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54 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor? |
unions should make it a priority to include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill |
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Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers’ Alliance and the Populists? |
excessive power of the labor unions |
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Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights? |
Booker T. Washington |
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What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China? |
the open door policy |
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During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole |
sank deeper and deeper into poverty |
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What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers? |
the american federation of labor |
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What 1893 U.S. Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law? |
Fong Yue ting |
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What was known as the “splendid little war” of 1898? |
the Spanish American War |
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In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives? |
the battleship Maine |
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The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves |
Redeemers |
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Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century? |
political party organization |
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? |
Kansas Exodus; Civil rights Cases, Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address, Plessy v. Gerguson |
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Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000–60,000 African-Americans migrated to |
Kansas |
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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization |
Calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote |
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The 1897 Dingley Tariff |
raised tariff rates to their highest level in american history up to the time |
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Who was the leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief? |
Jacob Caxey |
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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 |
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What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases? |
Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History |
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What landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks? |
Plessy vs. Ferguson |
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Who was a leading opponent of American imperialism? |
William Jennings Bryan |
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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 |
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Which was not one of the devices used by southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage? |
a religious text |
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In 1894, the nation’s urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party because |
republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods |
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Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists?
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using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause |
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From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly |
5000 |
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Which was the largest citizens’ movement of the nineteenth century? |
the Farmers' Alliance |
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What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894? |
Pullman |
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Who won the 1892 presidential election? |
Grover Cleveland, the Democrat |
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Which of the following was not a major reason for America’s imperial expansion? |
a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures |
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The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late-nineteenth-century America were those arriving from |
China |
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The “subtreasury plan” was |
a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold |
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What war lasted from 1899–1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished? |
the Philippine War |
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As the subordination of blacks grew more rigid, American attitudes toward immigrants grew more tolerant. T F |
FALSE |
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In the late nineteenth century, urban workers rallied in support of Populist farmers. |
FALSE |
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Southern Populists forged notable alliances between black and white farmers. |
TRUE |
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Turn-of-the-century segregation laws were passed in clear defiance of Supreme Court rulings. |
F |
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Only after Spain threatened to invade America did the United States elect to go to war. |
F |
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The 1890s saw a widespread imposition not only of disfranchisement, but also of segregation in the South. |
T |
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In the 1880s and 1890s, blacks no longer served in the U.S. Congress. |
F |
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Government intervention was vital to the defeats of the 1892 Homestead strike and the 1894 Pullman strike. |
T |
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Ironically, the Farmers’ Alliance found greater support among industrial workers than among small farmers. |
F |
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Segregation was more than a form of racial separation; it was one part of an all-encompassing system of white domination. |
T |
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With the exception of some dockworkers’ and mine laborers’ unions, blacks were excluded from membership in the few unions that existed in the South in the late nineteenth century. |
T |
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In 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the “grandfather clause” for violating the Fifteenth Amendment. |
T |
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The election of 1896 is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign, in part because of the amount of money spent—William McKinley raised some $10 million, while William Jennings Bryant raised only around $300,000. |
T |
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In a show of democratic solidarity on the part of the American people, the Farmers’ Alliance, especially in the southern states, welcomed black farmers into the Alliance. |
T |
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One consequence of the bitter attacks on African Americans’ political rights across the South was that by 1940, 97 percent of adult black Southerners were not registered to vote. |
T |
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An oversupply of cotton on the world market, which led to a sharp decline in prices, contributed to a farmers’ revolt and gave rise to the Populist Movement. |
T |
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Beginning in 1880, “new immigrants” were welcomed with open arms by the American people. |
F |
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Populists in western states endorsed woman suffrage. |
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Most Americans who looked to expand America’s influence overseas were interested not in territorial possessions, but in expanded trade. |
T |
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Like the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was infused with the social elitism of the times. |
T |
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Southern Democrats raised the threat of “black rule” to justify denying blacks the right to vote. |
T |
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In 1882 and again in 1902, the United States Congress passed laws excluding immigrants from China. |
T |
