History Exam 1
Which of the following individuals was a muckraker?
Upton Sinclair.
The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896 and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was
William Jennings Bryan.
Who was the leader of the National Woman's Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of women's suffrage?
Alice Paul
What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese immigrants without due process of law?
Fong Yue Ting v. United States
Which of the following is attributed to Louis D. Brandeis?
He felt the foremost social problem in America was the contradiction between political liberty and industrial slavery.
What port did the United States want to continue to possess as a naval base, which motivated it in part to annex the Hawaiian islands in the 1890s?
Pearl Harbor
This political and social group promoted agricultural education and believed farmers should adopt modern scientific methods of cultivation.
Populists
In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among
African-Americans.
In November 1917, during World War I, a communist revolution broke out in what country?
Russia
Which of the following were sources of violence in America during the Gilded Age?
White supremacist southern attacks on African Americans
The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was
William M. Tweed
In her influential book, Woman and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman reinforced this idea.
Woman's freedom lay through the workplace rather than only the domestic scene.
The event marking the end of four centuries of armed conflict between the continent's native population and European settlers and their descendants was called
Wounded Knee
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.
In 1903, for the first time in U.S. history, Congress passed a law declaring that a person holding a specific political viewpoint could be banned from entering the nation. These were the
anarchists.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act
Who benefitted the most from the Wassaja newsletter?
future American activists
From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T automobile approximately
halved.
In the late 1800s, this geographic area experienced the most dramatic growth in capitalism.
land west of the Mississippi River
Which of the following was one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?
literacy tests
What did Prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919) prohibit?
manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages
Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as
muckrakers.
The 1897 Dingley Tariff
raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.
During the 1880s, the South as a region
sank deeper and deeper into poverty.
The Redeemers in the South
slashed state budgets and reduced spending on public schools.
In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
steel
Which of the following was an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?
telephone
The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism was avoided was
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Elk v. Wilkins (1884) stated that
the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to American Indians.
Prohibition was appealing from a government standpoint because
while brief, the Eighteenth Amendment unified the country behind a common Progressive cause.
The 1887 Dawes Act
led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.
Which of the following was a military technology used during World War I?
airplanes
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was
an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians
The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late-nineteenth-century America were those arriving from
China
The author of How the Other Half Lives (1890) was
Jacob Riis.
Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000-60,000 African-Americans migrated to
Kansas.
The new agricultural empire producing wheat and corn for national and international markets arose in the
Middle Border.
The poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?
Statue of Liberty
Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?
Theodore Roosevelt
The Committee on Public Information (CPI) flooded the country with prowar propaganda, describing Germany as
a nation of barbaric Huns.
The "subtreasury plan" was
a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.
The United States entered World War I in April of 1917 only after Germany resumed submarine warfare against its ships in the Atlantic and
after discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram.
What were critics of immigration worried about during this time period?
declining birth rate among white women
Between 1900 and 1904 membership in the American Federation of Labor
exploded to triple their earlier membership numbers.
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Which of the following U.S. government policies arose from the eugenics movement?
the increase of immigration restriction
Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production known as
the moving assembly line.
In Buck v. Bell (1927), the Supreme Court
upheld the constitutionality of involuntarily sterilizing insane and "feeble-minded" people to prevent the gene from passing to the next generation.
