Deck 18: The Industrial Age: North, south, and West

Question 1

Streetcars made these possible:

A) country estates
B) hour-long commutes
C) low-cost housing outside the city center
D) more independent women
E) suburbs

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Which of these was not a major reason for immigration to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

A) A large increase in population across Europe.
B) A rise in anti-Semitism, especially in Russia.
C) The lure of economic opportunity in America.
D) American advertisements placed in Western European newspapers.
E) Europe's Industrial Revolution, which drew too many people to the cities, where they could not find jobs.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s,and city sanitation was so poor,that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities.

A) smallpox
B) typhoid
C) measles
D) swine flu
E) plague

Answer 3

B

Question 4

It is true of the southern textile industry that

A) it was the most successful area of industrial development for the South.
B) although for a while the textile industry did well, the North eventually surpassed it, and by 1900 it was on its last legs.
C) wages in southern textile mills were the same as in the North.
D) the production of iron had outpaced textile production by 1900.
E) it employed a large percentage of Southerners.

Question 5

Between 1880 and 1920,approximately ____ people came to America from other countries.

A) 500,000
B) 5 million
C) 25 million
D) 10 million
E) 1 million

Question 6

The only one of these forms of entertainment not deemed immoral or improper by the upper classes in the 1890s was

A) saloons.
B) amusement parks.
C) vaudeville houses.
D) dance halls.
E) brothels.

Question 7

The term "Gilded Age" was coined by

A) Mark Twain.
B) Andrew Carnegie.
C) Charles Darwin.
D) Herbert Spencer.
E) William M. Tweed.

Question 8

The major industries that developed in the South prior to 1900 included all of the following except

A) railroads.
B) cotton production.
C) textiles.
D) electricity.
E) iron production.

Question 9

Henry Grady's speech,"The New South," could best be classified as

A) a call for a return to the plantation order.
B) an invitation to black Southerners to join the ranks of whites.
C) a romantic celebration of the Klan.
D) An attempt to rally the South to see their region linked not to the antebellum and slavery past but to the promises of the Industrial Revolution and the South's new spirit of enterprise.
E) an open critique of the Southern practice of segregation.

Question 10

Ida B.Wells-Barnett,an editor and writer,concentrated her reform efforts on the social issue of

A) temperance.
B) disfranchisement.
C) women's rights.
D) racism.
E) lynching.

Question 11

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century,almost 2,000 black men in the South

A) managed to purchase small plots of land.
B) were wrongfully imprisoned.
C) were shot in arguments with whites.
D) left the South because there was so much violence against African Americans.
E) were lynched by white mobs.

Question 12

When General George Armstrong Custer attempted to protect white prospectors on sacred Indian lands,Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated them,led by

A) Tecumseh.
B) Chief Joseph.
C) Nez Perce.
D) Chief Pontiac.
E) Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

Question 13

The Dawes Act

A) established segregation in all southern states.
B) introduced silver to the national currency.
C) established Indian reservations across the country.
D) divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land and put the land titles in a federal trust.
E) was designed to stimulate the development of Southern Industry.

Question 14

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

A) resulted from fears that the increasing number of Chinese immigrants would depress wages.
B) banned immigration of Chinese workers for ten years and prohibited those in the U.S. from becoming citizens.
C) was renewed twice, but didn't prevent wealthy Chinese from immigrating.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.

Question 15

Which of these was not a factor in the disfranchisement of Southern blacks?

A) poll taxes
B) literacy tests
C) property qualifications
D) lynchings and other forms of violence
E) refusal to accept accomodationism

Question 16

All of the following is true about the rise and development of professional baseball from the 1870s through the first decade of the twentieth century,except

A) It depended on intercity rail transport.
B) It made heavy use of telegraph technology for news of scores and results.
C) It was an important source of urban pride.
D) It originated in college sports.
E) It benefited from a growing new middle class with sufficient disposable income to enjoy an afternoon at the ballpark.

Question 17

Which was true for most immigrants to America?

A) Most had little knowledge of English, so they commanded only the lowest paying jobs.
B) Most had little education.
C) Most remained close to the cities where they had landed - the East Coast's large cities.
D) They usually had little or no understanding of American culture.
E) All of these choices.

Question 18

Booker T.Washington's speech,now referred to as the Atlanta Compromise,suggested that

A) African Americans ought to fight for their full political rights.
B) Southern blacks should improve their economic standing through self-help but remain separate from white society except to work together to reach common economic ground.
C) white Americans owed African Americans not just an apology, but massive reparations.
D) African Americans ought to emigrate to Africa.
E) the only answer to racial oppression was a vote for liberal Democrats.

Question 19

In the 1896 case of Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court held that segregation laws governing public accommodations such as railroads and public schools were constitutional based on the Court's finding that

A) both races agreed that was what they wanted.
B) either of the races present wanted it that way.
C) no other laws were broken.
D) separate public facilities for each race had been provided and that no qualitative difference existed between the two racially-based sets of public accommodations.
E) separate but comparable facilities were provided for each race.

Question 20

The tenement buildings in which immigrants often lived frequently lacked all of the following,except

A) windows.
B) indoor plumbing.
C) heat.
D) violent crime.
E) thick walls.

Question 21

In the years following the Civil War,those most interested in the newly opened lands in the West were

A) small farmers eager to work the superior soil of the Great Plains.
B) corporate interests with headquarters in northern cities.
C) ex-soldiers who had been given land by the government for their services.
D) a few miners still hoping for a bonanza of gold.
E) Southern freedmen drawn by the prospect of escaping racial discrimination.

Question 22

Segregation in the South was harsh.Describe some of the things that whites did to maintain a segregated society and to keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Question 23

All of the following are true statements about the Populist Party except

A) It emerged from the farmers' alliances and farm movements of the West.
B) It embraced the gold standard.
C) It sometimes championed nationalizing certain industries, increased government regulation, and a redistribution of wealth.
D) Several of its candidates won Congressional seats in 1894.
E) William Jennings Bryan was the Populist candidate for president in 1896.

Question 24

By 1900,more than a third of America's people lived in cities,with the cities growing twice as fast as the general population.

Question 25

The most prominent educational institution founded for African Americans was

A) the Tuskegee Institute.
B) Atlanta University.
C) Fisk University.
D) Howard University.
E) Spellman.

Question 26

Compare and contrast the experiences of Chinese and Native Americans in the West after the Civil War.

Question 27

The final act in the U.S.war against the Plains Indians took place at

A) Little Big Horn.
B) Sand Creek.
C) Wounded Knee.
D) the Canadian border.
E) Pine Ridge.

Question 28

By 1890,the wealthiest 1 percent of the American population owned as much property as the remaining 99 percent.

Question 29

How did industrialization affect the settlement of the West,especially in regard to farming?

Question 30

Disagreeing with Booker T.Washington,W.E.B.DuBois advised African Americans that

A) white men were the personification of the devil.
B) Booker T. Washington was a secret white supremacist agent.
C) blacks should organize their wholesale emigration to Liberia.
D) blacks should aggressively use political advocacy instruments to insist that federal and state governments protect their rights rather than accept discrimination, violence, and separation.
E) if blacks did not stick together, there was a possibility that slavery could return.

Question 31

The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West,occupy land for five years,and then claim as their own a total of

A) 640 acres.
B) 120 acres.
C) 1600 acres.
D) 160 acres.
E) 4,000 acres.

Question 32

The Grange was

A) a national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers' economic problems.
B) a rural chain of savings banks for farmers.
C) an organization that tried to unionize cowboys.
D) a nativist organization committed to the exclusion of Chinese from the United States.
E) a southern group comparable to the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 33

The farmers' alliances began as political organizations,seeking to give farmers a voice in government.

Question 34

All of the following is true about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),except

A) The organization was founded in 1909.
B) W.E.B. Du Bois was one of its most important early organizers.
C) One of its main missions was an end to lynching.
D) Its campaign for desegregation proved a quick and early success in the organization's history.
E) It grew out of the Niagara Movement.

Question 35

What was the Grange? How did it evolve into the Farmers' Alliance? How did the Alliance evolve into the Populist Party?

Question 36

What was the myth of the "Lost Cause"? Why did some southerners find it necessary to develop such a myth?

Question 37

In his book,The Lost Cause,published just one year after the Civil War ended,Edward Pollard argued that the real reason the Civil War happened was

A) northern aggression against the South.
B) states' rights.
C) the South's desire to maintain slavery.
D) old hatred between the North and the South.
E) the North's desire to end slavery.

Question 38

Why did Mark Twain describe this era as "The Gilded Age"? What does "gilded" mean? Why does it seem to fit this age so well?

Question 39

The term "cow town" referred to towns that developed to facilitate the movement of cattle from Texas and Oklahoma to other parts of the country.

Question 40

Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to move westward and

A) grow wheat.
B) build railroads connecting the East and West.
C) establish towns.
D) grow corn.
E) raise hogs.

Question 41

Immigrants to America in the late 19ᵗʰ century may have wanted very much to hold on to the culture of their native countries,but they soon learned that if they wanted to improve their status in society,they had to assimilate into American culture and leave their old world behind.

Question 42

Coney Island was one of the most popular amusement parks in the country.

Question 43

The federal government took most silver and paper money out of circulation between 1873-1875,resulting in rampant deflation.

Question 44

President Grant's "Peace Policy" in dealing with Plains Indians fostered the notion of "conquest through kindness."

Question 45

The silver discovery at Leadville,Colorado led to very few opportunities for the individual prospector,and the same was true of the gold strike at Cripple Creek fourteen years later.

Question 46

The "new immigrants" came predominantly from eastern,central,and southern Europe.