Ch 21

Question 1

80%

Answer 1

Percent of eligible voters that turned out for Presidential elections between 1860 and 1900.

Question 2

voted

Answer 2

Between 1860 and 1900 one in every five men actually did this.

Question 3

Democratic

Answer 3

Chant from this political party: “You are redeemed from Republican Reconstruction!”

Question 4

Republican

Answer 4

Chant from this political party: “Not every Democrat was a rebel, but every rebel was a Democrat!”

Question 5

Union Army Veterans

Answer 5

This would be the foundation of government assistance to people in America.

Question 6

Pendleton Act

Answer 6

Enacted in 1883 this Act created a bipartisan civil service commission to examine nominees for some federal jobs.

Question 7

Plurality

Answer 7

Candidate who wins more votes than ay other candidate but less than half of all votes casted.

Question 8

Populism

Answer 8

Political outlook that supports the rights and powers of the common people in opposition to the interests of the privileged elite.

Question 9

Cleveland

Answer 9

Who said, “While the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.”

Question 10

Disenfranchisement

Answer 10

Poll tax and Literacy Test for voting showed this to many African Americans.

Question 11

Booker T. Washington

Answer 11

Founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881.

Question 12

Imperialism

Answer 12

Acquisition of control over the government and the economy of another nation, usually by conquest.

Question 13

navalism

Answer 13

Theories of warfare and trade that rely on a nation’s navy as a principal instrument of policy.

Question 14

Charles Darwin

Answer 14

Author of On the Origin of Species in 1859.

Question 15

Yellow Journalism

Answer 15

Brand of newspaper reporting that stresses excitement and shock over evenhandedness and dull fact.

Question 16

Maine

Answer 16

This battleship was reportedly sunk by the Spanish and started the Spanish-American war.

Question 17

Paris

Answer 17

This treaty ended the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Question 18

Sphere of Influence

Answer 18

Geographic region beyond its border over which a nation exerts political or economic control.