Exam 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

Describe how machine politics functioned in urban America in the late nineteenth century. What services did political bosses provide? Why did reformers object to machine politics?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Buffalo soldiers

What event triggered the Panic of 1893?

Which of the following was not a tool that southern states used to disfranchise blacks after Reconstruction?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Lynching

What was Populist orator and editor Annie L. Diggs' position on women and politics in 1892?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Pacific Basin that identifies each of the following: Puerto Rico

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Greenback party

How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold"

What happened in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War?

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Pacific Basin that identifies each of the following: Alaska

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Emilio Aguinaldo

MAP QUESTIONS Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Pacific Basin that identifies each of the following: Chile

Who was not an American expansionist in the late nineteenth century?

What difficulties did the American farmer confront in the late nineteenth century? How did farmers react to those difficulties? What organizations did they form and what were their goals and demands? How did the government respond?

What did Booker T. Washington argue?

Which of the following functions was not typically performed by political bosses and precinct captains?

Why did the federal government during the late nineteenth century tend to ignore the social consequences of industrialization?

Discuss what happened to blacks in the post-Reconstruction South. What impact did these developments have on national politics? How did the federal government react to these developments?