APUSH (Henretta 8th) Ch. 20 reading quiz

In which pair is the first event an immediate cause of the second?

• Assassination of James Garfield in 1881 - the Pendleton Civil Service Act

• Sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 - U.S. entry into World War I

• Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 - U.S. entry into World War II

• Assassination of Alexander Hamilton in 1804 - end of the Federalist Party

• Election of John Adams in 1796 - Twelfth Amendment's adoption

Which of the following was NOT part of the Populist Party’s platform?

• term limits for politicians

• popular election of U.S. senators

• adherence to a gold standard

• a graduated income tax

• institution of a secret ballot

Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?

• Expansion of United States influence in Central America and access to new international markets

• Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system

• Social and political reform guided by the idea of the survival of the fittest

• Establishment of a transcontinental network of trains and the improvement of roads in the western United States

Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the

• rise of monopolies and reduction of wages for industrial workers

• development of reform movements inspired by the Second Great Awakening

• growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming

• emergence of concerns about abuses of the environment

The political base of the Democratic party in the late nineteenth century lay especially in

• Midwestern farmers

• the small towns of the Northeast and the South

• big business and those involved in international trade

• northern blacks and Asian immigrants

• the white South and big-city immigrant machines

In the election of 1896, the major issue became

• upholding the gold standard vs. the free and unlimited coinage of silver

• enactment of an income tax.

• government programs for those unemployed as a result of the depression

• the rights of farmers and industrial workers

• restoration of protective tariffs

“We shall not answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

This quotation is associated with which late-19th century leader?

• Oliver Kelley

• William McKinley

• W.E.B. DuBois

• William Jennings Bryan

• Booker T. Washington

Unlike Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois advocated

• turning to wealthy white philanthropist for funds to support black causes

• acceptance of segregation as a way of life

• economic opportunity for blacks through individual enterprise rather than politics

• that African Americans should fight for full social equality rather than accept abuse and segregation

• that blacks remain in the South rather than move north

To regain the political power that the middle class had lost to the corporate interests, progressives advocated all of the following EXCEPT

• initiative

• referendum

• recall

• direct election of U.S. senators

• socialism

Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism referred to the

• need for federal work relief programs

• call for a strong federal government

• granting of more power to state governments

• need for an isolationist foreign policy