US History Study

Which of the following expressions described the Republican's use of their role in the Civil War in their political rhetoric?

"Waving the bloody shirt"

According to the lesson, the term laissez-faire is French for

"leave it alone"

The violent ____________ in Chicago led to the demise of the __________ of Labor, a powerful national labor union.

-Haymarket Affair -Knights

Which of the following modern-day states experienced mining booms after the discovery of silver or gold? [choose all that apply]

-Idaho -Colorado -California

Which of the following was part of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. E. C. Knight Company? [Choose all that apply.]

-The Supreme Court declared a graduated income tax unconstitutional. -The Supreme Court stated that manufacturing was beyond the reach of Federal regulation because it was not technically commerce.

Which of the following is true of the Compromise of 1877? [choose all that apply]

-it signaled the end of Reconstruction since Republican governments collapsed and white Democrats gained control of the South -Rutherford B. Hayes became President -there was an agreement to pull military support out of the South

The market for beef in the early nineteenth century was underwhelming, but Texans still maintained cattle ranches for _________ and __________, animal fat used for the production of candles and soap.

-leather -tallow

Supporters of the ruling class of lawyers, merchants, businessmen, and planters in the South called them ___________ while their detractors refereed to them as ____________ .

-redeemers -Bourbons

Which of the following inventions are attributed to Thomas A. Edison? [choose all that apply]

-the motion picture camera -the electric motor -the phonograph -the storage battery

Who were the primary targets of the KKK in the South during Reconstruction? [choose all that apply]

-white Republicans -African-Americans

By the end of the nineteenth century, what percentage of whites in the South were not able to read?

11

According to the lesson, about how many unskilled urban workers lost their jobs in a matter of months after the start of the Depression of 1893?

25 percent

According to the lesson, approximately how many African-Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?

300,000

According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?

84

Which of the following individual is famous for inventing the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

Which of the following Southern cities became the largest producer of coal and steel in the South?

Birmingham, Alabama

Which of the following became the champion of a position known as the Atlanta Compromise?

Booker T. Washington

Which of the following was the greatest contributing factor in the defeat of William Jennings Bryan in the Election of 1896?

Bryan failed to appeal to immigrants and working poor in the Midwest.

Grover ______________, the nominee of the Democrat Party won the election of 1892, though Populists gained a significant portion of the popular vote.

Cleveland

In the 1870s, Democrats in the South reorganized the party platform as a _______________ movement.

Conservative

In 1868, a conservative resurgence known collectively as ___________ _________________ began in earnest in the South in 1868.

Counter Reconstruction

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Civil Service Commission, established in 1883?

Ensure that all federal jobs be appointed by a merit system.

Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?

Germany

Which of the following was the only Democratic Party candidate to win the Presidency between 1869 and 1914?

Grover Cleveland

Which of the following best describes President Cleveland's response to labor strikes in his second term?

He opposed them, sometimes with force.

Charles Guiteau, a mentally deranged man disgruntled over having been refused a Federal job, assassinated which of the following US. Presidents?

James A. Garfield

Which of the following built the American Tobacco Company, which came to control 75 percent of all tobacco manufacturing by 1904?

James B. Duke

Which of the following led the Republican "Half-Breeds" and was the Republican nominee for President in 1884?

James Gillespie Blaine

Laws that discriminated against blacks in the South became known as _______ ________ laws after the name of a derogatory black character in a famous minstrel show.

Jim Crow

Which of the following individuals became the Presidential nominee of the Gold Democrats?

John M. Palmer

According to the lesson, Thomas Edison's most important invention was the __________________.

Lightbulb

The notion that belligerent Northerners had wrecked the dream of Southern prosperity became known as the "_________ Cause" in the South.

Lost

Which of the following individuals coined the term "Gilded Age?"

Mark Twain

When white terrorists started race riots in this state in 1875, President Grant refused to send federal troops to restore order, marking the end of the military component of Reconstruction:

Mississippi

Which of the following individuals founded the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867, which later spawned the Granger Movement?

Oliver H. Kelley

According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?

Pennsylvania

___________ taxes limited the voting rights of black Southerners by requiring citizens to pay a fee in order to vote.

Poll

Most black Southerners who held public office in the 1880s were members of the ____________ Party.

Republican

Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the "Granger laws," established by members of the Granger Movement after 1874?

Set maximum prices for transporting and storing farmers' produce

_________________ was an agricultural system whereby a farm laborer worked someone else's land in return for supplies and a portion of the crop he produced.

Sharecropping

Which of the following eventually became the nation's largest labor union, reaching its peak at four million members in 1920?

The American Federation of Labor

Eugene V. Debs, who led the following labor union, played a key role in the Pullman Strike?

The American Railway Union

What was the main persuasive goal of the "Cross of Gold" Speech?

The Federal government should allow the unlimited coinage of silver.

Which of the following best describes most Americans' view of the Federal government during the Gilded Age?

The Federal government was insignificant in most Americans' lives.

Laws that disenfranchised blacks violated or circumvented which Constitutional Amendment?

The Fourteenth Amendment

Democrats in which of the following regions were the most aggressive advocates of the unlimited coinage of silver?

The West

According to the lesson, the Depression of 1893, brought the most harm to which of the following groups?

Western Farmers

Which of the following individuals created a powerful political machine in New York City and was known for using corrupt police to maintain control?

William Tweed

In the Election of 1880, the Democratic Party nominated this former Union general hoping his nomination would distance themselves from secessionism and the Confederacy?

Winfield Scott Hancock

Which of the following best describes a holding company?

a company that holds a significant amount of stock in several other companies within the same industry, which it is then able to control

Political machines in Northeastern cities were more closely associated with the _______________ Party.

democratic

_____________ _______________ formed in the 1870s as a direct outgrowth of the Granger Movement. These organizations allowed farmers to cooperate in order to gain better prices for their produce, better loans, and lower freight rates.

farmers' alliances

Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?

government generally did not interfere with business

What was the name of the mining technique that used high pressure water cannons to break away hillsides and reveal valuable minerals?

hydraulic mining

According to the lesson, which of the following provided the greatest source of new workers in the American economy during the Gilded Age?

immigration from Europe and China

Though he was involved in several industries, J.P. Morgan first acquired his wealth through which of the following?

investment banking

Which of the following was NOT one of the provisions of the Enforcement Acts passed in response to the rise of the KKK?

one made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to life, liberty, and property

In The Search for __________________, Robert H. Wiebe argued that American's values changed dramatically as the nation entered the modern era in the Gilded Age

order

The National Labor Union was more focused on ____________________ change than on bargaining with big business.

political

In 1887, during Grover Cleveland's first term, Congress passed legislation to create the Interstate Commerce Commission, which was tasked with regulating the ___________ industry.

railroad

In the Election of 1876, both the Republicans and Democrats favored

relaxing radical Reconstruction policies and a return of state rule in the South

Northeastern workers threw their support to the ______________ Party in the Election of 1896 in one of the most dramatic changes to voter alignment in the nation's history.

republican

In 1893, President Cleveland convinced Congress to repeal the Sherman _____________ Purchase Act, which led to the rise of the _____________ Democrats to oppose Cleveland's actions. [one word will answer both blanks]

silver

Western farmers and ranchers were upset with the government in 1890 when they raised the _____________ rate, which led to a steep decline of beef and crop exports.

tariff

Between 1880 and 1900, the South surpassed New England as the largest producer in which of the following industries?

textiles

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following US Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?

the Department of Justice

The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.

time

Which of the following remained one of the most important crops in Virginia and the upper South after the Civil War?

tobacco

Which of the following is true of most American workers' wages between 1860 and 1890?

wages generally rose

Which of the following best describes the predominant social make-up of most boom towns?

young single men