Deck 7: Women in an expanding nation: consolidation of the West,mass immigration,

Question 1

The first targets of U.S.anti-immigrant legislation were

A) Chinese women.
B) Japanese men.
C) Russian Jewish families.
D) Filipino women.

Answer 1

Chinese women.

Question 2

For what crime was Emma Goldman arrested and convicted?

A) Inciting a riot
B) An assassination attempt
C) Forming the Anarchy Party
D) Participating in the Pullman railroad strike

Answer 2

Inciting a riot

Question 3

In the late nineteenth century,some young European women emigrated to the United States to

A) participate in the gold rush taking place in the West.
B) escape political persecution.
C) flee overbearing fathers and arranged marriages.
D) enroll in American colleges that welcomed women.

Answer 3

flee overbearing fathers and arranged marriages.

Question 4

The 1867 organization of the National Grange changed women's lives by

A) offering leadership roles to women when they were recruited as officers.
B) taking the men away from the farm, leaving women to run the operations.
C) taking a positive position on birth control to ease farm women's child care burden.
D) encouraging women to work as clerks in railroad offices to increase family income.

Question 5

What was the period after the Civil War like for most Spanish-speaking women in the Southwest?

A) A time of great change as they were forced to abandon Spanish traditions for American values and ideas
B) A period of little change to their domestic lives as they continued to live much as earlier generations had done
C) A time of great economic opportunities as they took jobs in the offices of the new mining and railroad corporations entering the region
D) A period of great sorrow, as local practices stripped women of the right to own property and their high social status

Question 6

President Grover Cleveland responded to the Pullman strike of 1894 by

A) insisting that George Pullman raise wages and lower rents on his company-owned housing.
B) demanding that management sit down with labor and work out an equitable solution.
C) ignoring the strike and hoping that Pullman's private strikebreakers would end the conflict.
D) sending federal troops to quell the riots and occupy the rail yards.

Question 7

What was a result of the immigrant practice of sending teenage daughters into the American labor force?

A) Jealousy among their brothers, who often were forced to go to school
B) Difficult family tensions, as parents demanded the daughters' wages
C) Demonstrations about these workers by native-born, middle-class women
D) A decline in the marriage age among these women, who wanted to leave the working world

Question 8

Why did southern Populism fail in the late nineteenth century?

A) Most southerners were suspicious of a movement that originated in the North.
B) Southerners saw cooperation between black and white farmers as a threat to segregation.
C) Southern blacks found the organization racist and refused to work with white Populists.
D) Southern women's participation weakened the movement in the patriarchal southern society.

Question 9

Why did Italian parents not want their daughters to work as domestic servants?

A) Italian mothers needed their daughters at home to help with child care and housework.
B) Italian girls could earn more money working as clerical help in offices.
C) Italian custom forbade women from working outside the home.
D) Italian parents did not want their daughters working in strange households.

Question 10

What traditional Native American practice did the Apache woman Lozen exemplify?

A) Allowing exceptional individuals to cross the gender divide
B) Letting wives of military leaders onto the battlefield
C) Giving women a prominent role in healing
D) Letting women handle diplomatic tasks

Question 11

Jane Addams was significant because she was a

A) labor leader who organized garment workers.
B) prominent leader in the settlement house movement.
C) major leader of the Populists in the West.
D) crusader against lynching of African Americans.

Question 12

Why did campaigns against Native American tribes in the West intensify after 1865?

A) The tribes formed a powerful confederation to resist white settlement.
B) The U.S. Army had been released from the military campaigns of the Civil War.
C) President Andrew Johnson vowed to subdue the tribes.
D) Wounded Knee drastically reduced Indian resistance and paved the way for final victory.

Question 13

Hull House's Jane Club served immigrant women as a

A) hospital for unwed mothers.
B) vocational school for immigrant children.
C) cooking club for immigrant mothers.
D) residence for immigrant girls living away from their families.

Question 14

What successful movement did missionaries of the WCTU (Woman's Christian Temperance Union)help launch in Japan?

A) Woman suffrage movement
B) Anticoncubinage movement
C) Protestant Bible movement
D) Anti-mail order bride movement

Question 15

President Theodore Roosevelt was concerned about middle-class women going to college or working because he worried that

A) educated women would compete with men for managerial jobs.
B) the strain of office work would rob women of their femininity.
C) they were putting their careers ahead of having babies.
D) women in the workplace would distract men from their work.

Question 16

The government-run boarding schools for Native American children in the late nineteenth century

A) tried to teach children how to maintain their Native cultures.
B) produced no able leaders among the students who attended.
C) educated only boys, leaving the girls on the reservations.
D) forcibly educated children in the values of white American culture.

Question 17

What was a defining feature of most farm women's experiences on the Great Plains?

A) They had more help around the farm from Native and Hispanic women who worked for low wages.
B) The physical environment was less severe than in the East and the land much easier to farm.
C) They spent a great deal of time sharing chores and visiting with neighboring women.
D) Because there were few trees on the plains, they lived in sod houses made from topsoil.

Question 18

Many immigrant wives and mothers made money by

A) working alongside their daughters in the factories.
B) serving as domestic servants in middle-class homes.
C) taking in single male immigrants as boarders.
D) working in the day care centers at settlement houses.

Question 19

In mining and cow towns,working-class wives made money by

A) working as domestic help in the homes of wealthy women.
B) working as office clerks in mining company offices.
C) singing and performing in the saloons.
D) running boardinghouses that fed and housed single men.

Question 20

How did the Dawes Severalty Act affect Native women?

A) It taught women to be more self-sufficient by putting them in charge of agriculture on the reservation.
B) It raised Native women's status on the reservation by legally recognizing their role as spiritual leaders.
C) It created a land allotment program, which deepened the dependency of Native women on men.
D) It designated women as the heads of households to offset Native men's loss of self-worth and ambition.

Question 21

What do historians mean by the term "Family West"?

A) The movement of entire families to mining towns
B) The removal of Native American families from the plains
C) The settlement of farm families in the West
D) The pioneer myth of the West that was popular in the East

Question 22

What role did women play during the Pullman strike of 1894?

A) Wives joined the picket lines to protest low wages and high rents.
B) Management brought in women as strikebreakers.
C) Women petitioned the government to force management to meet strikers' demands.
D) Wives stayed home to avoid harm when management sent in the police.

Question 23

Women helped support the Spanish-American War by

A) joining the military and traveling to Cuba as army nurses.
B) sending letters and advice to Cuban women on how to support the cause.
C) working in the factories to replace the men who were drafted.
D) raising funds for military hospitals.

Question 24

What obstacle did immigrant women face on the journey to the United States?

A) Some women were turned back at embarkation stations because national quotas had already been met.
B) Italian women were assumed to be immoral and were detained until they could establish their respectability.
C) Many women spent ten to twenty days living in cramped, unhealthy conditions below deck.
D) Hundreds of thousands of European women were sold into white slavery on the journey.

Question 25

Florence Kelley was important in the late 1800s because she

A) began the settlement house movement.
B) worked to get workplace safety laws passed in Illinois.
C) was the leader of the temperance movement.
D) advocated for Native American rights.

Question 26

How impact did the National Grange have on farm women's lives?

A) It was a male-only organization that fought hard against woman suffrage.
B) It encouraged farm families to have fewer children to lessen women's child care responsibilities.
C) Men spent much time working on Grange business, leaving women to run the farm.
D) Social and cultural events sponsored by the Grange helped overcome women's isolation.

Question 27

In immigrant communities,to whom did the challenge of maintaining traditional customs and religious practices generally fall?

A) Fathers and other older men who had the authority of patriarchy
B) Priests and rabbis, who held religious authority
C) Mothers, who were largely excluded from work outside the home
D) The oldest son, who set an example for brothers and sisters

Question 28

Why was legislation passed in 1875 to discourage the immigration of Chinese women?

A) Americans suspected them of being brought to the United States as "picture brides" for white laborers.
B) Americans felt that they were taking too many jobs away from American working women.
C) Americans assumed that most Chinese women were being brought over to be prostitutes.
D) Americans resented the ability of Chinese women to help their husbands create successful farms.

Question 29

What effect did the Populist Party have on women's rights in the West during the 1890s?

A) The Populists fought for women's right to own property.
B) It reinvigorated the suffrage movement.
C) It promoted working women's right to join unions.
D) The Populist Party promoted women's right to divorce.

Question 30

What type of industrial job did most young immigrant women do at the end of the nineteenth century?

A) Typesetting
B) Hat-making
C) Food processing
D) Garment manufacturing

Question 31

How did the lives of Hispanic women differ from those of white women in the West in the late 1800s?

A) Hispanic women had greater job opportunities because many railroad corporations hired them to teach Spanish to their officers.
B) U.S. law forced Hispanic women to abandon their traditional ways of living and adopt American traditions and lifestyle.
C) Unlike white women, most Spanish-speaking women worked with their husbands in the rivers panning for gold.
D) Local Hispanic practices favored female property owning, and when widowed, Hispanic women did not remarry but served as heads of their households.

Question 32

What did both white working- and upper-class women share in the Wild West?

A) The desire to become members of the Grange so they could socialize and alleviate their loneliness
B) A common purpose, which was to distinguish themselves from disreputable women
C) Similar housing, since most families living in the West used sod houses
D) Similar domestic duties, as there was little domestic help in the mostly male Wild West

Question 33

The federal government gained the lands of the Native tribes on the plains by

A) using diplomacy and buying land from the Plains Indians.
B) enticing Native people off their lands and onto the reservations.
C) using the army to wear away Native peoples' resistance.
D) using the army to subdue Native peoples before the Civil War.

Question 34

The Ghost Dance practiced by the Lakota Sioux in the late 1800s

A) centered on reverence for warriors killed in the struggle against whites.
B) promised restoration of their traditional lands and lives.
C) called for peaceful assimilation into white society.
D) advocated a new organized insurgency.

Question 35

What does historical evidence suggest was the greatest burden for women settlers on the Great Plains?

A) Pregnancy and childbirth
B) Drudgery and loneliness
C) Lack of domestic help
D) Domestic violence

Question 36

American suffragists protested the U.S.overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and the subsequent annexation of Hawaii because they

A) objected that Congress approved the overthrow of a female monarch.
B) thought it was unconstitutional for Congress to impose a government on Hawaii.
C) protested Congress's plan to write a new constitution for Hawaii that denied rights to women.
D) condemned the act as an unlawful conquest and demanded that the islands be returned to the Hawaiian people.

Question 37

Hull House,the most influential settlement house in the United States,embraced the philosophy of

A) encouraging immigrants to learn English so that the United States might become a monolingual society.
B) helping immigrants understand and enter the industrial economy of the late nineteenth century.
C) building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture.
D) encouraging immigrants to bring their radical economic ideas to labor unions.

Question 38

What happened to the women and children of the Native tribes that resisted the encroachment of white settlers in the West?

A) They were killed with impunity by pursuing American troops.
B) They often slowed down the warriors, making the tribes' capture easier.
C) They were considered noncombatants by American troops and offered safe passage.
D) They served the tribe effectively by providing food and medical services.

Question 39

How did Americans regard the Japanese practice of shaskin kekkon (literally,"photograph marriages")?

A) They regarded it as yet another indication of the allegedly low morals of Asians.
B) Many Americans approved of the practice since it prevented Asian men from marrying American women.
C) Many American men participated in the practice to obtain wives to help them settle the West.
D) They saw it as an excellent system of importing cheap female labor for manufacturing jobs.

Question 40

Why did women activists find it difficult to end child labor in the United States?

A) Immigrant parents resisted such efforts because they needed their children's income to survive.
B) Manufacturers were willing to give up this cheap labor source only if women took their place.
C) Legislators had little sympathy for the predominantly immigrant children who worked in factories.
D) Middle-class families feared that immigrant children would flood public schools.