CHAPTER 17
Freedom’s Boundaries, At Home and Abroad, 1890-1900
· 1. The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights
o a. eastern Europe.
o b. the Caribbean.
o c. China.
o d. Scandinavia.
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· 2. A leading opponent of American imperialism was
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, Republic or Empire
o a. Rudyard Kipling.
o b. Albert Beveridge.
o c. Theodore Roosevelt.
o d. William Jennings Bryan.
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· 3. Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
o Topic: Entire Chapter
o a. founding of People's (Populist) Party; William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech; birth of Farmers Alliance; Coxey's Army
o b. Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson
o c. sinking of battleship Maine; publication of Josiah Strong's Our Country; Platt Amendment; overthrow of Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani
o d. Battle of Manila Bay; founding of Immigration Restriction League; Homestead steel strike; founding of National American Woman Suffrage Association
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· 4. Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists?
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Farmer's Revolt
o a. excessive interest rates
o b. excessive power of the labor unions
o c. excessive power of the banks and railroads
o d. inadequate government response to the plight of ordinary farmers
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· 5. Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists?
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The People's Party
o a. using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause
o b. creating cooperative enterprises through which to distribute their crops on more reasonable terms
o c. holding public events to give their followers a sense of power and community
o d. declaring political independence from the two major political parties
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· 6. Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South?
o Topic: The Separated South
o a. growing tolerance, and even encouragement, by the federal government for white supremacy
o b. a desire to discourage further biracial insurgencies
o c. a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone
o d. an overall narrowing of the American conception of nationhood
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· 7. Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor?
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Rise of the AFL
o a. Labor should avoid entanglement in politics.
o b. Bargaining with employers over day-to-day issues is the most promising avenue for labor.
o c. Organized labor should pursue concrete gains rather than dreamy reforms.
o d. It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.
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· 8. Which of the following was not a major reason for America's imperial expansion?
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, American Expansionism
o a. a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures
o b. a sense of strategic rivalry with other imperial powers
o c. a conviction that it was America's mission to uplift "less civilized" peoples
o d. a quest on the part of business for new markets for goods
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· 9. The largest citizens' movement of the nineteenth century was
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Farmer's Revolt
o a. the abolitionist movement.
o b. the Farmers Alliance.
o c. the prohibitionist movement.
o d. the American Federation of Labor.
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· 10. The "subtreasury plan" was
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Farmer's Revolt
o a. a policy of opening banks in each state.
o b. a plan developed by the undersecretary of commerce that would ensure equitable international exchange.
o c. another name for the black market.
o d. a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.
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· 11. The 1892 People's Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party's Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Populist Platform
o a. direct election of United States senators.
o b. a graduated income tax.
o c. recognition of the rights of workers to form labor unions.
o d. a decentralization over the control of currency.
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· 12. The 1892 presidential election was won by
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, Graphic: The Presidential Election of 1892
o a. Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.
o b. William Henry Harrison, the Republican.
o c. James Weaver, the Populist.
o d. William Jennings Bryan, an Independent.
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· 13. The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Government and Labor
o a. George Pullman.
o b. Richard Olney.
o c. Jacob Coxey.
o d. Eugene V. Debs.
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· 14. What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894?
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, Debs and the Pullman Strike
o a. Pullman
o b. American Railway Company
o c. The Chicago and Sacramento
o d. the Maine and California
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· 15. The nation's urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, Populism and Labor
o a. republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.
o b. they did not shift their support to the Republican Party, since the Republican Party is the party of big business, and big business is opposed to the interests of the working class.
o c. in solidarity with farmers across the nation, working people believed it was time for a change.
o d. a sharp upturn in the economy and the return to "good times" meant increasingly that the American people shared a common cause and interests.
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· 16. The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the "free coinage" of silver was
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, Bryan and Free Silver
o a. James G. Blaine.
o b. William Jennings Bryan.
o c. William McKinley.
o d. Grover Cleveland.
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· 17. The 1897 Dingley Tariff
o Topic: The Populist Challenge, The Campaign of 1896
o a. lowered tariff rates.
o b. fulfilled one of the Populist Party's political party platform promises.
o c. raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.
o d. lowered tariff rates east of the Mississippi, while raising them in the Far West.
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· 18. The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves
o Topic: The Segregated South, The Redeemers in Power
o a. Carpetbaggers.
o b. Redeemers.
o c. Reconstructionists.
o d. the Ku Klux Klan.
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· 19. The Redeemers in the South
o Topic: The Segregated South, The Redeemers in Power
o a. increased state budgets and improved schooling across the region.
o b. increased spending on public schools without measurably increasing taxes.
o c. slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.
o d. vigorously enforced the fifteenth amendment.
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· 20. During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole
o Topic: The Segregated South, The Failure of the New South Dream
o a. sank deeper and deeper into poverty.
o b. flourished, as industrial expansion and agricultural diversification made the "New South" the richest region in the country.
o c. became increasingly culturally diverse as new immigrants and freedmen worked together in the region's mines, mills, and factories.
o d. built thousands of new public schools, hundreds of hospitals, and scores of new factories.
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· 21. Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000–60,000 African Americans migrated to
o Topic: The Separated South, The Kansas Exodus
o a. South Carolina.
o b. California.
o c. Massachusetts.
o d. Kansas.
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· 22. The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was
o Topic: The Separated South, The Decline of Black Politics
o a. the Readjuster movement.
o b. the Farmers' Alliance.
o c. the Populist-Republican coalition.
o d. the Arkansans.
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· 23. Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?
o Topic: The Separated South, The Elimination of Black Voting
o a. the poll tax
o b. literacy tests
o c. the grandfather clause
o d. a religious test
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· 24. What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?
o Topic: The Segregated South, The Law of Segregation
o a. the Slaughterhouse Cases
o b. the Civil Rights Cases
o c. Plessy vs. Ferguson
o d. Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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· 25. In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed?
o Topic: The Segregated South, Segregation and White Domination
o a. only a few but their numbers were growing
o b. As a result of Reconstruction politics, there were hundreds of high schools across the South for black Americans.
o c. more than 500
o d. none
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· 26. From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly
o Topic: The Segregated South, The Rise of Lynching
o a. 200.
o b. 250.
o c. 1,000.
o d. 5,000.
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· 27. What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Rights
o a. The United States v. Wong Kim Ark
o b. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
o c. Fong Yue Ting
o d. Saum Song Bo
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· 28. Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Emergence of Booker T. Washington
o a. W.E.B. DuBois
o b. Frederick Douglass
o c. Samuel Armstrong
o d. Booker T. Washington
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· 29. What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers?
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Rise of the AFL
o a. the American Federation of Labor
o b. the Knights of Labor
o c. the Congress of Industrial Organizations
o d. the Federated Amalgamated Union
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· 30. Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century?
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Women's Era
o a. temperance associations
o b. social reform organizations
o c. political party organizations
o d. women's clubs
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· 31. The Women's Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization
o Topic: Redrawing the Boundaries, The Women's Era
o a. calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.
o b. opposed to women's suffrage.
o c. that held meetings specifically to help men and women control their tempers.
o d. that promoted workers' unions in the temperance industry.
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· 32. What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases?
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Lure of Empire
o a. J. M. Price, Seapower Comes of Age
o b. Theodore Roosevelt, The History of the United States Navy
o c. Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
o d. Josiah Strong, Our Country
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· 33. "The splendid little war" of 1898 was
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Splendid Little War
o a. the Spanish-American War.
o b. the Mexican-American War.
o c. the Great War.
o d. the Philippine War.
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· 34. In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives?
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Splendid Little War
o a. the battleship Arizona
o b. the battleship McKinley
o c. the battleship Maine
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· 35. Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, Roosevelt at San Juan Hill
o a. William McKinley
o b. William Howard Taft
o c. Woodrow Wilson
o d. Theodore Roosevelt
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· 36. What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, An American Empire
o a. the Open Door policy
o b. the Chinese Exclusion Act
o c. the Monroe Doctrine
o d. the Hay Corollary
o Feedback/Reference: REF: 710-711
· 37. What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?
o Topic: Becoming a World Power, The Philippine War
o a. There was no such war.
o b. the Spanish-American War
o c. the Cuban-Filipino Conflict
o d. the Philippine War
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