US History 2: American Yawp Final exam study

From class based on The American Yawp. Currently covers chapters 16-25, soon to cover up to chapter 30.

The Homestead Act granted official title to 160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?

Five years

What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?

Access to land for agriculture

The Dakota Uprising of 1862 began with what event?

The death of five white settlers at the hands of four young Santee men

How did President Lincoln respond to the Sioux Uprising?

Attempted to commute the sentences of captured Indians in order to maintain peace

What did the United States demand from the Comanche leading to the Red River War?

The United States demanded that the Comanche settle on government reservations

How was the transcontinental railroad funded?

Grants and loans from fed gov

What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?

To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs

Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers

Mexican

Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?

Chicago

Which group received more land from the government?

Railroad companies

What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act?

Splintered vast Native American reservations into individual family homesteads

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

All of the above

Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?

10%

What explains the popularity of Wild West shows?

All of the above

**What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?"

American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit

Taylorism attempted to use scientific principles to better handle which aspect of business?

management

What most directly explains the boost in production of McCormick reapers?

The adoption of interchangeable parts

By 1913, the United States produced one-third of the world's industrial output. This was more than __________.

All of the above, combined (a. Britain b. France c. Germany)

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

By 1900, the richest ten percent controlled perhaps _______ percent of the nation's wealth.

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

Which of the following events most seriously damaged the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Affair

Which of the following groups was the most radical?

Knights of Labor

The final two decades of the nineteenth century saw over _________ strikes and lockouts

20,000

Which group founded the People's Party (also known as the Populists)?

Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains

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

Why were southerners unable to maintain unity in the People's Party?

Racial Conflict

Why did William Jennings Bryan attack the Gold Standard?

He wanted to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts

Which of the following factors contributed to William McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election?

McKinley was able to spend five times more than Bryan on the campaign

The Socialist Party of America achieved which of the following gains in the early twentieth century?

All of the above. (A. Elected over 1,000 candidates to American political offices B. Gained over 150,000 registered members C. Garnered nearly one million votes for Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs in 1912)

The Homestead Act granted official title to 160 acre plots of land after how many years of settlement?

Five years

What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?

Access to land for agriculture

The Dakota Uprising of 1862 began with what event?

The death of five white settlers at the hands of four young Santee men

How did President Lincoln respond to the Sioux Uprising?

Attempted to commute the sentences of captured Indians in order to maintain peace

What did the United States demand from the Comanche leading to the Red River War?

The United States demanded that the Comanche settle on government reservations

How was the transcontinental railroad funded?

Grants and loans from fed gov

What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?

To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs

Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers

Mexican

Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?

Chicago

Which group received more land from the government?

Railroad companies

What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act?

Splintered vast Native American reservations into individual family homesteads

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

All of the above

Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?

10%

What explains the popularity of Wild West shows?

All of the above

**What was Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis?"

American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit

In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?

Chicago

How did railroads transform the American economy?

Inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class

Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities

1920

By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?

60%

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

Rotary clubs

Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?

Democratic

All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT

They sought to move away from the South's dependence on cotton, believing that agricultural diversification would lead to economic development

From 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were murdered by white mobs.

5,000

________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

Ida B. Wells

What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?

All of the above (a. Poll taxes b. Literacy tests c. Violence and intimidation)

What was the Lost Cause?

A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Agriculture

What was the "tainted money debate?"

The decision whether the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions would accept a large donation by John D. Rockefeller

Which of the following statements regarding "muscular Christianity" are true:

All of the above (a. Motivated by a fear that the country had become a nation of emasculated men b. Sought to stiffen young men's' backbones by putting them in touch with their primal manliness c. Built summer camps and gymnasiums where young American men could strengthen their bodies and spirits)

Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?

Both (a. Charlotte Perkins Gilman b. Kate Chopin)

when did the united states begin trading with china?

1784

what was the open door policy?

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 mickenly sent the us army into china without consulting congress

All of the following statements regarding the Guano Islands Act of 1856 are true EXCEPT

This legislation put Guano Islands on a path to statehood that later was rejected

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

During the nineteenth century, American interests in the Middle East revolved around all of the following EXCEPT

oil

All of the following statements regarding the Philippine-American War are true EXCEPT

The war began with the assassination of Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Philippine Republic

As President Theodore Roosevelt transformed the American navy by emphasizing which of the following strategies?

Creating battleships and a "blue water" navy that would win battles against rival fleets

How did the Roosevelt Corollary modify the Monroe Doctrine?

Declaring that the U.S. had the right to preemptive action through intervention in any Latin American nation to correct administrative and fiscal deficiencies

Women participated in the global influence of the United States in many ways, including as all of the following EXCEPT

diplomats

Which ethnic group faces the most rigid immigration restrictions?

chinese

At the turn of the century, the percentage of immigrants from which region decreased in relation to other regions?

eastern europe

Which ethnic group was most numerous among the Catholic bishops in the United States?

irish

Catholic clergymen who took up the name "Americanists" believed in all of the following EXCEPT

The separation of church and state would benefit Catholicism

What economic activity most united Brazil and the United States in the early nineteenth century?

sugar trade

How did progressive Democrats in the South seek to solve the problems of racial strife?

Legislating segregation

How did southern reformers seek to combat corruption

Disenfranchising black voters

In the election of 1896, 130,000 black Louisianans voted. In 1900 the number was _____________.

5,320

Which of the following definitions best describes the work of a muckraker?

Investigative journalists

What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

Separate but equal

Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902?

Northern Securities

Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

Unsafe working conditions

Who advocated for racial accomodationism?

Booker T. Washington

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

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

All of the following statements regarding the National Women's Party are true EXCEPT

Advocated for violent resistance to sexism

All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT

Al Smith

Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?

Jacob Riis

Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation?

John Miur

Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true?

All of the above (a. Spoke out against militarism b. Created an influential settlement home in Chicago c. Favored cooperation between the rich and the poor)

The Triple Entente united all of the following nations EXCEPT

The United States

Which of the following issues most concerned American diplomats prior to World War I?

Expanding transatlantic trade

Army General John "Black Jack" Pershing used all of the following technologies in his attempt to capture Pancho Villa EXCEPT

Destroyers

What was the particular spark that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie

Where did Germany first invade?

Russia

What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

A German offer to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War if they would side with Germany in WW1

How did many black leaders, including W. E. B. DuBois respond to the war?

Supporter the war effort and lobbied to include black soldiers in front-line combat positions

Women served in the armed forces during World War I. They served in all of the following positions EXCEPT

Commissioned officers

Why did the Russian army disintegrate?

The German invasion of 1916 killed several key commanders in the Russian army

What was the result of the Kaiserschlacht?

The Germans launched five failed major attacks