Deck 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

Question 1

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Chester Arthur

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Democratic party

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Question 3

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Convict-lease system

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Question 4

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Grange, Oliver H. Kelley

Question 5

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Benjamin Harrison

Question 6

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James Garfield

Question 7

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Republican party

Question 8

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Greenback party

Question 9

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McKinley Tariff

Question 10

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 11

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Populist party

Question 12

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Voter participation (late 19^th century)

Question 13

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Literacy tests, poll taxes, property requirements

Question 14

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Farmers' alliance movement, Charles W. Macune

Question 15

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Subtreasury Plan

Question 16

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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Question 17

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Wabash v. Illinois , Interstate Commerce Act

Question 18

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Grover Cleveland

Question 19

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Laissez-faire

Question 20

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Mugwumps

Question 21

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William McKinley

Question 22

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U.S. battleship Maine

Question 23

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Clara Barton

Question 24

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Liliuokalani

Question 25

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William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold"

Question 26

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Lynching

Question 27

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Hawaii annexation

Question 28

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William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, and yellow journalism

Question 29

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Alfred T. Mahan

Question 30

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Women Christian Missionaries

Question 31

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Jacob Coxey

Question 32

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Panic of 1893 and Depression of 1893-1897

Question 33

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Booker T. Washington

Question 34

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 35

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Samoan Islands

Question 36

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Civil Rights Cases

Question 37

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Free silver

Question 38

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Election of 1892

Question 39

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Spanish-American War

Question 40

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Currency Act of 1900

Question 41

Why was the 1892 election significant to U.S. history?

A) Theodore Roosevelt won his first presidential term.
B) The Populist Party showed it was a potential threat to the Republican and Democratic Parties
C) The election led to the end of Reconstruction
D) Black Americans voted in a presidential election for the first time
E) Southerners voted for the Republican Party in their largest numbers since before the Civil War

Question 42

How did Josiah Strong influence American imperialism at the end of the 19^th century?

A) He argued that the United States had to gain revenge against Spain for the sinking of the Maine .
B) He stressed that the United States had an obligation to assist colonies in gaining their independence.
C) He emphasized that the United States had to acquire an empire in order to compete with other powers.
D) He asserted that the United States had a moral responsibility to civilize other, weaker races.
E) He claimed that the United States had to establish colonies for black Americans in order to reduce racial tensions.

Question 43

Why did the federal government during the late nineteenth century tend to ignore the social consequences of industrialization?

A) Local party bosses refused federal government assistance.
B) Congressmen believed only the president had the constitutional authority to regulate societal issues.
C) Americans believed that volunteer Christian organizations should take care of societal problems.
D) Most American leaders, regardless of party, believed in the laissez-faire doctrine and did not support a large governmental role in the economy.
E) Most leaders believed in communism's focus on individual decision making and not government directed policy.

Question 44

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Platt amendment

Question 45

What did the civil-service reformers of the late 1870s and early 1880s want?

A) a government bureaucracy that would help free immigrants from poverty.
B) a professional civil service based on merit and staffed by gentlemen.
C) a federal law that would appoint Roscoe Conkling director of government personnel.
D) laws that would help to sustain the dignity of the federal civil service.
E) individual contributions to a political campaign capped at $500.

Question 46

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Anti-Imperialist League

Question 47

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Guerrilla War in the Philippines

Question 48

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Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Question 49

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Tammany Hall, William "Magear" Tweed

Question 50

Which of the following statements is not true concerning the 1884 presidential campaign?

A) Mugwumps bolted from the Republican party.
B) Cleveland admitted he had fathered an illegitimate child.
C) A clergyman denounced Democrats as the party of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion."
D) The Republicans nominated a candidate who "wallowed in spoils like a rhinoceros in an African pool."
E) The Democrats nominated a candidate who had soiled his reputation as governor of New York by supporting Tammany Hall, the corrupt New York City political machine.

Question 51

Which two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?

A) The money supply and civil-service reform
B) civil-service reform and working conditions in factories
C) the money supply and urban slums
D) civil-service reform and imperialism
E) imperial expansion and immigration

Question 52

What did the Pendleton Act do?

A) It established a civil-service commission to prepare competitive exams for federal jobs.
B) It required the use of silver as well as gold to back paper currency.
C) It started the policy of having separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
D) It raised tariff rates.
E) It gave Congress the power to investigate and oversee railroad activities.

Question 53

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Buffalo soldiers

Question 54

Who became famous for the "Cross of Gold" speech in the 1896 presidential election?

A) William Jennings Bryan
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) William McKinley
D) Eugene V. Debs
E) theodore Roosevelt

Question 55

Which of the following groups is properly paired with its position on limiting or expanding the money supply?

A) Urban workers: limit, because it would increase their buying power by making each dollar worth more
B) Bankers: limit, because it would create economic stability
C) Southern and western farmers: restrict, because they wanted to make it easier to pay off their debts
D) Creditors: expand, because then there would be more money to lend.
E) None of these choices

Question 56

Which of the following statements accurately describes voter participation during the late nineteenth century?

A) It was generally very high ¾ usually from 80 percent up to 95 percent.
B) It was generally low because the major political parties were not discussing real issues.
C) It varied from election to election ¾ sometimes very high, sometimes very low.
D) It was very high on the local level but very low on the national level.
E) It was very high on the national level but very low on the local level.

Question 57

Where was the Democratic party strongest in the late 19^th century?

A) South
B) Upper Midwest
C) New England
D) West Coast
E) Great Plains

Question 58

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 59

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
P olitical machine, machine politics

Question 60

How did William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer change the newspaper industry?

A) They set the precedent for accurately reporting stories in their respective newspapers
B) They competed for readers by writing sensationalized stories that captured the reader's attention.
C) They reformed the newspaper business by eliminating corruption.
D) They introduced new printing techniques that eliminated the yellow color of newspapers.
E) They no longer permitted their papers to represent one specific political party, and instead, focused on providing unbiased reporting.

Question 61

What did Southern Alliance leader Charles Macune argue?

A) The federal government was to establish a series of branch banks to hold federal deposits and help to control the money supply.
B) Late-nineteenth-century American capitalists attempted to corner all the silver that was held outside the federal treasury.
C) Farmers should be able to store crops in government warehouses and then borrow against those crops until prices rose.
D) Farmers should "raise less corn and more hell."
E) The federal government should provide special agricultural loans from a fund created out of grain excise taxes.

Question 62

In the 1892 election, what happened to the Populist party?

A) It became the first "third party" in American history to win the presidency.
B) It received over one million votes across the nation.
C) It won by a large margin in New England and the traditionally Republican farm regions of the Midwest.
D) It swept every state of the former Confederacy.
E) It failed to elect its candidate for president, but received more votes than the Republican candidate.

Question 63

Which was not a reason why American confidence in the gold standard weakened in the 1890s?

A) British investors had sold millions of dollars' worth of stock in American railroads and converted their dollars to gold, draining U.S. gold reserves.
B) Vast quantities of gold were flowing into the country from newly-opened mines in the Klondike.
C) Congress's lavish veterans' benefits had reduced government resources
D) Tariff revenues were dropping because of the high McKinley Tariff
E) The government had to pay for its monthly silver purchases with treasury certificates redeemable for either silver or gold, further drained gold reserves

Question 64

Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?

A) Some Populists wanted to build an interracial movement and tried to defend the rights of blacks.
B) Most southern populists were anti-black.
C) The white elite tried to inflame agrarian racism and stimulate urban black sentiment against agrarian radicalism.
D) Some Populists denounced lynchings and the convict-lease system
E) The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters.

Question 65

Grover Cleveland proposed a reduction of the tariff rates because

A) he thought that the government had no right to meddle in the economy.
B) he believed that lower tariffs would encourage the growth of industry in the United States.
C) the tariff was feeding a large and growing federal budget surplus.
D) the tariff worked to the disadvantage of small farmers.
E) the farm lobby had been a major contributor to his presidential campaign.

Question 66

What happened to James Garfield's presidency?

A) Historians consider it the only successful presidency in the late 19^th century.
B) It never really got started since he was assassinated soon after coming to office.
C) He supervised the greatest civil service reform in American history.
D) He annexed Hawaii.
E) He proved a weak president and even lost the support of his own Republican party.

Question 67

What was the main importance of the government's establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission?

A) It established the principle of federal government regulation of business that crossed state lines
B) It allowed the federal government to set maximum railroad rates.
C) It limited the ability of railroads to form monopolies.
D) It ended the ability of states to regulate railroads within their boundaries.
E) It created the foundation for the interstate highway system.

Question 68

What was the position of the Anti-Imperialist League?

A) That it was too costly for the U.S. to be involved in aiding smaller countries.
B) That it violated the principles of the Declaration of Independence for the U.S. to rule other peoples.
C) That expansionism was against God's mission for the United States.
D) None of these choices
E) All of these choices

Question 69

Which of the following was a goal of the Greenback Party?

A) ending agricultural subsidies
B) restrictions on labor unions
C) an expanded money supply
D) American annexation of Samoa
E) high protective tariffs

Question 70

What did Coxey's Army want?

A) another increase in veterans' benefits.
B) a $500 million public-works program funded with paper money.
C) a chance to go to Cuba to join the Rough Riders.
D) a gold standard to stabilize the economy.
E) an expansion of the convict-lease system to cover most basic government services.

Question 71

What did the "separate but equal" doctrine mean?

A) Although the executive and legislative branches had separate powers and responsibilities, the two branches were constitutionally equal in importance.
B) Southern schools were segregated, but they had similar buildings, equivalent equipment, and equally qualified and equally paid teachers.
C) As long as facilities for whites and blacks were equivalent, they did not have to be racially integrated.
D) The northern and southern approaches to race relations were completely different, but as far as blacks were concerned they amounted to the same thing.
E) Labor and capital had different goals and different world views, but they were all equal under the law.

Question 72

Why did Grangers focus their activism on the railroads?

A) Railroads discriminated against small farmers by giving discounts to big shippers.
B) The railroads routinely bribed legislators to get what they wanted.
C) Railroads charged higher rates for short trips than they did for long ones.
D) All of these choices
E) None of these choices

Question 73

What was the Grange (the Patrons of Husbandry)?

A) an organization that provided mail-order brides to bachelor farmers.
B) a group of feminists who sought equality for husbands and wives.
C) a fraternal organization of the Dutch descendants of New Netherland "patroons."
D) a "men's liberation" group that sought to liberate American males from matriarchal bondage.
E) an organization of farmers.

Question 74

What did Booker T. Washington argue?

A) that black Americans should leave the United States and return to Africa.
B) that black Americans should align themselves with the Democratic Party.
C) that black Americans should acquire useful skills and patiently accept their lot until racism faded.
D) that black Americans should launch a rebellion against white oppression.
E) None of these choices

Question 75

Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?

A) A record-high tariff
B) The decision to cease government purchases of silver
C) Government attacks on entrenched economic interests
D) The decline of political activism in the agrarian South and West
E) The worst economic depression in the nineteenth century

Question 76

How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?

A) Public opinion sanctioned widespread de facto discrimination.
B) The influence of northern labor unions kept northern society racially integrated and equal.
C) Most Democratic politicians in northern cities used their political machines to make white supremacy the official policy.
D) The abolitionist legacy was still strong in the North and so most northerners continued to strive for an egalitarian society.
E) As a result of race riots and hard economic times, blacks were pressured to move to southern cities.

Question 77

Which of the following was not a goal of the Populist and Farmer's Alliance movements?

A) nationalization the railroads.
B) an increased money supply.
C) a higher protective tariff.
D) direct election of U.S. senators.
E) a graduated income tax.

Question 78

Which of the following was not a tool that southern states used to disfranchise blacks after Reconstruction?

A) Outright legal prohibitions
B) Literacy tests
C) Poll taxes
D) Grandfather clauses
E) Property requirements

Question 79

Which statement below concerning the farmers' alliance movement is true?

A) The movement was restricted to the agrarian South, because agriculture was prosperous elsewhere.
B) The movement initially advocated farmers' cooperatives and eventually turned to politics.
C) They wanted was never able to build a large membership.
D) The movement failed to win many supporters because of its virulent racism.
E) They wanted limited itself to a social and educational role and attempted to remain as non-controversial as possible to gain maximum support in Congress.

Question 80

The Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

A) stated that grandfather clauses restricting voting were unconstitutional.
B) overturned state laws regulating interstate railroad rates.
C) declared that the First Amendment did not protect a person's right to join hate groups.
D) established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which would not be overturned until 1954.
E) declared that racial profiling violated the Constitution.