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WorksheetsThe American Yawp Chapters 15-21– Exam
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 38mins
In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Dallas
How did railroads transform the American economy?
Created a new white color middle class of managers
Inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class
Increased the role of government in the economy
All of the above
Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities
1880
1900
1910
1920
By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?
20%
33%
50%
60%
All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT
Rotary clubs
Workmen’s clubs
Mutual-aid societies
Parish churches
Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Progressive Party
Immigrant voters were nearly equally divided in their party allegiance
From 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were murdered by white mobs.
139
345
870
5,000
______________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
Ida Tarbell
Ida B. Wells
Lincoln Steffens
Booker T. Washington
What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Violence and intimidation
All of the above
What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Agriculture
Textile mills
Tobacco production
Furniture making
Which of the following statements regarding “muscular Christianity” are true:
Motivated by a fear that the country had become a nation of emasculated men
Sought to stiffen young men’s’ backbones by putting them in touch with their primal manliness
Built summer camps and gymnasiums where young American men could strengthen their bodies and spirits
All of the above
Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Kate Chopin
Both of these
Neither of these
When did the United States begin trading with China?
1784
1831
1854
1911
What was the Open Door Policy?
A commitment to free trade throughout the Pacific Rim
A demand for the abolition of all tariffs
The use of gunboat diplomacy in establishing trade with Japan
A call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets
How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?
President McKinley sent the U.S. Army into China without consulting congress
American troops fought alongside British troops in a western coalition designed to bring peace
The Americans sent diplomats to protect missionaries and businesses
The United States did not respond formally to the rebellion due to isolationist commitments
All of the following statements regarding the Guano Islands Act of 1856 are true EXCEPT
Guano was a popular fertilizer that was integral to industrial farming
This legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected
This legislation authorized and encouraged Americans to venture into the seas and claim islands with guano deposits for the United States
These acquisitions were the first insular, unincorporated territories of the United States
What economic activity most united Brazil and the United States in the early nineteenth century?
Sugar trade
America textile manufacturing
Slave trade
Mahogany trade
Why did President Wilson authorize the invasion of Veracruz, Mexico?
Victoriano Huerta executed democratically elected president, Francisco Madero
Americans with financial investments in Mexico asked for intervention
Mexican forces mistakenly arrested American sailors
All of the above
During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT
Religion
Oil
Education
Access to trading routes
All of the following statements regarding the Philippine-American War are true EXCEPT
The United States received the territory of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War
The Filipinos were fighting in attempt to earn independence
The war began with the assassination of Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Philippine Republic
The beginning of the Philippine-American War was marked with confusion
As President Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?
Targeted commercial raiding
Revamped coastal defense
The construction of small, fast “brown water” ships
Creating battleships and a “blue water” navy that would win battles against rival fleets
How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?
By creating the Great White Fleet to project American Power in the Pacific Ocean and around the world
Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies
By encouraging the independence movement in the Philippines
Through an aggressive avoidance of dollar diplomacy and gunboat diplomacy
Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT
Missionaries
Teachers
Diplomats
Medical professionals
Which ethnic group faces the most rigid immigration restrictions?
Chinese
Italians
Irish
Jews
Which ethnic group was most numerous among the Catholic bishops in the United States?
Polish
Italians
Irish
Germans
Catholic clergymen who took up the name “Americanists” believed in all of the following EXCEPT
Catholic immigrants should try to assimilate into the English-speaking mainstream
Public schools were a danger to the Catholic faith
The Church should close “ethic parishes”
The separation of church and state would benefit Catholicism
The Homestead Act granted official title to 160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?
One year
Two years
Five years
Seven years
What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?
Railroad work
Gold mining
Military work as Indian fighters
Access to land for agriculture
The Dakota Uprising of 1862 began with what event?
Civil War Era reforms to western Indian policy
The death of five white settlers at the hands of four young Santee men
A Sioux ambush at Redwood Ferry
Governor Alexander Ramsay’s new use of the militia to disarm Sioux hunters
What did the United States demand from the Comanche leading to the Red River War?
They had no demands. The official policy of the U.S. government was to call for the extinction of the Comanche
The Comanche were instructed to worship the Christian God and renounce their traditional spiritual practices
The United States demanded that the Comanche settle on government reservations
The Red River War did not involve the Comanche
How was the transcontinental railroad funded?
Wealthy private business owners
Public stock offerings
Grants and loans from the federal government
Bonds sold to foreign investors
The purpose of Western cattle drives was to:
move cattle to railheads for shipment to markets
provide entertainment for settlers
train horses for ranch work
explore new territories in the West
Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers.
Mexican
Native American
African
British-Canadian
Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Memphis
Which group received more land from the government?
Homesteading families
Railroad companies
Both received nearly equal an equal amount
Neither group received land from the government
What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act?
Splintered vast Native American reservations into individual family homesteads
Determined the amount of land that would be given to each major railroad company
Modified the original Homestead Act to increase land available to private settlers
All of the above
The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be called the Ghost Dance
Dead relatives would return to Earth
Drought would end and the buffalo would return
Anglo settlers would disappear in an apocalyptic disaster
All of the above
Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?
There are no indications of women participating in rodeos prior to 1928
1%
5%
10%
What was Frederick Jackson Turner's 'Frontier Thesis?'
An argument that European socialism had created an opportunity for the United States to create an international empire
American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit
The belief that Manifest Destiny was an immoral reading of scripture
All of the above
When did Reconstruction begin?
Before the war ended
With Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
When the radical Republicans seized control of Congress
Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of the following effects?
Criminalized black leisure
Limited black mobility
Locked many into exploitative farming contracts
All of the above
How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance?
Made slavery illegal in all American states
Asserted the federal government’s power to enforce the Bill of Rights over the authority of the states
Abolished vagrancy laws in the South
Divided the U.S. South into five military zones to ensure the creation of fair state governments
Black delegates actively participated in revising the state constitutions of southern states. In addition to election reform, what other major accomplishment did these delegates achieve?
Established public school systems
Forming racially integrated mental asylums
Reinstated an important tariff on Egyptian cotton
Created hundreds of new racially integrated churches
General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the following?
Destroy railroads in Georgia to weaken the Confederate war effort
Create voting rights for African Americans in temporary Union southern legislatures
Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for freed people
None of the above
Which of the following goal of freedpeople was the least successful?
Reuniting families
Attending schools
Gaining access to land
Establishing independent churches
Black churches helped to develop political organization in black communities by:
providing a space for meetings and leadership development
discouraging political involvement
focusing only on religious activities
limiting community gatherings
Why did women’s rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment?
It introduced the word “male” into the Constitution for the first time
Had no mention of gender
Women’s rights leaders tended to oppose anything that enhanced the power of the federal government over the power of the states
Most women’s right leaders opposed granting equal rights to African Americans, and the Fourteenth Amendment promised to do that
What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the mourning for Union soldiers buried in Charleston?
Daughters of Liberty
Lights of Union
Patriotic Association
United Daughters of the Union
What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies?
Attacking black candidates and office holders and frightening voters with threats of violence
Targeting freedpeople who tried to purchase land or otherwise become too independent from the white masters they used to rely on
White men beat or shot black men with relative impunity, and did so over minor squabbles, labor disputes, longstanding grudges, and crimes of passion
All of the above
Why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins?
He was a former slave who tried to buy his master’s land at auction
He was accused of trying to rape a white girl
He was a white sheriff and tax collector who supported freedpeople’s civil rights
He was a black minister who had organized a voting campaign in Mississippi
What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?
Sharecropping
Wage labor
Apprenticeships
Chattel slavery
What was the most significant change in the American economy as a result of the Civil War?
Increased presence of the federal government in the economy
Temporary abolition of the income tax
Massive boosts in agricultural production
Reduction of tariffs and a rise in free trade
The Depression of 1873 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. What was the name of that company?
Jay Cooke and Company
Wells Fargo
Bank of the United States
B & O Railroad
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following?
Gave the presidency to Samuel J. Tilden
Promised the removal of federal troops from the South
Lost the White House for the Republican Party
Solved problems of voter fraud in Virginia and Texas
Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?
Marketing
Management
Accounting
Industrial production
What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?
The turn to skilled labor
Increased international demand
The adoption of interchangeable parts
Government loans
A wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?
United States Steel
Standard Oil
General Electric
American Tobacco
By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps percent of the nation’s wealth.
66%
75%
90%
Which of the following most accurately describes the arguments of Social Darwinism?
State welfare and private charity would lead to degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak
Religion was a force of weakness that modern society will inevitably eradicate
Scientific ideas the only source of true knowledge, therefore theories are just as valuable as facts
Inequalities in wealth would lead to social unrest and eventual revolution
The event that most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor was:
the Haymarket Square Riot
the Pullman Strike
the Homestead Strike
the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Which of the following groups was the most radical?
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
United Auto Workers Union
The final two decades of the nineteenth century saw over strikes and lockouts
1,200
8,000
20,000
Which group founded the People’s Party (also known as the Populists)?
Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains
Northeastern union laborers
Asian immigrants
African Americans in northern cities
What did the Populists propose in the Omaha Platform?
Nationalizing the country’s railroad and telegraph systems to ensure that essential services would be run in the best interests of the people
Establishment of a network of federally-managed warehouses—called subtreasuries—which would extend government loans to farmers
Promoted an inflationary monetary policy by monetizing silver
All of the above
Why were southerners unable to maintain unity in the People’s Party?
Lack of coordination
Racial conflict
Economic depression
Ideological conflict between leaders of the party
Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?
He owned a controlling interest in a silver mining firm
He wanted to decrease inflation to stabilize the economy
He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts
He believed that the Gold Standard was inhibiting American exports
The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?
Elected over 1,000 candidates to American political offices
Gained over 150,000 registered members
Garnered nearly one million votes for Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs in 1912
All of the above
Who advocated racial accomodationism?
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Eugene Debs
Ida B. Wells
Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?
The belief that Christ would return to Earth in the next decade
A theological defense of segregation
A religious of temperance activists
The goal of saving society as well as souls
W. E. B. Du Bois, founder the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because, Du Bois believed that Washington ________.
Was not bold enough
Was too radical
Was corrupt and immoral
Lacked the skills to organize a large movement
All of the following statements regarding the National Women’s Party are true EXCEPT
Led by Alice Paul
Picketed the White House
Advocated violent resistance to sexism
Over 150 members were arrested and imprisoned
All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Al Smith
Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Edward Bellamy
Ida B. Wells
Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation?
John Muir
Gifford Pinchot
Alice Hamilton
All of the above
15. Jane Addams’ activism included which of the following?
She co-founded Hull House to support immigrants and the poor.
She was a leading figure in the American Revolution.
She invented the telephone.
She was a famous jazz musician.
