american yawp 16 & 18 quiz

12. Why were southerners unable to maintain unity in the People's Party?

b. Racial conflict

15. Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Kate Chopin

15. The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth

-Elected over 1,000 candidates to American political offices - Gained over 150,000 registered members - Garnered nearly one million votes for Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs in 1912

11. What did the Populists propose in the Omaha Platform?

-Nationalizing the country's railroad and telegraph systems to ensure that essential services would be run in the best interests of the people -Establishment of a network of federally-managed warehouses—called subtreasuries—which would extend government loans to farmers . -Promoted an inflationary monetary policy by monetizing silver

10. What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?

-Poll taxes -. Literacy tests -Violence and intimidation

From 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were murdered by white mobs

5,000

. By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?

60%

11. What was the Lost Cause?

A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.

Britain b. France c. Germany d. All of the above combined

2. How did railroads transform the American economy?

Inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class

14. Which of the following statements regarding "muscular Christianity" are true:

Motivated by a fear that the country had become a nation of emasculated men - Sought to stiffen young men's' backbones by putting them in touch with their primal manliness - Built summer camps and gymnasiums where young American men could strengthen their bodies and spirits

6. Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?

State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak

13. What was the "tainted money debate?"

The decision whether the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions would accept a large donation by John D. Rockefeller

7. All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT

They sought to move away from the South's dependence on cotton, believing that agricultural diversification would lead to economic development

2. What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

a. Agriculture

1. In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?

a. Chicago

6. Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?

a. Democratic Party

8. Which of the following groups was the most radical?

a. Knights of Labor

Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?

a. McKinley had greater support in the population dense northeast

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

a. Rotary clubs

10. Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?

a. Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains

A wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?

a. United States Steel

7. Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?

b. Haymarket Affair

wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

b. Ida B. Wells

13. Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

c. He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

2. What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?

c. The adoption of interchangeable parts

3. Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities

d. 1920

9. The final two decades of the nineteenth century saw over _________ strikes and lockouts

d. 20,000

5. By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps _______ percent of the nation's wealth.

d. 90%

1. Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?

d. Industrial production