HIST 12 - CH 16 REVIEW QUIZ
(Question 15, Q037) In what year did Congress grant citizenship to all Native Americans?
1924.
(Question 16, Q040) With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
False
(Question 18, Q042) The West was a remarkably homogeneous region--only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.
False
(Question 20, Q054) American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.
False
(Question 9, Q024) What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
Knights of Labor
(Question 14, Q034) Which of the following were sources of violence in America during the Gilded Age?(THIS MAY BE THE INCORRECT ONE)
Mormon arson attacks against the federal military installations
(Question 13, Q032) In Wabash v Illinois, this prior ruling was essentially reversed
Munn v. Illinois
(Q001) this poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?
Statue of Liberty
(Question 17, Q041) By 1890, the majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.
True
(Question 19, Q053) By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
True
(Question 12, Q031) In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from
a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold, but what lies beneath is of little value
(Question 10, Q027) Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?
a pan-Indian movement which involved singing, dancing, and religious observances (believed to be reminiscent of earlier prophets- not in the answer in the quiz)
(Question 4, Q010) Which of the following is a major factor in the creation of a rapid and profound economic revolution in the United States after the civil war?
abundant natural resources
(Question 11, Q030) William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was
an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians
(Question 7, Q018) In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United Stats was
disproportionate, as the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent
(Question 8, Q019) The 1887 Dawes Act
led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions
(Question 6, Q016) The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of
removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways"
(Question 3, Q004)Elk v Wilkins (1884) Stated that
the rights guaranteed by the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments, did not apply to American Indians
(Question 5, Q011) By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?
one-third
(Question 2) (Q003) Founded in 1867, this group claimed more than 700,000 members in the mid-1870's, who called on state governments to establish fair freight rates and warehouse charges
the Grange
