APUSH Chapter 20

1. The prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals?

• Limiting the power of big business

• Ameliorating poverty

• Promoting social justice

• Bringing full equality to

  blacks

In general, progressives differed from labor and farm advocates because the progressives

• were mostly middle-class urban reformers.

• were often more radical.

• generally had less success on the national level.

• were part of a much more unified and cohesive movement

The Pendleton Act of 1883

• created the Civil Service Commission, which filled some government jobs by examination.

• provided temporary benefits for families left without their breadwinner.

• gave financial assistance to elderly Americans living in poverty.

• created pensions for the families of disabled workers.

Mugwumps were reformers who

• supported welfare reform.

• advocated legislation to protect working men.

• supported smaller government.

• opposed the Australian-style secret ballot.

Which of the following was the first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Pendleton Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Clayton Antitrust Act

Which president advocated measures to protect black voting rights in the South after the end of Reconstruction?

• James Garfield

• Benjamin Harrison

• Grover Cleveland

• William McKinley

Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s bill to create a bipartisan federal election board fail to pass in the Senate in 1890?

• Northern liberals were afraid that it provided for too much democracy.

• Urban bosses objected to its

  assumptions about immigrants.

• Northern manufacturers

  feared it would empower urban workers.

• President Benjamin Harrison

  threatened to veto the legislation.

In their 1892 Omaha Platform, Populists called for

• women’s suffrage.

• public ownership of factories.

• a federal income tax.

• a tighter monetary policy.

How did the federal government respond when jobless men marched on Washington in 1894?

• President Cleveland listened to them sympathetically.

• Congress passed a measure to

  provide temporary relief to the unemployed.

• Their leader Jacob Coxey was arrested and their demands were not met.

• The president appointed a commission to study their grievances.

Which of the following was President Cleveland’s greatest public relations failure during his presidency?

• Sentencing Jacob Coxey to death

• Supporting the strikers in the Pullman strike

• Conducting secret negotiations with J. P. Morgan to replenish American gold

• Going off the gold standard