US History - Unit 3 Review

Some Populist proposals were enacted decades after the party's demise, including some governmental regulation of the economy and 

• antitrust legislation
• federal ownership of railroads
• free coinage of silver
• a graduated income tax

In 1883, the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation when it overturned

• the Civil Rights Act of 1875
• the Fourteenth Amendement
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Wabash v. Illinois

William M. Tweed was

• the designer of the first skyscraper
• the inventor of the electric trolley car
• the leader of the Workingman's Party
• the party boss of a political machine

Tammany Hall was the name of a 

• dance hall
• political machine
• saloon
• theater

Social Darwinism was used by some industrial leaders to justify 

• government regulation
• laissez-faire capitalism
• philanthropy
• political activism

In public schools, immigrant children learned English and were taught about American history and culture, a process known as

• Americanization
• assimilation
• industrialization
• urbanization

Between 1860 and 1899, an average of 187 lynchings occurred each year, with the majority in

• Northern states
• Southern states
• urban tenements
• Western territories

The Supreme Court case Wabash v. Illinois established the principal that

• the federal government may not interfere with corporations
• only the federal government can regulate interstate commerce
• only the states can regulate the rates that railroads charge
• railroads are free to set whatever rates that they see fit

Mary Church Terrell was an African American leader who campaigned against lynching, worked for woman suffrage, and helped to found the 

• Atlanta Compromise
• Colored Farmers' National Alliance
• Exodusters
• NAACP

The Social Gospel Movement worked to better conditions in cities according to 

• biblical ideals of charity and justice
• the economic doctrine of laissez-faire
• practical realities of urban poverty
• the principles of social science