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- mt 77. After the Spanish-American War, Filipinos led by Emilio Aguinaldo fought for their independence. Whom did they fight against?
- a. the United States
- mt 15. The first prospectors who populated the western mining frontier
- a. skimmed gold from the earth's surface and from streams.
- mt 66. By the 1890s, the position of the Republican Party on racial issues was to
- c. build white support and leave blacks to their fate.
- mt 8. Republicans in the South were composed of a coalition of
- b. northern army officers, nonslaveholding southern whites, and southern blacks.
- mt 41. After the Civil War, one way business leaders tried to eliminate competition was by
- a. forming monopolies or trusts
- mt 32. Which member of the temperance movement gained national recognition in 1900 when she raided saloons armed with a hatchet?
- c. Carrie Nation
- mt 31. Some Americans of the late 1800s and early 1900s believed in social Darwinism. This idea held that
- c. society benefits when strong businesses replace weak businesses
- mt 3. Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction
- d. offered general amnesty to all but high-ranking Confederates willing to pledge loyalty to the Union; when 10 percent of a state's 1860 voters took this oath, the state would be restored to the Union.
- mt 76. American military strength during the Spanish-American War came mainly from
- e. its steel navy.
- mt 12. The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by
- b. state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans
- mt 60. During the period from 1865 to 1900, disputes between labor and management were often marked by
- a. the use of violence by both sides
- mt 63. Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the election of 1876
- d. By a special electoral commission
- mt 54. Many wealthy American industralists of the late 19th century used the theory of Social Darwinism to
- b. justify monopolistic actions
- mt 1. Who tried to prevent freedmen from gaining political power?
- a. members of the Ku Klux Klan
- mt 68. William James
- c. Helped to establish modern behaviorial pyschology
- mt 75. All of the following became U.S. possessions as a result of the Spanish-American War EXCEPT: a. Cuba b. Puerto Rico c. Guam d. the Philippines
- a. Cuba
- mt 59. The actions of Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, and Booker T. Washington illustrate that reform in the United States has
- a. utilized a variety of methods to achieve many goals
- mt 85. America's initial Open Door policy was essentially an argument for
- a. free trade.
- mt 44. Populists saw farmers and laborers as being
- b. part of a single producer class.
- mt 38. Why were people of the new immigration less welcome in America than immigrants of earlier years?
- d. Many people claimed that new immigrants were taking jobs from native-born Americans; The customs and religions of new immigrants were different from most native-born Americans; Many new immigrants were poor and uneducated.
- mt 22. The emergence of modern labor management was characterized by
- b. the elimination of brain work from manual labor.
- mt 5. In 1872 Congress pardoned all Confederates. In 1877 U.S. troops were pulled out of the South. These two acts resulted in
- d. loss of political power for blacks
- mt 92. During the building of the Panama Canal, all of the following difficulties were encountered except
- a. guerrilla warfare waged by Panamanian rebels against the United States.
- mt 73. The first battle of the Spanish-American War took place in
- d. the Philippines
- mt 90. Teddy Roosevelt's role in the Panamanian Revolution involved:
- a. using American military forces to block Colombian troops from crossing the isthmus and crushing the revolt.
- mt 81. The Federal Reserve Act gave the government the authority to
- c. govern federal banks without public control.
- mt 9. Which statement best summarizes the beliefs of Booker T. Washington?
- d. The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education.
- mt 43. Where did the Populist Movement of the late 1800s start?
- a. agricultural areas
- mt 87. China's Boxer Rebellion was an attempt to
- c. throw out or kill all foreigners.
- mt 53. Why did the United States follow a policy of unrestricted immigration for Europeans during most of the 1800's?
- b. The American economy needed many unskilled workers.
- mt 62. In the period from 1860 to 1900, the Federal Government encouraged the settlement of the West by
- d. granting tracts of land to railroad companies to encourage construction
- mt 58. The American Federation of Labor became the first long-lasting, successful labor union in the United States mainly because it
- d. fought for the rights of skilled workers
- mt 26. Participants in which of the following movements were arrested in the aftermath of the Haymarket Square bombing?
- d. anarchists
- mt 10. "Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen." Which evidence best supports this statement
- a. passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century
- mt 72. Americans favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons except
- c. fear that Spanish misrule in Cuba menaced the shipping routes to the West Indies.
- mt 2. What was President Lincoln's attitude toward Reconstruction?
- b. He wanted to make it very easy for southern states to rejoin the Union.
- mt 28. Eugene V. Debs was the leader of the
- b. Socialist Party of America.
- mt 42. Which method of transportation did most prairie farmers of the late 1800s use to ship their produce to eastern markets?
- d. railroads
- mt 55. Which statement is closest to the philosophy of Social Darwinism?
- C: "According to human nature, the most talented people will always come out on top."
- mt 39. People who came to America during the late 1800s and early 1900s were called the "new immigration." Most people of the new immigration settled
- a. in industrial cities
- mt 50. Many reformers who opposed the laissez-faire attitude of the late 19th century argued that
- d. government should protect society through the regulation of business
- mt 97. As president, William Howard Taft
- c. was committed more to the status quo than to change.
- mt 25. Which man was a powerful Wall Street banker?
- d. J. Pierpont Morgan
- mt 16. Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
- a. pools.
- mt 6. Andrew Johnson was impeached as president on the charge that he
- a. had violated the Tenure of Office Act.
- mt 61. During the 19th century, what was the major reason that an increasing number of states established public schools and passed compulsory education laws?
- a. Reformers argued that an educated, literate population was necessary for a successful democracy.
- mt 20. The new immigration came to America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Most immigrants of the new immigration came from countries like
- c. Italy & Russia
- mt 24. After men like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller built up monopolistic businesses, they charged high prices. This led people to call them
- a. robber barons
- mt 98. Vigorous prosecution of antitrust cases without regard to good or bad monopolies was a characteristic of
- c. Taft's administration.
- mt 56. Which situation brought about the rapid growth of industry between 1865 and 1900?
- b. availability of investment capital
- mt 7. Moderate Republicans, who voted to acquit President Johnson of criminal misconduct, did so because
- b. removal of a president over a policy dispute would be a dangerous precedent.
- mt 96. When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it intended the legislation to
- a. lower tariff rates.
- mt 71. In 1895, after nearly 400 years of colonial rule, the people of Cuba revolted against their colonial ruler,
- d. Spain
- mt 48. Which factor most limited the growth of labor unions during the late 1800's?
- a. Most employers were very hostile toward workers' efforts to organize.
- mt 11. Which statement about the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois is most accurate?
- a. They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality.
- mt 30. Why did government, at first, hesitate to break up trusts and monopolies?
- c. Many government officials thought government should leave businesses alone. Many government officials were influenced by big businesses.
- mt 46. Which political party changed some of its policies and gained the support of the Populist Party in the presidential campaign of 1896?
- a. Democratic Party
- mt 86. The country that posed the greatest threat to American power in the Pacific was
- c. Japan.
- mt 13. The label "Solid South" was applied to the former Confederate States after Reconstruction because they
- a. consistently supported the Democratic Party
- mt 69. During the late 1800s and early 1900s some Americans supported a policy of imperialism. Which of the following statements supports imperialism?
- c. "America should acquire new sources of natural resources."
- mt 49. During the latter half of the 19th century, many business organizations in the United States combined into large corporations because
- c. efficiency in production methods could be increased
- mt 18. Reformers of the late 1800s supported the Pendleton Civil Service Act (the merit system) because
- b. they wanted to stop the corruption of the spoils system
- mt 91. The alternative route to Panama seriously considered as the location for a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was
- b. Nicaragua
- mt 93. The Roosevelt Corollary added a new provision to the Monroe Doctrine that was specifically designed to
- e. justify U.S. intervention in the affairs of Latin American countries.
- mt 83. Progressivism
- a. supported many reforms advocated by feminists.
- mt 79. Which statement supports the views of the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 and 1899?
- c. "The U.S. should return Hawaii and the Philippines to their native peoples."
- mt 82. Free coinage of silver was intended to
- b. increase the money supply.
- mt 35. What great movement of people began between 1880 and 1890?
- c. The new immigration increased sharply.
- mt 65. Which of the following list is in the proper chronological order?
- a. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland (How Great Art Christ)
- mt 51. In response to the demands of farmers and small business owners, Congress enacted laws in the late 19th century that
- b. regulated the activities of railroads and trusts
- mt 17. The railroads were constructed in nineteenth-century America
- c. as a private enterprise heavily subsidized by federal, state, and local governments.
- mt 57. Laws requiring individuals to pass civil service examinations to obtain government jobs were enacted to
- a. eliminate patronage and corruption in government hiring
- mt 45. Whom did Populists support in the presidential election of 1892?
- d. James B. Weaver
- mt 70. How did the U.S. acquire the Hawaiian Islands?
- d. Americans on Hawaii gave the islands to the U.S.
- mt 19. With the passage of the Pendleton Act, politicians now sought money from
- e. big corporations.
- mt 52. Nativism in the late 19th century was motivated primarily by
- a. hostility toward immigrant workers
- mt 14. During the 1870s, buffalo were decimated primarily because
- d. farmers were tired of them trampling their crops.
- mt 34. For the middle class, the family was a
- d. refuge from the public world.
- mt 89. The Philippine insurrection was finally broken in 1901 when
- e. Emilio Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader, was captured.
- mt 64. Civil service reform became an important issue after President Garfield
- b. was assassinated.
- mt 88. In 1899, an insurrection began in the Philippines because
- b. the United States refused to give the Filipino people their freedom.
- mt 78. The American war that began in 1899 in the Philippines was marked by
- c. atrocities on both sides and thousands of deaths.
- mt 29. The Carnegie Steel Company came to an end in 1901. Why?
- b. J. P. Morgan bought it and changed is name.
- mt 80. President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
- d. dollar diplomacy.
- mt 47. The Pullman strike created the first instance of
- b. government use of federal troops to break a labor strike.
- mt 23. John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1882. He monopolized the oil industry for about 30 years. What brought his monopoly to an end in 1911?
- c. The Supreme Court broke up Rockefeller's company.
- mt 4. Which of President Johnson's actions most angered Radical Republicans?
- c. He allowed former Confederates to vote and hold office.
- mt 37. Which of the following was most unlike the other three? a. Hull House b. Tammany Hall c. Salvation Army d. Freedmen's Bureau
- b. Tammany Hall
- mt 84. As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
- a. control of labor.
- mt 40. America's first law to limit immigration was aimed at stopping immigration from
- b. China
- mt 74. During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt led a group of volunteers known as the
- c. Rough Riders
- mt 94. Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was facilitated by the publication of
- e. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
- mt 95. President Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, held a view of resource conservation that required policies for
- b. efficient management of resource use.
- mt 33. The concept of suffrage relates to
- c. the right to vote
- mt 27. Henry Clay Frick was responsible for
- a. crushing strikers at Homestead, Pennsylvania.
- mt 67. Progressive historians saw the Populist as:
- b. Agarian heros fighting urbanization and industrial giants
- mt 21. Generally, the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the Constitution in such a way as to favor
- b. corporations.
- mt 36. Which one of the following Gilded Age presidents had a different party affiliation from the other four?
- c. Grover Cleveland