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Jane Addams
A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was
growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming
Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the
A mixed economy no longer primarily dependent on cash crops
After the Civil War, some businesspeople and newspaper editors—such as the Atlanta Constitution's Henry Grady—promoted the idea of a New South. Which of the following best describes their vision for the southern states?
dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering
All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants
was financed by private corporations without government assistance
All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that it
federal recognition of American Indian land claims
All of the following contributed to the decline of open-range cattle ranching at the end of the nineteenth century EXCEPT
the implementation of Booker T. Washington's program for Black progress
All of the following were objectives of W.E.B. DuBois EXCEPT
labor unions
Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of business monopolies, courts initially used its provisions successfully against
Wealthy individuals have a duty to return their fortunes to society.
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth endorsed which of the following views?
finance philanthropic endeavors
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth was based on the belief that wealthy industrialists should use their wealth to
A hope held by some in government that American Indians would adopt lifestyles similar to the lifestyles of White settlers
Article 6 of the treaty most likely reflected which of the following sentiments?
vertical integration
At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to
limit production of crops
Between 1870 and 1900, farmers did all of the following in an attempt to better their condition EXCEPT
Black northerners
During the Gilded Age, which of the following groups generally voted Republican?
restrictive housing covenants
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, southern state governments used all of the following methods to restrict African American freedoms EXCEPT
Educated middle-class women
During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?
The western frontier had land that could be distributed to former slaves.
Frederick Jackson Turner's theory emphasized the significance of the frontier for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
break up tribal landholdings
From the 1880's to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant American Indian policy of the United Stated government sought to
assimilate them into White culture
From the 1880s to the New Deal, the dominant United States government policy toward American Indians was to try to
European farms and villages
Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from
Support for African American self-help
In his Atlanta Compromise speech, Booker T. Washington called for which of the following?
the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas
In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that
an increase in acres under civilization
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American agriculture was characterized by
discriminatory freight rates
In the late nineteenth-century United States, farmers sought federal relief from distress caused by
low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to
northern industrial interests
In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored
immigrants
Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to
Sharecroppers from the South
Members of which of the following groups were most likely to support the Populist Party?
conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society
Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that
proposal that African Americans emphasize making economic progress over the quest for political and social equality
The "Atlanta Compromise" is the name given to the
consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies
The "temporary unequal distribution of wealth" that Carnegie refers to in the excerpt resulted most directly from the
Upheld segregated railroad facilities.
The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?
Divided Native American tribal lands into individual holdings.
The Dawes Act (1887) did which of the following?
distress over loss of tribal autonomy
The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious movement associated with
American Indians' distress over loss of tribal authority
The Ghost Dance, a religious movement that developed in the late nineteenth century, emerged from which of the following?
The growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy
The People's (Populist) Party emerged most directly in response to which of the following late-nineteenth-century trends?
An increase in the money supply
The People's Party (Populist) advocated which of the following?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka directly contradicted the legal principle established by
Sanctioned separate but equal public facilities for African Americans.
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) did which of the following?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka essentially reversed which of the following earlier Court decisions?
Bolstered American commercial interests in China.
The United States Open Door policy in Asia did which of the following?
an African American journalist in the 1890s
The author of the statement above was
municipal corruption
The cartoon above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century
Belief in a stronger federal government role in the United States economic system
The cartoon suggests that the disparate groups that favored the People's (Populist) Party typically shared which of the following?
government policies favoring corporations
The cartoonist most likely supported
Many American farmers struggled financially.
The chart above supports which of the following conclusions regarding economic conditions in the United States during the last third of the nineteenth century?
claims to land
The conflict between the Sioux nation and the United States was primarily driven by differing
Strengthened the position of big business.
The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the following?
periodic economic panic and depression
The era from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War was characterized by
Progressive movement
The ideas of the Populist Party, as expressed in the excerpt, had the most in common with the ideas of the
assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture
The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to
draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor
The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to
Midwest and Northeast
The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the
relied on the use of power-driven machinery
The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that
cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's
Social Darwinism
The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?
Booker T. Washington
The statement above expressed the ideas of
Link union membership with patriotic and religious images
The union membership card pictured above is designed to accomplish which of the following?
African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality
W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed
Restrictive congressional legislation
Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?
Its policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen
Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American Federation of Labor in organizing labor in the late 1800s?
Wealthy individuals should use their wealth for social betterment.
Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth?
Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system
Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?
The destruction of nearly the entire population of buffalo
Which of the following contributed to reducing the conflict that article 11 and similar provisions of other treaties were designed to address?
People's Party (Populists)
Which of the following groups included the passage above in its platform?
Sharecroppers
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the Populist Party?
Midwestern farmers
Which of the following groups would most likely agree with the quote above?
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Niagara movement
Which of the following had integration rather than Black separatism as a goal?
It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.
Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
The American Federation of Labor
Which of the following labor organizations endorsed the philosophy of "bread and butter" unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved work conditions?
The transformation of the United States into an industrial society
Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
Which of the following most directly supports Blight's argument in the excerpt?
Chinese and Irish
Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?
Laissez-faire economics
Which of the following policies would Carnegie most likely have supported?
The only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi.
Which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true?
Dorothea Dix
Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women's rights?
They were mainly female.
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?
American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land.
Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 ?
It was involved in a number of violent strikes.
Which of the following was true of the American labor movement in the late nineteenth century?
Landowners widely adopted sharecropping and tenant farming.
Which of the following was true of the South in the post-Civil War period?
They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women.
Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
They usually lasted a short time before being broken by settlers' incursions onto American Indian reservations.
Which of the following was typical of agreements such as the Fort Laramie Treaty between the United States government and American Indians in the post-Civil War West?
advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was primarily an expression of his
