Question 1

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

Accepted Answer

A)  was a stage actor of some renown. 
B)  ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform. 
C)  argued in favor of the gold standard. 
D)  lost to Bryan in 1896. 
E)  was especially popular in the South. 
A)  was a stage actor of some renown. 
B)  ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform. 
C)  argued in favor of the gold standard. 
D)  lost to Bryan in 1896. 
E)  was especially popular in the South.

Question 2

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Populist Party

Accepted Answer

A) argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories 
B) excluded Chinese women from entering the United States 
C) separate, but equal 
D) warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy 
E) the United States was not to annex Cuba
F)politically active farmers
G)gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment
H)labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill
I)effort to keep free trade in China
J)campaigned for temperance
K)excluded from voting
L)blacks migrated out of South 
A) argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories 
B) excluded Chinese women from entering the United States 
C) separate, but equal 
D) warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy 
E) the United States was not to annex Cuba
F)politically active farmers
G)gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment
H)labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill
I)effort to keep free trade in China
J)campaigned for temperance
K)excluded from voting
L)blacks migrated out of South

Question 3

Brooks Adams's book The New Empire (1902)predicted that because of its economic power,the United States would soon "outweigh any single empire,if not all empires combined."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In the 1890s,the National American Woman Suffrage Association:

Accepted Answer

A)  supported the right of immigrant women to vote. 
B)  supported the right of African-American women to vote. 
C)  was dominated by working-class women. 
D)  argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant foreign vote." 
E)  argued that all women, regardless of race or ethnicity, should vote. 
A)  supported the right of immigrant women to vote. 
B)  supported the right of African-American women to vote. 
C)  was dominated by working-class women. 
D)  argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant foreign vote." 
E)  argued that all women, regardless of race or ethnicity, should vote.

Question 5

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Plessy v.Ferguson

Accepted Answer

A) argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories 
B) excluded Chinese women from entering the United States 
C) separate, but equal 
D) warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy 
E) the United States was not to annex Cuba
F)politically active farmers
G)gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment
H)labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill
I)effort to keep free trade in China
J)campaigned for temperance
K)excluded from voting
L)blacks migrated out of South 
A) argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories 
B) excluded Chinese women from entering the United States 
C) separate, but equal 
D) warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy 
E) the United States was not to annex Cuba
F)politically active farmers
G)gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment
H)labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill
I)effort to keep free trade in China
J)campaigned for temperance
K)excluded from voting
L)blacks migrated out of South

Question 6

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Page Act

Accepted Answer

A) argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories 
B) excluded Chinese women from entering the United States 
C) separate, but equal 
D) warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy 
E) the United States was not to annex Cuba
F)politically active farmers
G)gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment
H)labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill
I)effort to keep free trade in China
J)campaigned for temperance
K)excluded from voting
L)blacks migrated out of South 
A) argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories 
B) excluded Chinese women from entering the United States 
C) separate, but equal 
D) warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy 
E) the United States was not to annex Cuba
F)politically active farmers
G)gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth Amendment
H)labor unrest at a Carnegie steel mill
I)effort to keep free trade in China
J)campaigned for temperance
K)excluded from voting
L)blacks migrated out of South

Question 7

Filipino resistance leader Emilio Aguinaldo established a nationalist provisional government tied to principles rooted in communism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-American War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Americans had long wished for a colonial empire that included the Philippines. 
B)  Americans had harbored deep resentments against Cuba ever since the Mexican-American War. 
C)  A military victory against the most powerful military in the world at the time-Spain-was a source of much national pride. 
D)  Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between North and South. 
E)  Americans were eager to punish Spain for its loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War. 
A)  Americans had long wished for a colonial empire that included the Philippines. 
B)  Americans had harbored deep resentments against Cuba ever since the Mexican-American War. 
C)  A military victory against the most powerful military in the world at the time-Spain-was a source of much national pride. 
D)  Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between North and South. 
E)  Americans were eager to punish Spain for its loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Question 9

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Nativism

Accepted Answer

Nativism is a political and social ideol

Question 10

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  White leaders presented disenfranchisement as a "good government" measure. 
B)  Between 1890 and 1906, every southern state enacted laws or constitutional provisions meant to eliminate the black vote. 
C)  In passing various laws to restrict blacks from voting, numerous poor and illiterate whites also lost the right to vote in the South. 
D)  The elimination of black and many white voters could not have been accomplished without the approval of the North. 
E)  The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause. 
A)  White leaders presented disenfranchisement as a "good government" measure. 
B)  Between 1890 and 1906, every southern state enacted laws or constitutional provisions meant to eliminate the black vote. 
C)  In passing various laws to restrict blacks from voting, numerous poor and illiterate whites also lost the right to vote in the South. 
D)  The elimination of black and many white voters could not have been accomplished without the approval of the North. 
E)  The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.

Question 11

The American Federation of Labor was very much like the Knights of Labor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  hope for blacks to escape racial violence in the South. 
B)  the migration of 40,000 to 60,000 African-Americans to Kansas. 
C)  the eventual return of most black migrants to the South. 
D)  the possibility of political equality, access to education, and economic opportunity was worth a long journey west for many African-Americans. 
E)  many African-Americans stayed in Kansas because they did not have the means to travel farther. 
A)  hope for blacks to escape racial violence in the South. 
B)  the migration of 40,000 to 60,000 African-Americans to Kansas. 
C)  the eventual return of most black migrants to the South. 
D)  the possibility of political equality, access to education, and economic opportunity was worth a long journey west for many African-Americans. 
E)  many African-Americans stayed in Kansas because they did not have the means to travel farther.

Question 13

"New immigrants":

Accepted Answer

A)  defined mostly those from China and Japan. 
B)  arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires. 
C)  in contrast to "old immigrants," did not arouse the ire of nativists, who saw these newcomers as more willing to work. 
D)  in Boston helped form an "Immigration Restriction League" as a response to Mexican immigrants. 
E)  were welcomed by older immigrants. 
A)  defined mostly those from China and Japan. 
B)  arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires. 
C)  in contrast to "old immigrants," did not arouse the ire of nativists, who saw these newcomers as more willing to work. 
D)  in Boston helped form an "Immigration Restriction League" as a response to Mexican immigrants. 
E)  were welcomed by older immigrants.

Question 14

How did the Populists seek to rethink the relationship between freedom and government to address the crisis of the 1890s? Why was their platform considered radical? How did their platform seek to guarantee freedom?

Accepted Answer

The Populists sought to rethink the rela

Question 15

Education flourished in the South,with approximately one black high school for each county by 1900.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Spanish-American War

Accepted Answer

The Spanish-American War was a conflict

Question 17

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties. 
B)  Congress indicated that it was going to war to annex Cuba. 
C)  The war came as little surprise given the fact that William McKinley campaigned in 1896 on a platform favoring imperial expansion. 
D)  Admiral Dewey secured Manila Bay by defeating the Spanish in a bloody three-day battle. 
E)  The treaty that ended the war granted U.S. citizenship to the peoples of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam. 
A)  The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties. 
B)  Congress indicated that it was going to war to annex Cuba. 
C)  The war came as little surprise given the fact that William McKinley campaigned in 1896 on a platform favoring imperial expansion. 
D)  Admiral Dewey secured Manila Bay by defeating the Spanish in a bloody three-day battle. 
E)  The treaty that ended the war granted U.S. citizenship to the peoples of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

Question 18

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-John Marshall Harlan

Accepted Answer

A) advocate of free silver 
B) president of the American Railway Union 
C) believed politics was the place for women 
D) Populist Party presidential candidate 
E) advocated vocational training for blacks
F)Supreme Court justice
G)pioneered "business unionism"
H)fought with the Rough Riders
I)led the Filipino insurrection
J)promoted American expansionism via a navy
K)fomented a revolution in Cuba
L)annexed the Philippines 
A) advocate of free silver 
B) president of the American Railway Union 
C) believed politics was the place for women 
D) Populist Party presidential candidate 
E) advocated vocational training for blacks
F)Supreme Court justice
G)pioneered "business unionism"
H)fought with the Rough Riders
I)led the Filipino insurrection
J)promoted American expansionism via a navy
K)fomented a revolution in Cuba
L)annexed the Philippines

Question 19

American interest in its new possessions had to do with wanting wealth from natural resources and large-scale American settlement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal,which sensationalized events to sell papers,were called:

Accepted Answer

A)  yellow journalists. 
B)  trustees. 
C)  social reformers. 
D)  muckrakers. 
E)  freelancers. 
A)  yellow journalists. 
B)  trustees. 
C)  social reformers. 
D)  muckrakers. 
E)  freelancers.

Exam 17: Freedom’s Boundaries,at Home and Abroad,1890-1900

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Populist Party

Brooks Adams's book The New Empire (1902)predicted that because of its economic power,the United States would soon "outweigh any single empire,if not all empires combined."

In the 1890s,the National American Woman Suffrage Association:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Plessy v.Ferguson

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Page Act

Filipino resistance leader Emilio Aguinaldo established a nationalist provisional government tied to principles rooted in communism.

Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-American War?

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Nativism

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

The American Federation of Labor was very much like the Knights of Labor.

The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

"New immigrants":

How did the Populists seek to rethink the relationship between freedom and government to address the crisis of the 1890s? Why was their platform considered radical? How did their platform seek to guarantee freedom?

Education flourished in the South,with approximately one black high school for each county by 1900.

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Spanish-American War

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Marshall Harlan

American interest in its new possessions had to do with wanting wealth from natural resources and large-scale American settlement.

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal,which sensationalized events to sell papers,were called:

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A House Divided,1840-1861

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