Question 1

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?

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Question 2

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

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Question 3

What event triggered the Panic of 1893?

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A)  The collapse of a railroad 
B)  The stock market crash 
C)  The abandonment of the gold standard 
D)  The adoption of free silver 
E)  A spiraling trade deficit

Question 4

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

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A)  Outright legal prohibitions 
B)  Literacy tests 
C)  Poll taxes 
D)  Grandfather clauses 
E)  Property requirements

Question 5

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

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Question 6

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

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A)  She thought politics was too unsavory for women. 
B)  She argued for passage of women's suffrage. 
C)  She said that women had been essential to the success of the Farmers' Alliances. 
D)  She considered female leaders such as Mary Lease to be maligning the female sex. 
E)  She thought women weren't strong enough to handle public criticism of their activities.

Question 7

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

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Question 8

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

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Question 9

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

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A)  Public opinion sanctioned widespread de facto discrimination. 
B)  The influence of northern labor unions kept northern society racially integrated and equal. 
C)  Most Democratic politicians in northern cities used their political machines to make white supremacy the official policy. 
D)  The abolitionist legacy was still strong in the North and so most northerners continued to strive for an egalitarian society. 
E)  As a result of race riots and hard economic times, blacks were pressured to move to southern cities.

Question 10

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"

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Question 11

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

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A)  Filipino resistance fighters fought a protracted and bloody guerrilla war against United States rule. 
B)  American agricultural producers, hoping to establish a tariff against Filipino products, engineered quick independence for the former Spanish colony. 
C)  Filipino patriots petitioned the United States Congress for annexation and statehood. 
D)  The United States imposed military rule and announced that self-government could not be granted until the Philippines had achieved economic self-sufficiency. 
E)  Civil war erupted between nationalist paramilitary groups and Spanish landowners.

Question 12

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

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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. 
Emilio Aguinaldo

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Question 14

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

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Question 15

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

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A)  Andrew Carnegie 
B)  John Hay 
C)  Alfred T. Mahan 
D)  Josiah Strong 
E)  Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 16

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?

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Question 17

What did Booker T. Washington argue?

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A)  that black Americans should leave the United States and return to Africa. 
B)  that black Americans should align themselves with the Democratic Party. 
C)  that black Americans should acquire useful skills and patiently accept their lot until racism faded. 
D)  that black Americans should launch a rebellion against white oppression. 
E)  None of these choices

Question 18

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

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A)  They delivered votes at election time. 
B)  They ran settlement houses. 
C)  They served as informal welfare agents for the needy. 
D)  They protected the troubled in the neighborhood. 
E)  They dispensed patronage jobs, contracts, and other political favors.

Question 19

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

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A)  Local party bosses refused federal government assistance. 
B)  Congressmen believed only the president had the constitutional authority to regulate societal issues. 
C)  Americans believed that volunteer Christian organizations should take care of societal problems. 
D)  Most American leaders, regardless of party, believed in the laissez-faire doctrine and did not support a large governmental role in the economy. 
E)  Most leaders believed in communism's focus on individual decision making and not government directed policy.

Question 20

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?

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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?