Semester 2 : Exam 1

Round 2 of Final Exams welcome back everybody!! good luck!! I also put it in Knowt to study on it more :)!!

In which of the following ways were the boundaries of freedom redrawn in the United States during the nineteenth century?

Several states adopted literacy and residency requirements in order to restrict immigrant voting.

Where was the focus of Progressive politics?

in the cities

In "The Souls of Black Folk," W. E. B. DuBois argues that Blacks brought three gifts to America. What are the "gifts" he is referring to?

song, sweat, and spirit

Which of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century is true?

The promise of mass consumption became the foundation for a new understanding of freedom.

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 is correct?

Children of the striking workers publicly marched up New York's Fifth Avenue.

How did American racial attitudes shape South African politics?

The Union of South Africa followed the model of U.S. segregation with its own system of apartheid.

The Social Gospel

was an effort to expand the appeal of the Protestant Church into poor neighborhoods.

In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association

made its peace with nativism and racism.

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of Blacks in the South is correct?

White leaders presented disenfranchisement as a "good government" measure.

Which statement best describes a major difference between the North and the South during the Populist era?

The North held more capital and provided more manufactured goods.

The Haymarket Affair led to the decline of which group?

Knights of Labor

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on which of the following grounds?

The United States needed to Christianize the Filipinos.

Which of the following describes an effect of U.S. Chinese exclusion policies of the late nineteenth century?

In protest, some Chinese refused to carry required identification papers

Which statement best describes the U.S. government during the Gilded Age?

The federal government remained relatively small, while state and local government expanded in scope.

Right after the Spanish-American War, what did proponents of American imperialism use to justify their arguments?

American empire helped facilitate "the progress of civilization."

Theodore Roosevelt wanted immigrants to "Americanize." How were they supposed to do it?

by abandoning the culture and customs of their home country

Southern "demagogues"

mobilized white voters using extreme appeals to racism.

What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?

It allowed southern governments to preserve white supremacy while coping with defeat.

The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of

a mature consumer economy.

Which of these wealthy men was an immigrant who helped spark the second industrial revolution?

Andrew Carnegie

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire

led to legislation aimed at improving factory safety standards.

With the Redeemers in power in the South,

convict labor became a profitable venture for lumber companies.

What did Social Darwinists believe?

They believed that human progress was a natural process and, therefore, the government should not interfere with it.

The "robber barons" of the Gilded Age were

typically unscrupulous, dictatorial, and unfriendly toward labor.

The Knights of Labor

was an inclusive group that called for an array of reforms including the eight-hour workday.

Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialist Party in the election of 1912?

The party's proposal to nationalize railroads and banks, and to provide unemployment relief, expressed popular Progressive thought.

President Grant's "Peace Policy"

in some ways paralleled southern Reconstruction.

What made farm life difficult in the Great Plains region during the late nineteenth century?

On remote homesteads, farm families suffered from loneliness and isolation.

Which statement is true of urban workers in the 1890s?

Populist speeches failed to resonate with them.

Which statement best describes the debate over coinage during the Populist era?

Populists did not want their broad program reduced to the slogan of "free silver."

Who voiced anti-imperialist sentiments?

novelists William Dean Howells and Mark Twain

Which statement is true of the men who worked in the corporate west?

Wage workers largely replaced independent miners after 1848.

What did the term "white man's burden" mean?

Domination of non-whites by white people was necessary for the progress of civilization.

The Grange was an organization that

established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output.

Which of the following statements accurately assesses the significance of wage labor in America during the Gilded Age?

More and more Americans experienced wage labor as a permanent condition on the edge of poverty.

Which of the following statements about urban Progressives is true?

They sought to improve public transportation.

Which of the following was true of Republicans during the Gilded Age?

They supported a high tariff to protect American industry.

The "Bible Belt" refers to

a part of the South where whites embraced the federal regulation of individual "sinful" behavior.

How did John D. Rockefeller use horizontal expansion?

He bought out competing oil-refining companies.

The "Wild West," as represented in vaudeville performance tours, Hollywood films, and dime novels,

was a mythic fantasy that romanticized and simplified the region.

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

the victim's alleged sexual conduct

President Roosevelt's "Square Deal"

distinguished between good and bad corporations.

Which statement was true of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century?

Its economy was under the control of giant corporations.

How did the federal government transform the culture and lifestyle of Plains Indians between 1870 and 1900?

It forced Indian children to adopt new "white" names, clothing, and customs.

In what way was William Howard Taft a Progressive president?

He initiated the trust-busting of Standard Oil.

What did Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute emphasize?

vocational job education

Populists intended to do which of the following?

restore economic opportunity

Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate?

By 1880, the majority of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms, but they also lived elsewhere and performed other jobs.

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890?

The law established a precedent that the national government could regulate the economy in the interest of the public good.

Theodore Roosevelt wanted immigrants to "Americanize". How were they supposed to do it?

By abandoning the culture and the customs of their home country.