- What two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?
Your answer:
the money supply and civil-service reform
civil-service reform and working conditions in factories
the money supply and urban slums
civil-service reform and imperialism
imperial expansion and immigration
- Which of the following factors was most likely to determine one's party affiliation during the late nineteenth century?
Your answer:
economic standing
geographic location
age
education level
ethnic and religious ties
- On the grassroots level in the late nineteenth century, what sorts of issues would be most likely to animate political debate?
Your answer:
the import duties that were charged on hundreds of commodities
issues such as prohibition and tax support to parochial schools that pitted ethnic and social groups against each other
national legislation to improve working conditions and control the railroads
the need to modernize the American navy so that it could compete with navies of the great powers
the drive to create a “genteel” culture that reflected middle class values
- The Pendleton Act provided for
Your answer:
civil-service reform.
using silver as well as gold to back paper currency.
separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
higher protective tariff rates.
congressional power to investigate and oversee railroad activities.
- Grover Cleveland, the only Democrat elected president between 1857 and 1912, believed that government should
Your answer:
refrain from paternalistic meddling in the economy.
actively intervene in the economy to guide the nation's industrial development.
work to develop a humanitarian form of industrialism.
regulate the trusts and provide drought relief to western farmers.
create a money system based on silver, in order to banish debt and end the depression.
- The Patrons of Husbandry was
Your answer:
an organization that provided mail-order brides to bachelor farmers.
a group of feminists who sought equality for husbands and wives.
a fraternal organization of the Dutch descendants of New Netherland "patroons."
a “men’s liberation” group that sought to liberate American males from matriarchal bondage.
an organization of farmers, also called the Grange.
- Under the plan by Southern Alliance leader Charles Macune,
Your answer:
the federal government was to establish a series of branch banks to hold federal deposits and help to control the money supply.
late-nineteenth-century American capitalists attempted to corner all the silver that was held outside the federal treasury.
farmers could store crops in government warehouses and then borrow against those crops until prices rose.
farmers would “raise less corn and more hell.”
the federal government would provide special agricultural loans from a fund created out of grain excise taxes.
- The "separate but equal" doctrine meant that
Your answer:
although the executive and legislative branches had separate powers and responsibilities, the two branches were constitutionally equal in importance.
southern schools were segregated, but they had similar buildings, equivalent equipment, and equally qualified and equally paid teachers.
as long as facilities were equivalent, they did not have to be integrated.
the northern and southern approaches to race relations were completely different, but as far as blacks were concerned they amounted to the same thing.
labor and capital had different goals and different world views, but they were all equal under the law.
- Coxey's Army wanted
Your answer:
another increase in veterans' benefits.
a $500 million public-works program funded with paper money.
a chance to go to Cuba to join the Rough Riders.
a gold standard to stabilize the economy.
an expansion of the convict-lease system to cover most basic government services.
- What was the major issue in the 1896 presidential election?
Your answer:
agrarian unrest
free silver
imperialism
gridlock in Washington
personal corruption
- In the 1880s and 1890s, many Americans argued that the United States should take a more expansionist role in the world because
Your answer:
to be a great nation, the United States had to have an empire.
American economic health depended on finding overseas markets for American products.
Americans had a mission to bring Christianity and civilization to the world's weaker races.
a great nation had to have a great navy, and a great navy needed bases abroad.
all of these
- What was John Hay referring to when he spoke of a "splendid little war"?
Your answer:
that blacks had served with distinction in the Spanish-American War
that American troops fighting in Cuba had proven themselves to be well trained and well equipped
that the short and successful war with Spain had awakened a new consciousness of national strength
that a small and antiquated American navy had taken advantage of American spirit to whip the larger and more modern Spanish fleet
C and D
- How did the United States deal with Cuba in the years after the Spanish-American War?
Your answer:
by keeping American troops in Cuba for a number of years
by improving public health, education, and sanitation on the island
by asserting the right to intervene in Cuba when it was necessary
by establishing a permanent naval base on the island
all of these
- In the Philippines after the Spanish-American War,
Your answer:
Filipino resistance fighters fought a protracted and bloody guerrilla war against United States rule.
American agricultural producers, hoping to establish a tariff against Filipino products, engineered quick independence for the former Spanish colony.
Filipino patriots petitioned the United States Congress for annexation and statehood.
the United States imposed military rule and announced that self-government could not be granted until the Philippines had achieved economic self-sufficiency.
civil war erupted between nationalist paramilitary groups and Spanish landowners.
- What was the impact the introduction of photoengraving in magazines and newspapers?
Your answer:
It created thousands of new jobs for artists and engravers.
Periodicals now would focus on a more narrow range of stories—only those that could be well illustrated with photos.
It spurred public action to tackle child labor, slum housing, and industrial safety.
Advertising revenues dropped, because readers noticed the photos and not the advertisements.
Newspapers had to cost more on the newsstand, and so they lost circulation.