APUSH Chapter 26 and 27 Test
Oliver H. Kelley
Considered the leading spirit in the formation of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry - better known as the Grange which was organized in 1867.
Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?
Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system
insurrectos
Cuban insurgents who sought freedom from colonial Spanish rule. Their destructive tactics threatened American economic interests in Cuban plantations and railroads.
The speech excerpted here focuses most significantly on the political debate over
Currency and monetary policy
Why was Admiral George Dewey's military position in Manila harbor precarious, even after the defeat of the Spanish navy?
He had no American land forces available to actually seize control of the Philippines. This answer is correct.
What can be inferred about the motivations for Roosevelt's actions in the Caribbean?
He wants financial profit.
Which of the following would NOT be an argument of the Anti-Imperialist League?
Imperialism hurt manufacturers' ability to obtain raw materials
How does this image depict Theodore Roosevelt's political views?
Individual national identities are of no concern to him.
Which of the following describes the policies and positions of the Republican Party in the election of 1896?
It endorsed the gold standard and asserted that government's function is to aid business.
Why was the Open Door important to the United States?
It ensured that the United States would have access to Chinese markets.
Which of the following statements about the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is true?
It gave the United States a free hand to build a canal in Central America.
Which of the following statements about the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is true?
It stipulated that the United States could intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations.
Which of the following describes the United States Army's performance in Cuba on a whole?
It was crippled by logistical chaos and disease that killed thousands of soldiers.
All of the following were true of the McKinley Tariff except:
Its lower rates went along with President Cleveland's anti-protectionist philosophy.
What does this image hold up as the most important part of the American economy?
Manual labor
The ideas of the Populist Party, as expressed in the excerpt, had the most in common with the ideas of the
Progressive movement
Josiah Strong
Protestant clergyman and author of Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (1885).
What did the Supreme Court declare with the Insular Cases?
Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were not afforded all American rights.
Which of the following actions illustrated the usage of the Monroe Doctrine in the second half of the nineteenth century?
The United States' arbitration in the Venezuelan boundary dispute with Britain.
All of the following were effects of mechanization of farm labor except:
The bonanza farms never attained the status of a factory.
This excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?
The debate over the role of government in the economy.
Foraker Act
The first comprehensive congressional effort to provide for governance of territories acquired after the Spanish-American War, it served as a model for a similar act adopted for the Philippines in 1902.
Which of the following is true of the Populist Party's beliefs? AP
The government needed to exercise more control over the economy.
The People's (Populist) Party emerged most directly in response to which of the following late-nineteenth-century trends?
The growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy
Jacob S. Coxey
The most famous of the "marchers" of the unemployed who made their way to Washington, D.C. in protest.
Which of the following statements about the Anti-Imperialist League is not true?
The organization gained strength after the annexation of the Philippines.
What is a reasonable conclusion that can be drawn from the image about farmers' view of bankers?
They are thieves.
Why did Secretary of State John Hay pen the Open Door notes?
To convince the great world powers to respect Chinese rights.
Seward's Folly refers to the
United States' purchase of Alaska.
Which leader's reported atrocities helped lead the United States to war with Spain during the end of the nineteenth century?
Valeriano Weyler
According to the image, what is the way in which foreign policy is being enforced?
Violently
Grover Cleveland
Was the only president to be re-elected after suffering a defeat.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Well-educated Filipino leader who first fought against Spain and later led the Philippine insurgency against U.S. colonial rule.
Dollar Diplomacy is most associated with the presidency of
William Taft
What can be inferred about the artist's view of American culture?
Women's role in the economy was negligible.
Tom Watson
A Georgia Populist leader who reached out to the black community to join the Populist Party by declaring, "There is no reason why a black man should not understand that the law that hurts me, as a farmer, hurts him, as a farmer."
Anti Imperialist League
All choices are correct.
Gentleman's Agreement
All choices are correct.
Great Rapprochment
All choices are correct.
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
All choices are correct.
James B. Weaver
All choices are correct.
James Blaine
All choices are correct.
John Peter Altgeld
All choices are correct.
Maine
All choices are correct.
Mechanization of Agriculture
All choices are correct.
Open Door Note
All choices are correct.
Pullman Strike
All choices are correct.
Valeriano "Butcher" Weyler
All choices are correct.
Well-educated Filipino leader who first fought against Spain and later led the Philippine insurgency against U.S. colonial rule.
All choices are correct.
William H. Taft
All choices are correct.
William Hope "Coin" Harvey
All choices are correct.
William Jennings Bryan
All choices are correct.
John Hay
All the choices are correct.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
American naval officer and author whose book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, impressed a generation of imperialists around the world with its argument that control of the sea was the key to world dominance.
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
An Ohioan businessman who had made his fortune in the iron industry and was now labeled with the role of a president maker.
Gold Standard Act
An act that guaranteed that paper currency would be redeemed freely in gold, putting an end to the already dying "free-silver" campaign.
The People's Party (Populist) advocated which of the following?
An increase in the money supply
Boxer Rebellion
An uprising in China directed against foreign influence or xenophobia.
Use the map to put the events in the following table in the correct chronological order. Consult the chapter if needed. A - First of the "Open Door" notes. B - Dewey's victory in the Philippines. C - Hawaiian monarchy overthrown. D - Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
C, B, D, A.
The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty allowed for the
construction of the Panama Canal.
The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's
cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
Which of the following ideas would NOT be part of the Roosevelt Corollary?
The Monroe Doctrine would be expanded to include Asia as well as the Americas.
Which political party would have most strongly supported the ideas expressed by Bryan in the excerpt?
The Populists
William McKinley
The Republican presidential candidate in the election of 1896. Promoted a protective tariff and the gold standard, even though his congressional record had been friendly toward silver.
Dupuy de Lome
The Spanish minister to the United States who found himself at the center of a scandal when his private letter maligning President McKinley was made public in 1898.
The cartoonist most likely supported
government policies favoring corporations
Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the
growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming
Queen Liliuokalani
he last reigning queen of Hawaii, whose defense of native Hawaiian self-rule led to a revolt by white settlers and her dethronement.
Following the Spanish-American War, Cuban independence was protected with the
passage of the Teller Amendment.
The focus of the 1907 Gentleman's Agreement was to
reduce the number of immigrants coming from Japan.
The Populist Party emerged out of a movement of
struggling farmers.
One factor that contributed to the grievances of the Populists was the
variability and decline in crop prices.
The quote "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war," illustrates what type of late nineteenth century journalism?
yellow journalism
Platt Amendment
Following its military occupation, the United States successfully pressured the Cuban government to write this amendment into its constitution. It limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled its debt, and stipulated that the United States could intervene militarily to restore order when it saw fit.
What term do scholars use to describe national politics from 1896 to 1932?
Fourth party system
Based on the map and the textbook, which of the following states did the Republicans NOT carry?
Georgia
Roosevelt Corallary
A brazen policy of "preventive intervention" advocated by Theodore Roosevelt in his Annual Message to Congress in 1904.
Big Sister Policy
A foreign policy of Secretary of State James G. Blaine aimed at rallying Latin American nations behind American leadership and opening Latin American markets to Yankee traders.
Teller Amendment
A proviso to President William McKinley's war plans that proclaimed to the world that when the United States had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom.
Grandfather Clause
A regulation established in many southern states in the 1890s that exempted from voting requirements (such as literacy tests and poll taxes) anyone who could prove that his ancestors ("grandfathers") had been able to vote in 1860.
Homestead Strike
A strike at he Carnegie steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, that ended in an armed battle between the strikers, three hundred armed Pinkerton detectives hired by Carnegie, and federal troops , which killed killed ten people and wounded more than sixty. This answer is correct.
Fourth Party System
A term scholars have used to describe politics from 1896 tom 1932, when Republicans had a tight grip on the White House and issues such as industrial regulation and labor concerns became paramount, replacing older concerns such as civil-service reform and monetary policy.
Secretary of State James G. Blaine introduces the Big Sister policy and holds the first Pan-American Conference.
Before
Insular Cases
Beginning in 1901, a badly divided Supreme Court decreed in these cases that the Constitution did not follow the flag. In other words, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos would not necessarily enjoy all American rights.
The cartoon suggests that the disparate groups that favored the People's (Populist) Party typically shared which of the following?
Belief in a stronger federal government role in the United States economic system
What were the terms of President Roosevelt's "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan?
Californians would repeal an order to segregate Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students and Japan would stop the flow of immigrants to the American mainland.
George Dewey
Commander of the American Asiatic Squadron who boldly captured Manila Bay and the Philippines at the launch of the Spanish-American War. His actions ultimately led to fierce debates about the propriety of American imperialism.
What did the least organized—and therefore most exploited—sector of the late nineteenth century economy consist of?
Farmers
What were the deepest economic problems faced by most western farmers in the late nineteenth century?
Deflation and lower prices for their products.
All of the following are true of the election of 1896 except:
Democrats were led by the sitting president.
True or False: The Democrats' overwhelming victory in the election of 1896 signaled the beginning of a new era in American politics, including the party's tight grip on the presidency for much of the next thirty-six years.
False
Eugene Victor Debs
None of the choices are correct.
McKinley Tariff
None of the choices are correct.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
None of the choices are correct.
The Republican Party was more popular in which of the following regions?
Northeast
Populists
Officially known as the People's Party, the Populists represented the Westerners and Southerners who believed that U.S. Economic policy inappropriately favored Eastern businessmen intead of the nation's farmers. Their proposals included the nationalization of the railroads, a grduated income tax, and most significantly, the unlimited coinage of silver.
Richard Olney
Olney stirred up conflict with Great Britain during the Venezuelan crisis of 1895-1896.
Rough Riders
Organized by Theodore Roosevelt, this was a colorful, motley regiment of Cuban war volunteers consisting of western cowboys, ex-convicts, and effete Ivy Leaguers. Roosevelt emphasized his experience with the regiment in subsequent campaigns for governor of New York and vice president under William McKinley.
Which of the following groups included the passage above in its platform?
People's Party (Populists)
Which of the following movements expressed ideas most similar to the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
Populism in the 1890s and early 1900s
What role did the United States play in the Venezuelan border dispute?
President Cleveland invoked the Monroe Doctrine.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Referred to as the queen of the Populist "calamity howlers."
What was the 1894 Pullman strike ended by?
Sending in federal troops to crush it.
Faced with a magnetic Democratic opponent in 1896, the Republicans' strategy to win the White House included all of the following elements except:
Sending their candidate across the country to speak directly to the people.
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the Populist Party?
Sharecroppers