CC American History - Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad

Booker T. Washington

advocated vocational training for blacks

Alfred T. Mahan

promoted American expansionism via a navy

Theodore Roosevelt

fought with the Rough Riders

Emilio Aguinaldo

led the Filipino insurrection

William Jennings Bryan

advocate of free silver

James Weaver

Populist Party presidential candidate

Eugene Debs

president of the American Railway Union

John Marshall Harlan

Supreme Court justice

Frances Willard

believed politics was the place for women

Samuel Gompers

pioneered “business unionism”

William McKinley

annexed the Philippines

Jose Marti

fomented a revolution in Cuba

Homestead Strike

labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill

Teller Amendment

the United States was not to annex China

disenfranchisement

excluded from voting

Populist Party

politically active farmers

Insular Cases

argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories

WCTU

campaigned for temperance

Open Door

effort to keep free trade in China

Liberty Tracts

warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy

Plessy v. Ferguson

separate, but equal

Page Act

excluded Chinese women from entering the United States

United States v. Wong Kim Ark

gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment

Kansas Exodus

blacks migrated out of South

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:

the free and unlimited coinage of silver

The Farmers’ Alliance:

sought to improve conditions through cooperatives

The People’s Party:

evolved out of the Farmers’ Alliance

Which statement about the Peoples’ Party is FALSE?

It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform

The Populist platform:

called for public ownership of railroads

Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?

Higher tariffs

The Populists:

relied on women orators such as Mary Elizabeth Lease

The severe depression of 1893:

led to increased conflict between capitol and labor

The 1894 Pullman Strike:

collapsed when union leaders were jailed

How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

William Jennings Bryan:

ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform

The silver issue:

refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

argued in favor of the gold standard

The election of 1896:

is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign

Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE?

William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

Public schools

In the South, the Redeemers:

imposed a new racial order

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

promised prosperity based on industrial expansion

Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?

Blacks

By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:

were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists

Between 1890 and 1906, southern state governments and white Southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT:

racial tests

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause

Which statement about the South after 1890 is FALSE?

Whites feared that northerners and the federal government would abolish the Jim Crow laws

Plessy v. Ferguson:

sanctioned racial segregation

In “Plessy v. Ferguson” (1896), the Supreme Court:

ruled that “separate but equal” accommodations were constitutional

All of the following were used by southern whites to maintain dominance over blacks EXCEPT:

outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes

At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching:

was an act of violence directed mostly at black men

Twenty years after the end of the Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South:

suffered the most from the region’s poor conditions

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

As a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part

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

It helped southern whites cope with defeat but still preserve white supremacy

The new immigrants:

came from southern and eastern Europe

The Immigration Restriction League:

wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

prohibited any Chinese form entering the United States

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: (2)

was rage first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people form entering the United States

The Supreme Courth decision “United States v. Wong Kim Ark” ruled that:

the Fourteenth Amendment gave asians born in the United States citizenship

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:

encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:

restricted membership to only skilled workers

The American Federation of Labor’s founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of “freedom of contract” to:

argue against interference by judges with workers’ right to organize unions

Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women’s era because:

wine’s economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded

in 1900, most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in:

the garment industry and as domestic laborers

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

moved forman demanding prohibition to pushing for women’s suffrage

In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association:

argued that native-born white women’s voices would counteract the “ignorant foreign vote”

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports

American territorial expansionism:

was a feature of American life since well before independence

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

yellow journalists

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?

The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties

The Teller Amendment stated that:

the United States would not annex Cuba

The Spanish-American War:

brought the Philippines Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control

In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the Philippines:

was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the Filipinos

The Plat Amendment:

authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba

President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT:

the United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy

The Philippine War:

was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War

All of the following statements about Emilio Anguinaldo are true EXCEPT:

Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance

The “white man’s burden”:

comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling

Which of the following stated that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories recently acquired by the United States?

Insular Cases

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:

held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War

During the “Age of Empire,” American racial attitudes:

had a global impact

Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League:

believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad

T/F: The Homestead Strike demonstrated that neither a powerful union nor public opinion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations

True

T/F: The Populists made remarkable efforts to unite black and white small farmers on a common political and economic program

True

T/F: Populists made determined efforts to appeal to industrial workers and ultimately succeeded in getting labor’s support

False

T/F: William McKinley championed a government that would help ordinary Americans

False