Question 1

Which of the following was not one of the reasons that many Americans in the 1880s and 1890s argued that the United States should take a more expansionist role in the world?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many believed that for the United States to be a great nation, it had to have an empire. 
B)  Many believed that American economic health depended on finding overseas markets for American products. 
C)  Many believed that Americans had a mission to bring Christianity and civilization to the world's weaker races. 
D)  Many believed that a great nation had to have a great navy, and a great navy needed bases abroad. 
E)  Demographic studies indicated that if immigration continued at the current rate, the U.S. would run out of unoccupied land by 1910.

Question 2

How did William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer change the newspaper industry?

Accepted Answer

A)  They set the precedent for accurately reporting stories in their respective newspapers 
B)  They competed for readers by writing sensationalized stories that captured the reader's attention. 
C)  They reformed the newspaper business by eliminating corruption. 
D)  They introduced new printing techniques that eliminated the yellow color of newspapers. 
E)  They no longer permitted their papers to represent one specific political party, and instead, focused on providing unbiased reporting.

Question 3

What was the position of the Anti-Imperialist League?

Accepted Answer

A)  That it was too costly for the U.S. to be involved in aiding smaller countries. 
B)  That it violated the principles of the Declaration of Independence for the U.S. to rule other peoples. 
C)  That expansionism was against God's mission for the United States. 
D)  None of these choices 
E)  All of these choices

Question 4

Discuss the factors that shaped American politics in the late nineteenth century. How did politics function? Who voted for whom? What determined those voting patterns? How did economic conditions lead to a basic political realignment?

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Question 5

Which two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The money supply and civil-service reform 
B)  civil-service reform and working conditions in factories 
C)  the money supply and urban slums 
D)  civil-service reform and imperialism 
E)  imperial expansion and immigration

Question 6

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 McKinley

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Question 7

In the 1892 election, what happened to the Populist party?

Accepted Answer

A)  It became the first "third party" in American history to win the presidency. 
B)  It received over one million votes across the nation. 
C)  It won by a large margin in New England and the traditionally Republican farm regions of the Midwest. 
D)  It swept every state of the former Confederacy. 
E)  It failed to elect its candidate for president, but received more votes than the Republican candidate.

Question 8

Who became famous for the "Cross of Gold" speech in the 1896 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  William Jennings Bryan 
B)  Theodore Roosevelt 
C)  William McKinley 
D)  Eugene V. Debs 
E)  theodore Roosevelt

Question 9

Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?

Accepted Answer

A)  Some Populists wanted to build an interracial movement and tried to defend the rights of blacks. 
B)  Most southern populists were anti-black. 
C)  The white elite tried to inflame agrarian racism and stimulate urban black sentiment against agrarian radicalism. 
D)  Some Populists denounced lynchings and the convict-lease system 
E)  The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters.

Question 10

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

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Question 11

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. 
Convict-lease system

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Question 12

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Instructions: Choose the letter on the accompanying map of the Pacific Basin that identifies each of the following: 
  
Hawaii

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Question 13

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. 
Anti-Imperialist League

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Question 14

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. 
Election of 1892

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Question 15

Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?

Accepted Answer

A)  A record-high tariff 
B)  The decision to cease government purchases of silver 
C)  Government attacks on entrenched economic interests 
D)  The decline of political activism in the agrarian South and West 
E)  The worst economic depression in the nineteenth century

Question 16

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. 
Plessy v. Ferguson

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Question 17

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. 
Clara Barton

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Question 18

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. 
McKinley Tariff

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Question 19

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. 
Wabash v. Illinois , Interstate Commerce Act

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Question 20

Why did Grangers focus their activism on the railroads?

Accepted Answer

A)  Railroads discriminated against small farmers by giving discounts to big shippers. 
B)  The railroads routinely bribed legislators to get what they wanted. 
C)  Railroads charged higher rates for short trips than they did for long ones. 
D)  All of these choices 
E)  None of these choices

Exam 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

Which of the following was not one of the reasons that many Americans in the 1880s and 1890s argued that the United States should take a more expansionist role in the world?

How did William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer change the newspaper industry?

What was the position of the Anti-Imperialist League?

Discuss the factors that shaped American politics in the late nineteenth century. How did politics function? Who voted for whom? What determined those voting patterns? How did economic conditions lead to a basic political realignment?

Which two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?

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 McKinley

In the 1892 election, what happened to the Populist party?

Who became famous for the "Cross of Gold" speech in the 1896 presidential election?

Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?

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

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. Convict-lease system

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

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. Anti-Imperialist League

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. Election of 1892

Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?

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. Plessy v. Ferguson

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. Clara Barton

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. McKinley Tariff

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. Wabash v. Illinois , Interstate Commerce Act

Why did Grangers focus their activism on the railroads?