Time Period 6: Cold War Battle

Time Period 6 review questions for Bryant High School APUSH Cold War battle!

Seperate but Equal

98. What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

99. The doctrine of “separate but equal” was reversed in what 1954 landmark decision?

Poll taxes, literacy tests

100. Name two things that were used to deny African Americans the ballot.

Booker T. Washington

101. Who gave the famous Atlanta Compromise Speech in which the speaker called on African Americans to seek economic opportunities rather than political rights?

African Americans should fight for their equal rights and higher opportunities, rather than passively submit to whites

102. Explain the POV of W.E.B. Du Bois on how to achieve African American equality.

Exodusters

103. African Americans who migrated to Kansas were known as ___________

Irish and Chinese

104. Who were the two predominant immigrant groups that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?

Buffalo

105. The virtual extermination of the __________ doomed the Plains Indians’ nomadic way of life.

Century of Dishonor

106. What is the title of Helen Hunt Jackson’s famous book that aroused public awareness of the federal government’s long record of betraying and cheating Native Americans?

Reform the govt’s Native American policy, assimilating natives into American life and dissolving tribes as legal entities

107. What were the goals of the Dawes’ Act of 1887?

Cheap, unsettled land played a key role in making America more democratic; The frontier shaped a distinctive American spirit of democracy and egalitarianism

108. Give two concepts that were included in Frederick Jackson Turner’s essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”. (Frontier Thesis)

Companies control both the production and distribution of product

109. What is vertical integration?

Scientific management to increase production and lower labor costs

110. What is Taylorism?

Concrete examples of the ideal of the self-made man

111. What did the popular Horatio Alger Jr. stories provide?

Terence V. Powderly

112. The Knights of Labor were led by whom?

Create a cooperative society in which laborers, not capitalists, owned the industries in which they worked

113. What was the goal of the Knights of Labor?

the Haymarket Square Riot

114. What event happened that was unfairly blamed on the Knights and as a result the public associated them with anarchists?

The IWW used violence

115. What was the difference between the Knights of Labor and the IWW?

American Federation of Labor

116. Samuel Gompers led the ________________

Higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions

117. What were the primary issues addressed by the AFL?

President Grover Cleveland ordered federal troops to Chicago to crush the strike

118. How did the Pullman Palace Car Strike end?

Prior to 1880, they were from Britain and W. Europe. Beginning in 1880, they were from Italy, Russia, Poland, and Austria-Hungary

119. What is the difference between old immigrants (prior to 1880) and new immigrants (beginning in the 1880’s)?

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

120. What was the name of the act that prohibited the immigration of Chinese to America?

Social Darwinism

121. Name the belief that industrial and urban problems are part of a natural evolutionary process that humans cannot control and that the fittest survive in both nature and society.

the Gospel of Wealth

122. What was the belief expressed by Andrew Carnegie that as the guardians of society’s wealth, the rich have a duty to serve society?

the Social Gospel

123. Name the reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to confront social problems.

Railroads were using discriminatory rates to exploit farmers; Big business used high tariffs to exploit farmers; Deflationary monetary policy based on gold hurt farmers; Corporations charged exorbitant prices for fertilizers and farm machinery

124. What were a couple of the causes of agrarian (farmers) discontent in the late 1800’s?

Increasing the money supply with free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16:1, Using the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 to regulate railroads and prevent discrimination against small customers, William Jennings Bryan in 1896

125. List 2 things that the Populist Party supported.

Congress to issue a federal income tax

126. What does the 16th Amendment to the constitution allow?

Popular election of senators

127. What does the 17th Amendment provide for?

Prohibition

128. What did the 18th Amendment do?

Women :)

129. Who gained the right to vote with the 19th Amendment?

Investigative reporters, promoting social and political reform by exposing corruption and urban problems

130. Who were the muckrakers?

The Jungle and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and Pure Food and Drug Act

131. What was the name of the novel written by Upton Sinclair and what act was passed as a consequence of this book?

Jacob Riis

132. Who wrote the book How the Other Half Lives?

Ida Tarbell

133. Who was one of the foremost women in the muckraking movement and published a highly critical history of the Standard Oil Company?

Square Deal

134. Teddy Roosevelt promoted a ________ ________ for labor by using arbitration to settle the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.

Progressive

135. What was the name of the political party that nominated Teddy Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election?

High tariffs, banking problems, and the trusts

136. What were the three elements of Wilson’s Triple Wall of Privilege?

Jane Addams

137. Who was the founder of Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house dedicated to helping the urban poor?

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

138. Carry Nation was one of the best known and most outspoken leaders of what organization that convinced many women that they had a moral responsibility to improve society by working for prohibition?

Intellectual Black citizens for social change and integration

139. Who were the “talented tenth?”

the KKK

140. D.W. Griffith’s epic film, The Birth of a Nation in 1915, became controversial because of its depiction of what organization’s activities as heroic and commendable?