Hist 1302 Exam 1 Give Me Liberty
How did racial segregation in the labor market affect African-American women
A high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic services
All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true except
Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance
Which was the Ellis Island of the West
Angel Island
What was the most significant difference between Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and Ellis Island in the New York harbor
Angel's Island primary goal was to keep out unwanted Chinese immigrants, whereas Ellis Island sent relatively few immigrants back
Which event marked the end of the Indian wars
Battle of Wounded Knee
Angel Island was where most Mexican immigrants entered the United States
False
Looking Backward was the first book to popularize socialist ideas for and American audience
False
Once in office, Woodrow Wilson was a fierce trustbuster, dismantling more that twenty monopolies
False
Why did progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World
Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation
Why was William Twee so popular with the city's immigrant poor
He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes
In the early twentieth century, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay became known as the "Ellis Island of the West" and served as the main entry point for immigrants from
Japan
All of the following measures expanded democracy during the progressive era except
Literacy tests and residency requirements
The progressive interest in addressing political corruption had much to do with the success of
Mass-circulation magazines
The Women's Christian Temperance Union
Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's sufferage
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Progressive reformers
Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism
Which of the following contradictions plagued progressive reforms' ideas on the political process
They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures
Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor
Restricted membership to only skilled workers
In contrast to the expansion of the 1890's, U.S. interest in Alaska originated in a desire for
Territory
President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds except
The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy
Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American war
The United States would have been barred from annexing the archipelago
Which of the following properly assess the significance of the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890
The law established a precedent that the national government could regulate the economy in the interest of the public good
Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age
They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitiors
Credit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring
Were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration
Which statement about the 1896 election is false
William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard
Elk v. Wilkins (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments did not apply to Indians
True
Lochner v. New York voided a state law establishing ten hours per day, or sixty hours per week, as the maximum hours of work for bakers, claiming that infringed on individual freedom
True
The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection-Act
Upton Sinclair
Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required and equalization of wealth and power and that unbridled competition mocked the Christian ideal of brotherhood
Walter Rauschenbusch
The Ghost Dance
Was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites
Jane Adams
advocated for the working poor
Elk v. Wilkins
agreed with lower court rulings that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments did not apply to Indians
The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910
as a was of describing a loosely defined political movement
The election of 1896
is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign
Which of the following provides evidence for the remarkable community organization efforts of the Populist Party
its more than 1,00 local newspapers
Most new immigrants arrived during the early years of the twentieth century
lived in close-knit communities
The Progressive movement drew its strength from
middle-class reformers
Henry George rejected the traditional equation of liberty with
ownership of land
In Our Country from 1885, Josiah Strong predicted which of the following
shortage of land
how did the legal instrument of contract help turn the philosophy of free labor into a tool for exploitation
the idea of contract implied an agreement between free and equal individuals, but the reality of industrial employment was far different
In 1883, divided the nation into the four time zones still used today
the major railroad companies
Chinese demands for equal rights forced the supreme court to define the reach of the fourteenth amendment
true
Socialism had made such inroads in popularity that by 1914 the U.S. Congress had a socialist representative
ture
The Philippine War
was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War
The Haymaker Affair
was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally
What did Andrew Carnegie identify as society biggest challenge in the late nineteenth century in his 1889 essay The Gospel of Wealth
wealth administration
One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was
frequent and prolonged economic depressions
During the "Age of Empire", American racial attitudes
had a global impact
A cause not widely championed by progressives was
civil rights for blacks
Which statement about the People's Party is false
It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform
The new immigrants
came from southern and eastern Europe