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History chapter 18-21

Total questions: 64

Worksheet time: 32mins

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1.

The chapter introduction tells the story of the "Exodusters" to make the point that ______.

a)

both the South and the Midwest lost population as blacks and whites alike joined the "Boomer" land rushes in the far West.

b)

religious imagery was important in the lonely lives of rural folk in the late nineteenth century.

c)

hopes for the future in the South and West confronted realities of "colonial" economies built on exploited lands and peoples.

d)

while the South suffered from floods and worn-out soil, westerners suffered from locust infestations and the Dust Bowl.

2.

Which of the following is NOT true about the post-Civil War southern economy?

a)

The South's economy was poor, decentralized, and isolated

b)

Despite dreams of a "New South," industry never took hold in the South before 1900

c)

A capital shortage made tenant farms the prevailing pattern in southern agriculture

d)

Cotton remained the dominant southern product, despite falling prices

3.

What does "sharecropping " mean?

a)

organizing a farm as a corporation to gain tax advantages

b)

returning a fraction of the harvest to the landowner as rent

c)

borrowing against a future crop in order to obtain seed

d)

planting two separate crops (e.g., cotton and beans) in the same field.

4.

What is the best explanation for why tenancy became widespread in the South?

a)

Southern farmers preferred not to own land

b)

It made cattle ranching more practical

c)

A shortage of cash and credit made land ownership difficult

d)

Blacks refused to leave the areas where they were raised

5.

Which of the following does NOT help explain the South's persistent poverty?

a)

northerners refused to invest any capital in the South

b)

an isolated and low-paid labor pool, primarily geared to farming

c)

the fact that the South lagged so far behind the North in industrializing

d)

a poor educational system, fostering a largely unskilled work force

6.

Who were the Redeemers?

a)

nonpartisan advocates of equal rights for freedmen

b)

white Democrats vowing to end Republican rule

c)

northern reformers who took over southern governments

d)

moderate border-state Republicans

7.

To what does the term "Jim Crow" refer?

a)

a technique used by the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate rural African Americans in the South

b)

a process by which freed slaves established new communities in Kansas

c)

a system of legalized separation of blacks as socially inferior

d)

a Supreme Court case that declared that legalized segregation was constitutional

8.

What precedent was established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

t upheld legislation curbing the power of monopolies

b)

It banned discrimination from interstate commerce

c)

It established the concept of "separate but equal."

d)

It extended protection to blacks under the Fifteenth Amendment

9.

Which of the following is NOT true about the environment in the West?

a)

Temperature extremes can be dramatic, except near the Pacific coast

b)

Plains Indians hunted bison on horseback for millennia on the Great Plains

c)

Wood is scarce in most areas outside the Pacific Northwest

d)

The Great Plains were largely grasslands, requiring heavy investment before a profitable farm could be created

10.

On the Great Plains, what disrupted the migratory patterns of the buffalo and thus the patterns of the hunt?

a)

disease

b)

weather

c)

railroads

d)

earthquakes

11.

What was the goal of the early federal Indian policy of "concentration"?

a)

to bring all Indians together in a single nation

b)

to promote tribal rather than individual land ownership

c)

to open more land for white development

d)

to surround hostile tribes with a strong U.S. army force

12.

The purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1877 was to_____.

a)

assimilate American Indian tribes into U.S. society

b)

draft members of American Indian tribes into the U.S. military

c)

return lands to American Indian tribes

d)

move American Indian tribes to reservations

13.

Which of the following marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians?

a)

the Wounded Knee massacre

b)

the Battle of Little Big Horn

c)

the death of Sitting Bull

d)

the Sand Creek Massacre

14.

Labor in the construction of the California section of the transcontinental railroad was supplied by _____.

a)

Mexican workers

b)

Irish Workers

c)

Chinese workers

d)

Italian Workers

15.

Which statement accurately describes the development of the Great Plains in the late 19th Century?

a)

Railroads decreased in importance

b)

Great profits were earned in the steel industry

c)

Technological innovations made farming there possible

d)

Immigrants could not afford to farm these lands

16.

What was an important result of the passage of the Homestead Act?

a)

the creation of Indian reservations in the Southwest

b)

the building of large urban centers in the West

c)

a rush to grab free land in the Great Plains

d)

an influx of Chinese immigrants to California

17.

Which factor was most important in enabling natural resource extraction and conversion to take off in the nineteenth century?

a)

Large discoveries of iron and oil forced more production

b)

Railroads made it easier to transport finished materials

c)

New technologies made mass production possible

d)

New patent protections encouraged inventors to develop

18.

Whose "invention factory" at Menlo Park was reflective of the systematization of invention in the new industrial order?

a)

Bessemer

b)

Edison

c)

Morse

d)

Eastman

19.

What was the most important result of the development of railroads, the telegraph and telephone, and other transportation and communications advances?

a)

increased demand for capital by corporations

b)

the establishment of integrated national market

c)

increased pollution and the destruction of natural resources

d)

the strengthening of interstate commerce laws

20.

The first "big business" in America, at least in terms of finance, labor relations, and management, was the ____.

a)

railroad industry

b)

telephone industry

c)

steel industry

d)

oil refining industry

21.

Rockefeller and Carnegie employed all the following measures while developing their industrial empires EXCEPT_______.

a)

expanding their companies both vertically and horizontally.

b)

engaging in ruthless competition

c)

charging customers exorbitant prices

d)

developing effective management strategies

22.

What company did J. Pierpont Morgan create when he merged nine competing steel manufacturers into one?

a)

Carnegie Steel Company

b)

British Steel

c)

Morgan Heavy Industries

d)

United States Steel Corporation

23.

Who preached a "gospel of wealth"?

a)

Samuel Gompers

b)

Herbert Spencer

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

Terence Powderly

24.

Who among the following advocated what was referred to as "social Darwinism"?

a)

Herbert Spencer

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Henry George

d)

Edward Bellamy

25.

What was the most important downside of big business, according to critics?

a)

It caused prices for consumer goods to increase beyond reach

b)

Large-scale industrial development took a toll on the environment

c)

It created an enormous and unfair divide between rich and poor

d)

Big business distanced owners from employees' concerns

26.

Which act gave the government the power to break up trusts and other big businesses?

a)

Knight Company Act

b)

Rockefeller Antitrust Act

c)

Big Business Act

d)

Sherman Antitrust Act

27.

Which of the following was the result of industrialization?

a)

loss of free time and worker power

b)

a stabilized business cycle

c)

environmental protection

d)

job satisfaction

28.

Which of the following was the result of industrialization?

a)

a stabilized business cycle

b)

environmental protection

c)

job satisfaction

d)

loss of free time and worker power

29.

What was the central difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

a)

The Knights rejected any use of violence, while the AFL was known for its radicalism and violent strikes.

b)

The Knights wanted "one big union," while the AFL organized skilled craftsmen only

c)

The Knights refused to become involved in politics, while the AFL supported candidates

d)

Unlike the AFL, the Knights refused to admit African Americans and women.

30.

The first nationwide strike took place in 1877 and primarily involved which industry?

a)

railroads

b)

textiles

c)

steel

d)

meatpacking

31.

How would you characterize the role of government in labor disputes like the Great Railroad Strike and the Pullman strike?

a)

uninvolved in labor disputes

b)

actively sympathetic to the concerns of organized labor

c)

actively sympathetic to the concerns of management

d)

unaware of the severity of the conflicts

32.

In the late 19th century, employers had the advantage over workers in labor disputes. Which of the following were used by employers to give them an advantage?

a)

the willingness of governmental authorities to send troops to break strikes

b)

the ability to hire and fire workers at will, and the use of "yellow dog" contracts

c)

the use of court injunctions against strikers

d)

All of these answers are correct

33.

Which is an accurate statement about demographic trends in the late nineteenth century?

a)

Natural birthrates rose dramatically

b)

Death rates rose dramatically

c)

The proportion of Americans moving to rural areasrose

d)

The proportion of Americans living in cities rose

34.

What was the most important difference between the immigrants who arrived in the United States before the 1880s and those who arrived after?

a)

Later immigrants were more likely to hail from southern and eastern Europe

b)

Later immigrants were subject to deportation under the new category of "illegal immigrant."

c)

Later immigrants came with more industrial skills and higher levels of education

d)

Later immigrants came to the United States primarily for political reasons

35.

New immigrants were drawn to the United States for all the following reasons EXCEPT _______.

a)

the hope of finding a profitable job

b)

America's generous federal welfare program

c)

political or religious oppression in their home countries.

d)

declining opportunities for rural workers throughout much of the world

36.

What was the primary solution to the realization that cities could hardly survive, let alone grow, without improved transportation?

a)

one-way streats

b)

electric streetcars

c)

horse-drawn trolley

d)

the cable car

37.

Thanks in part to a devastating fire in 1871, which city became the site of many new skyscrapers such as the Reliance Building?

a)

New York

b)

Boston

c)

Philadelphia

d)

Chicago

38.

What urban housing design, once hailed as a helpful innovation, turned out to be a dangerous blight on the cityscape?

a)

the projects

b)

the settlement house

c)

the dumbbell tenement

d)

the skyscrape

39.

The urban political machines stayed in power in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century because _____.

a)

they kept immigrants from getting jobs

b)

no one exposed their corrupt practices

c)

they supported the Democratic Party, which dominated national politics

d)

they effectively provided needed services to the poorer city dwellers

40.

Which is NOT true of political machines?

a)

They enriched the political bosses

b)

They served as a crude welfare system

c)

They convinced city-dwellers that government should not be trusted to help the needy

d)

They modernized city government and made it more effective

41.

What religious movement encouraged followers to focus on saving souls by improving the societal conditions?

a)

Favoritism

b)

Nativism

c)

Social Gospel

d)

Social Darwinism

42.

A new experiment in providing social services to slum-dwellers featured centers where middle-class women lived among the poor, providing amenities, and teaching American ways to immigrants. This experiment was called the _____.

a)

vaudeville house.

b)

rescue mission

c)

settlement house

d)

Social Gospel

43.

Which of the following statements best describes the typical pattern of immigrant life?

a)

Hostile to Anglo-Saxon ways, immigrants crowded together in "foreign quarters," embracing each other's cultural contributions while resisting assimilation.

b)

Shaped by their rural peasant backgrounds, European immigrant men married quickly and bought a farm as soon as they could

c)

Clustered into ever-changing neighborhoods in the cities, with a church or synagogue at the center, ethnic communities both preserved Old World flavor and eased the transition to an Americanized culture

d)

Stripped of their religious and linguistic identity, immigrants dispersed into the general population mix of the city, rapidly assimilating into their adopted homeland

44.

Frances Willard led the Victorian campaign against ____.

a)

child labor

b)

alcohol

c)

poverty

d)

monopolies

45.

Why did the public education system explode in the late-nineteenth century?

a)

the influence of German and Scandinavian education reformers

b)

the need for individuals with technical and managerial know-how

c)

the rise of political machines in urban areas

d)

the concern of religious institutions about a breakdown in morals

46.

How did industrialization change settlement patterns in American cities?

a)

It resulted in a decline in real estate prices with increasing pollution

b)

It hampered transportation development, as most wanted to live downtown

c)

It resulted in most of the poor moving to areas far outside city centers

d)

It reversed the order of settlement, as the wealthy moved to the outskirts

47.

Which of the following was NOT a trend in education in the late nineteenth century?

a)

Many new colleges were established, underwritten by grants from both private philanthropists and government

b)

Marginal groups like blacks and immigrants looked to education as a way to get ahead

c)

Literacy rose sharply

d)

City girls and boys, as required by law in most states, attended school together for most of the workday

48.

Establishment of "normal schools" and the rise of new nursing and law schools reflected a trend toward ____.

a)

practical and professional training

b)

the impact of the new field of psychology

c)

public-supported education replacing private colleges

d)

the narrowing of educational opportunities for women

49.

Which of the following best describes the national political climate during this period?

a)

nostalgic, with the legacy of the Civil War shaping most policy

b)

corrupt, with merit no longer considered for civil service appointments

c)

stalemate, with mixed party control throughout

d)

democratized, with greater numbers of people permitted to vote

50.

Which of the following were important political issues during this time period?

a)

dismantling the spoils system

b)

pensions for veterans

c)

tariffs

d)

All of these answers are correct

51.

Which event contributed most directly to the passage of the Civil Service, or Pendleton, Act of 1883?

a)

the political scandals of the Grant administration

b)

the impeachment of Andrew Johnson

c)

the assassination of James Garfield

d)

the contested election of Rutherford B. Hayes

52.

The Interstate Commerce Commission was created in 1887, to allow the federal government to________.

a)

regulate railroad shipping charges between states

b)

build a national highway system between states

c)

settle land disputes between settlers and Native Americans

d)

extend services to rural regions

53.

Which of the following political parties was made up primarily of farmers and other workers?

a)

the Suffragette Party

b)

the Populist Party

c)

the Freedom Party

d)

the Socialist Party

54.

The Populist movement arose from all the following factors EXCEPT______.

a)

falling crop production that drove down agricultural prices

b)

tariffs that provided protection to manufacturers

c)

discriminatory railroad rates

d)

the high costs of mortgages and crop storage

55.

As a result of the depression of 1893, ____________.

a)

new attitudes toward poverty and government responsibility emerged

b)

the federal government adopted a silver standard of currency

c)

the Populists expanded their following to the urban working classes

d)

the Democrats and Republicans unified around strong leaders

56.

Grover Cleveland set up the most volatile issue of the 1896 election when, in response to the depression of 1893, he _______.

a)

passed the largest protective tariff in U.S. history

b)

initiated a large public works program

c)

ended federal purchases of silver

d)

called for the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands

57.

The 1896 election was important because it____________.

a)

showed that the American people would reject radicalism

b)

brought progressive politicians into power

c)

broke the political stalemate and began an era of strong presidents

d)

completely discredited the free silver crusade

58.

Which of the following statements best describes Booker T. Washington's attitude toward race relations?

a)

Blacks should leave the United States and seek their own homeland in Africa.

b)

Blacks needed to join together to guard their rights even if by violent means

c)

Blacks should actively demand their political and civil rights but only through peaceful protest

d)

Blacks should accept the racial caste system while working for economic advancement

59.

Ida B. Wells led a nationwide campaign against _______.

a)

lynching

b)

interracial marriage

c)

disfranchisement

d)

school segregation

60.

Assess the significance of William Henry Seward to America's "new empire."

a)

Preparing the way for American acquisition, he led successful naval assaults on Honolulu and Manila

b)

Though a "desk general," he persuaded Congress to reform America's defenses and build a modern army and navy

c)

Though his major accomplishment was the purchase of Alaska, he envisioned U.S. commercial dominance of the Pacific

d)

Believing that empire moves ever westward, he arranged U.S. acquisition of Hawaii and Samoa

61.

As a result of a theory championed by Alfred Thayer Mahan, the U.S. Navy ____________.

a)

was mothballed out of existence

b)

was transformed into a modern, steam-driven institution

c)

engaged in several wars with European rivals

d)

shrank in size to its lowest numbers since the days of Andrew Jackson

62.

Why did the United States go to war against Spain?

a)

to protect American business interests in Cuba

b)

to civilize those under Spanish colonial rule

c)

to increase industrial production by supplying the navy

d)

to conquer a Catholic nation

63.

Which of the following was a central anti-imperialist argument against annexing the Philippines?

a)

The benefits of a new colony could be derived without spending resources on annexation

b)

Annexing the Philippines would put whites into unhealthy contact with Asians

c)

Annexing the Philippines would stifle domestic production of goods

d)

The United States should not be responsible for a colony occupied mainly by Catholics

64.

John Hay issued the "open door" notes to ______.

a)

permit more Chinese laborers into the United States

b)

encourage more Chinese exports into the United States

c)

keep Europeans from establishing exclusive closed Chinese markets

d)

demonstrate America's new military power