APUSH Unit 7
Which of the following would have been most likely to support the presidential campaign of William Jennings Bryan in 1896?
A Kansas farmer
During the late 19th Century, "open range" ranching existed in areas where ranchers
Allowed their cattle to graze on public lands
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American agriculture was characterized by
An increase in acres under cultivation
All of the following were considered legitimate functions of the federal government in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT
Assuring the welfare of the poor and unemployed
During the late 19th Century, the increase in population due to the New Immigration spurred the growth of
Catholic parochial schools
Between 1880 and 1900, the number of women who worked as
Clerks increased substantially
In 1890 the most important source of revenue for the federal government was
Customs taxes/duties
The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's
Cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
All of the following examples of popular literature were products of the second half of the 19th Century EXCEPT:
Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes
The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to
Expand their commercial and mercantile network
During the late 19th Century, vertical integration specifically allowed businesses to
Expand their control over production and distribution as well as manufacturing
During the last quarter of the 19th Century, the most significant source of population growth in American cities was
Immigration from abroad
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville described the growth of an aristocracy in the United States based on
Industrial wealth
Hardships endured by farm families who settled on the Great Plains during the 1870s and 1880s included all of the following EXCEPT
Interference by the federal government
Which of the following 19th Century labor organizations had a firm policy accepting black workers as members?
International Workers of the World
The American Renaissance is a phenomenon best described as
Literary
In 1894, President Cleveland sent United States troops to Chicago to end a strike at the Pullman Palace Car Company, citing the responsibility of the federal government specifically to
Protect the mail
During the last quarter of the 19th Century, Americans show business flourished in all of the following mediums EXCEPT:
Radio
In the late nineteenth-century controversy over the social and religious implications of Darwinian theory, all of the following popular beliefs were felt to be threatened by Darwin EXCEPT the
Reality of change in the world
During the last quarter of the 19th Century, all of the following sports were popular EXCEPT:
Soccer
The Social Gospel movement of the late 19th Century emphasized
Social responsibility as a means to salvation
Which of the following statements is true about immigration to the United States during the last two decades of the nineteenth century?
Southern and Eastern Europeans came in larger numbers than earlier in the century.
One of the most important long-term political activities of the Daughters of the Liberty was
Spinning their own cloth
In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court
Struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875
During the late 19th Century, the nation's major cities demonstrated all of the following EXCEPT:
The expansion of most cities was carefully planned
Of the following, which was the most importance cause of agrarian discontent in the Unites States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?
The feeling that the railroads were exploiting the farmers.
The Civil Service movement of the 1880s was designed specifically to challenge
The spoils system
The anti-combination laws passed by numerous states in the late 1880's were a response to which of the following organizational innovations?
The use of stockholding trusts to create business oligopolies
Which of the following was true of most Puritans who emigrated to seventeenth-century New England?
They considered themselves non-Separatists