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APUSH Unit 6
APUSH Unit 6 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following was the most broadly based labor organization in the late nineteenth century? | Knights of Labor |
| All of the following accoung for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that immigrants | dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering |
| Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the nineteenth century? | cities built sewers and supplied purified water |
| Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor was significant because it aroused public awareness of the | wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on American Indians |
| The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was | not immediately successful limiting business concentration |
| Which of the planks from the 1892 Populist Party platform showed a concern with issues raised by organized labor? | Restrictions on immigration |
| By the end of his presidency, Ulysses Grant's popularity had declined substantially because of | the corruption evident in his administration |
| "Forty acres and a mule" refers to | the proposal to make freed slaves small-scale farmers |
| The passage explains which problem that farmers faced in the late nineteenth century? | long vs. short hauls |
| The first federal law to restrict immigration, passed in 1882, was aimed at | excluding Chinese immigrants |
| The political cartoonist who eneded Boss Tweed's career is credited with popularizing the donkey and the elephant as symbols for the Democratic and Republican parties. He was | Thomas Nast |
| The injunction as a court order was often used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to | prevent labor unions from striking |
| For the period from the end of Reconstruction to 1900, the position of the Supreme Court toward civil rights is best characterized as | establishing the constitutionality of segregation |
| Thomas Nast achieved fame and influence as a | political cartoonist |
| Immigrants coming to America from Eastern and Southern Europe during the late 19th century were most likely to | settle in large cities in the Northeast or Midwest |
| The Haymarket Incident involved | a riot between striking workers and police |
| The "New Immigration" was made up primarily of | persons rom Southern and Eastern Europe |
| Which of the following is true of W.E.B. DuBois? | he worked closely with Booker T. Washington |
| Which of the following was among the objectives of Booker T. Washington? | to encourage blacks to work hard, acquire property, and prove they were worthy of their rights |
| All of the following groups were cowboys except | Chinese |
| The Indians battled whties for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT to | rescue their women who had been exiled to Florida |
| The buffalo were nearly exterminated | through wholesale butchery by whites |
| Thomas Edison was instrumental in the invention of | electric light |
| Some people who found fault with the captains of industry argued that these men | diminished the workers' quality of life |
| In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters | of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War |
| The Crédit Moblilier scandal involved | railraod construction kickbacks |
| One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was | the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear |
| The sequence of presidential terms fo the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age was | Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland |
| In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that | "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional |
| The Compromise of 1877 resulted in | the withdrawal of federal troops from the South |
| The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to | take a competitive examination |
| The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by | building an expensive new steel navy & expanding pensions for Civil War veterans |
| Which of the following was NOT among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892? | governement gurantees of "parity prices" for farmers |
| President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of | borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate |
| The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 were | the Republicans |
| In the Gilded Age, "hard money" policies were reflected in | the Resumption Act of 1875, contraction, the position of the Greenback Labor party |
| The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interst from business combinations was the | Interstate Commerce Commission |
| Andrew Carnegie was associated with | vertical integration |
| John D. Rockefeller was associated with | trusts |
| J.P. Morgan was associated with | interlocking directorate |
| The method used by J.P. Morgan was call | interlocking directorate |
| The "gospel of wealth" which associated godliness with riches | based its theology on the sayings of Jesus |
| National Labor Union was | a social-reform union killed by the depression of 1873 |
| Knights of Labor was | the one "big union" that championed producer cooperation arbitration |
| American Federation of Labor was | an association of unions pursuing higher wages, shorter, & better working conditions |
| Which one of the following has the LEAST in common with the other four? | bedroom communities |
| Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all the following activities EXCEPT | social reform lobbying |
| Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was | economic independence |
| That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in | landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values |
| Lewis Wallace was associated with | anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures |
| Horatio Alger was associated with | success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work |
| Henry James was associated with | psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women |
| William Dean Howells was associated with | contemporary social problems like divorce, and labor strikes |
| Chief Joseph was the chief of the | Nez Pearce |
| Sitting Bull was the chief of the | Sioux |
| Geronimo was the chief of the | Apache |
| A Century of Dishonor (1881), which chronicled the dismal history of Indian-white relations, was authored by | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following EXCEPT | outlaw the sacred Sun Dance |
| The United States government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the | Battle of Wounded Knee |
| The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian | assimilation |
| The first major farmers' organization was the | Farmers' Alliance |
| The Farmers' Alliance was formed to | take action to break the strangling grip of the railroads |
| Jacob Coxey and his "army" marched on Washington D.C. to | demand that the government relieve unemployment with a public works program |
| President Grover Cleveland justified federal intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 on the grounds that | the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail |
| Richard Olney was thw | United States attorney general who brought in federal troops to crush the strike |
| Eugene V. Debs was the | head of the American Railway Union that organized the strike |
| George Pullman was the | owner of the "palace railroad car" company and the company town |
| John P. Altgeld was teh | governor of Illinois who sympathized with the striking workers |
| The Depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike made the election of 1896 shape up as | a battle between down-and-out workers and farmers and establishment conservatives |
| Who wrote the book Looking Backward which looked forward to a future of socialism in America? | Edward Bellamy |
| According to Henry George, | there was a wide gulf between rich and poor |
| The leading American advocate of Social Darwinism was | William Graham Sumner |
| The Social Darwinists | believed the laws of nature applied to every society |
| Booker T. Washington | believed African Americans should fight for equal rights |
| What gave large grants of land to states to establish agricultural colleges? | Morrill Land Grant Act |
| The most famous of the urban political bosses in the late nineteenth century was | William Tweed |
| As the new immigrants entered American society | they quickly assimilated into the society |
| By the end of the nineteenth century, most immigrants arrived from | Southern and Eastern Europe |
| Building the new skyscrapers depended on the invention of | electical elevators |
| The Haymarket Square riot | strengthened the national labor movement |
| The Homestead Strike | forced management to meet the workers' demands |
| In the 1905 decision of Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court | struck down a state law limiting the number of hours workers worked each week |
| As the leader of the American Federation of Labor, he tried to achieve pragmatic goals for his workers. | Samuel Gompers |
| The leader of the Knights of Labor was | Terrence Powderly |
| Who invited women and minorities to join? | Knights of Labor |
| Each of the following companies was a large scale retailer in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT | Wal-Mart |
| The first modern trust was | Standard Oil |
| In which type of organization does a company own all elements from raw material to finished product? | vertical integration |
| The two transcontinental railroad lines met at | Promontory, Utah |
| The aging American poet who most feared the impact of new industrial technologies on American life was | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Frederick Jackson Turner was | the historian who first developed the frontier thesis |
| What was established to help provide isolated farmers with social and cultural activities? | National Grange |
| The inventor of barbed wire was | Joseph Glidden |
| The Homestead Act of 1862 failed because | the land allotments were insufficient for farming arid land |
| Buffalo soldiers were | African American calvarymen |
| Which of the following was, perhaps, the greatest Native American victory over the Unites States army? | Custer's Last Stand |
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