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Front 1

The 1897 Dingley Tariff:

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raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.

Front 2

Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor?

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It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.

Front 3

Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?

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Theodore Roosevelt

Front 4

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?

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the American Federation of Labor

Front 5

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?

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Booker T. Washington

Front 6

What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?

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the Open Door policy

Front 7

The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves:

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Redeemers.

Front 8

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson

Front 9

“The splendid little war” of 1898 was:

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the Spanish-American War.

Front 10

Which of the following was not a major reason for America’s imperial expansion?

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a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures

Front 11

From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly:

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5,000.

Front 12

The “subtreasury plan” was:

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a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.

Front 13

In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives:

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the battleship Maine

Front 14

The 1892 presidential election was won by:

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Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.

Front 15

During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole:

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sank deeper and deeper into poverty.

Front 16

In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed?

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none

Front 17

Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

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a religious test

Front 18

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?

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Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Front 19

The nation’s urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because:

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Republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.

Front 20

The largest citizens’ movement of the nineteenth century was:

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the Farmers Alliance.

Front 21

The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was:

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Jacob Coxey.

Front 22

Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000–60,000 African Americans migrated to:

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Kansas.

Front 23

What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894?

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Pullman

Front 24

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

Front 25

The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was:

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the Readjuster movement.

Front 26

The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the “free coinage” of silver was:

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William Jennings Bryan.

Front 27

A leading opponent of American imperialism was

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William Jennings Bryan.

Front 28

What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson.

Front 29

Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South?

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a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone

Front 30

Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists?

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excessive power of the labor unions

Front 31

The Redeemers in the South:

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slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.

Front 32

Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century?

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political party organizations

Front 33

What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?

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Fong Yue Ting

Front 34

The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from

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China.

Front 35

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization:

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calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

Front 36

What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?

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the Philippine War

Front 37

The 1892 People’s Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party’s Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except:

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a decentralization over the control of currency.