Deck 17: Challenges to Government and Corporate Power, 1877-1890

Question 1

__________ preached what came to be called the Ghost Dance.

A) Crazy Horse
B) Pontiac
C) Little Turtle
D) Wovoka

Answer 1

Wovoka

Question 2

Which of the following best characterizes the "New South" as imagined by Henry Grady?

A) an industrial, forward-looking society
B) a traditional, peaceful agrarian society
C) a dangerously divided society
D) a stagnant, backward-looking society

Answer 2

an industrial, forward-looking society

Question 3

Which of the following did Henry Grady promote?

A) the industrialization of the South
B) a return to traditional southern values
C) the secession of the South
D) an effort to reintroduce slavery

Answer 3

the industrialization of the South

Question 4

Which of the following took a leading role in securing passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

A) the Women's Christian Temperance Union
B) the International Workers of the World
C) the Knights of Labor
D) the Anti-Saloon League

Question 5

__________ claimed that the "New South" was prepared to promote racial reconciliation.

A) Joseph Tape
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Henry Grady
D) Horace Greeley

Question 6

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the San Francisco laundry licensing board had engaged in discriminatory application of the law in the case of __________.

A) Koramatzu v. the United States
B) Tape v. Hurley
C) Ling Sing v. Washburn
D) Yick Wo v. Hopkins

Question 7

The term "Jim Crow" refers to a set of laws that __________.

A) were intended to force blacks to leave the South
B) institutionalized segregation
C) governed tax and finance policies
D) encouraged the industrialization of the South

Question 8

How did white officials respond to the rising tide of lynchings in the South in the 1890s?

A) They created a special task force to investigate lynchings.
B) They claimed that lynching was rare or nonexistent.
C) They did little or nothing to stop it.
D) They passed new laws to punish members of lynch mobs.

Question 9

Which of the following was demonstrated by the Chinese response to discrimination in California?

A) their lack of education and sophistication
B) their hostility to European Americans
C) their unwillingness to be assimilated
D) their understanding of the American political and legal system

Question 10

The convict-lease system provided planters and other employers access to __________.

A) cheap labor
B) public land
C) tax subsidies
D) inexpensive equipment and supplies

Question 11

In 1885, white workers massacred twenty-eight Chinese after __________ announced they would begin hiring the lower-paid immigrants.

A) fruit growers
B) mining company officials
C) city leaders
D) railroad officials

Question 12

Who was assigned to the 24th and 25th Infantries?

A) African Americans
B) Civil War veterans
C) Native Americans
D) Recent immigrants

Question 13

The Seventh Cavalry led the December 1890 attack on Indians at __________.

A) Wounded Knee, South Dakota
B) Apple Creek, Colorado
C) Palo Duro Canyon, Texas
D) Big Sandy, Wyoming

Question 14

In the case of Ling Sing v. Washburn, the California Supreme Court ruled that Chinese miners could not be singled out for __________.

A) special taxes
B) deportation
C) hiring freezes
D) exclusion from unions

Question 15

In the case of Tape v. Hurley, the California Supreme Court ruled that __________.

A) the San Francisco School Board could not bar the admission of Chinese pupils
B) the California capitation tax levied exclusively on Chinese was illegal
C) Chinese miners were not entitled to basic human rights
D) government officials were not obligated to extend citizenship to Chinese and other Asians

Question 16

Most black soldiers were assigned to duty in the West, where they became known as __________.

A) Buffalo soldiers
B) Smoked Yankees
C) Abraham's army
D) Exodusters

Question 17

Which of the following was true of the Exodusters?

A) They left the South to escape white racism.
B) They settled in the Caribbean.
C) They sought to change southern society from within.
D) They were mostly well-off landowners.

Question 18

The Chinese Exclusion Act denied all Chinese __________ entry into the United States.

A) laborers
B) students
C) merchants
D) government

Question 19

__________ pioneered the production of machine-made cigarettes.

A) James Buchanan Duke
B) R.J. Reynolds
C) Joseph Marlboro
D) Philip Morris

Question 20

Lieutenant Colonel George Custer refused to __________.

A) discriminate against black troops
B) command black troops
C) assign black soldiers combat missions
D) speak with black soldiers

Question 21

In Looking Backward, __________ envisioned a "cooperative commonwealth" in the year 2000.

A) Henry George
B) Samuel Clemens
C) Jacob Riis
D) Edward Bellamy

Question 22

In the end, Populism was primarily a(n) __________.

A) elite movement
B) rural movement
C) urban phenomenon
D) East Coast phenomenon

Question 23

The Knights of Labor condemned __________.

A) government intervention in the economy
B) the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few
C) the diversification of the workforce
D) labor unions, craft guilds, and workers' parties

Question 24

Leonora Barry sought to do which of the following?

A) overcome male resistance to female workers
B) win ratification of a temperance amendment to the Constitution
C) encourage middle-class women to join reform organizations
D) create a women's auxiliary to the Northern Alliance

Question 25

Samuel Gompers was the leader and founder of the _________.

A) American Federation of Labor
B) Congress of Industrial Organizations
C) International Workers of the World
D) American Communist Party

Question 26

Unlike the Southern Alliance, the Northern Alliance favored __________.

A) the expansion of the currency supply
B) the formation of a third political party
C) government ownership of the railroads
D) immigration quotas and restrictions

Question 27

The year 1886 marked the end of an era dominated by the __________.

A) National Labor Union
B) American Federation of Labor
C) Knights of Labor
D) Populists

Question 28

Which of the following best characterizes the Ghost Dance?

A) The dance was an ancient ceremonial rite.
B) The dance was part religion and part resistance movement.
C) The dance was created to attract tourists.
D) The dance was a form of relaxation and recreation.

Question 29

Which of the following issues became the focus of workers around the country in 1886?

A) the eight-hour work day
B) child labor
C) the $3 per hour minimum wage
D) workplace safety regulations

Question 30

In the 1870s and 1880s, Americans who challenged the power of government and big business __________.

A) had a unified mission and goals
B) were mostly from the upper classes
C) all agreed on the need to abolish private property
D) took a wide variety of approaches to the problem

Question 31

How did Sitting Bull see the white way of life?

A) as almost comical in its stupidity
B) as superior to that of the Indian
C) as admirable in many ways
D) as materialist and sedentary

Question 32

During a rally in __________'s Haymarket Square, a bomb went off, killing a police officer.

A) Milwaukee
B) Boston
C) New York
D) Chicago

Question 33

What caused Kansas and Nebraska to lose half of their populations during the late 1880s?

A) cheaper land further east
B) high taxes
C) factory job opportunities in the South
D) the effects of drought and declining wheat prices

Question 34

By the early 1890s, critics of the new industrial and agribusiness order had formed a new political group known as the ______________.

A) Knights of Labor
B) Farmers' Alliance
C) Populists
D) Grange

Question 35

Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives helped galvanize public support for which of the following?

A) social welfare programs
B) the temperance movement
C) slum clearance and housing codes
D) new restrictions on child labor

Question 36

What was the goal of most Native groups in the decades following the Civil War?

A) the destruction of all white communities
B) full civil rights
C) assimilation
D) independence from whites

Question 37

_____________ published a collection of his photographs under the title How the Other Half Lives.

A) Edward Bellamy
B) Jacob Riis
C) Henry Ward Beecher
D) L. Frank Baum

Question 38

Both the Northern and Southern Alliance pressed for __________.

A) the expansion of the currency supply
B) voting rights for African Americans
C) the gold standard
D) voting rights for women

Question 39

What was the aim of the Populists?

A) to unite all laborers
B) to organize craft unions
C) to overthrow the U.S. government
D) to abolish private property

Question 40

_______________ led the Knights of Labor in the 1880s.

A) Terence V. Powderly
B) Samuel Gompers
C) Henry George
D) Jacob Riis

Question 41

The Industrial Christian Home Association received a subsidy from Congress to provide shelter for __________.

A) Mormon women
B) Chinese prostitutes
C) African American orphans
D) the elderly and the infirm

Question 42

What was the purpose of the Indian boarding school movement?

A) to force Indian children to abandon their native culture
B) to teach Indian children about their native culture
C) to prepare Indian children to leave the United States
D) to punish Indian parents for resistance to government policies

Question 43

Which was the first state or territory to allow women to vote?

A) Virginia
B) California
C) Wyoming
D) Texas

Question 44

__________ toured the East Coast in 1879 promoting the cause of Indian assimilation.

A) Standing Bear
B) Sitting Bull
C) Geronimo
D) Crazy Horse

Question 45

By the end of the 1870s, reformers had become convinced that __________.

A) the Indian reservation system was a failure
B) Indian assimilation was impossible
C) Indian reservations needed to be expanded
D) most Indians were content with the status quo

Question 46

Describe the Alliance movement of the 1880s.

Question 47

What were the goals of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s?

Question 48

Jane Addams's inspiration for Hull House came from her travels in __________.

A) Germany
B) England
C) the American South
D) Spain and Portugal

Question 49

Describe Jane Addams's career as a social reformer.

Question 50

In addition to its anti-alcohol crusade, the Women's Christian Temperance Union __________.

A) worked to put an end to the settlement house movement
B) fought for racial equality
C) lobbied on behalf of the Democratic party
D) sponsored homes for unwed mothers

Question 51

Which of the following was stressed by the Social Gospel movement?

A) the responsibility of Christians to serve as missionaries abroad
B) the responsibility of Christians to address the ills of modern urban life
C) the responsibility of Christians to avoid politics
D) the responsibility of Christians to enforce traditional gender roles

Question 52

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 allowed __________.

A) Native Americans to claim old-age pensions
B) whites to evict Native Americans from reservations
C) reservation land to be divided into separate farms
D) the government to imprison Native Americans

Question 53

Why did reformers consider the Indian reservation system a failure? What did they want to put in its place?

Question 54

__________ served as president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

A) Frances Willard
B) Victoria Woodhull
C) Carrie Nation
D) Jane Addams