market, and deliver their product?
Vertical integration
Sharecropping was a labor system in which the landowner provided land, seed, and tools to poor farmers in exchange for
a "share" of the crop
In the late nineteenth century, the growth of cities brought
a number of social problems such as widespread poverty
Roosevelt's "Square Deal" featured
a plan that emphasized the intention of benefiting both rich and poor
Unlike today, citizens during the Gilded Age expected the ... government to have little to no effect on their daily lives
federal
President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he
fired his Secretary of War in defiance of Congress
According to your textbook, after the Civil War, Americans generally favored ... in foreign policy
isolationism
What did the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 do?
it attempted to "Americanize" Native Americans
What did the Ku Klux Klan Act do?
it outlawed Klan activity such as wearing disguises
As a result of economic opportunities in the New West, ... boomtowns often appeared suddenly
male-dominated
The initiative and the referendum were reforms designed to weaken the power of the
political elites
The Union League was created to
recruit former slaves to the Republican Party
Dangerously overcrowded, filthy, and poorly maintained ... were where the poor of the urban areas lived
tenements
Before the Civil War, Americans referred to the area between California and the Mississippi River as
the Great American Desert
What is the name of the U.S. battleship that famously sank in Havana Harbor in 1898?
the Maine
For a $10 million down payment, the Roosevelt administration arranged the use in perpetuity of
the Panama Canal
Wilson's definition of progressivism applied to ... only
the white
