Chapter 16-19

Question 1

Played a key role in developing the modern navy. Wrote a book called “The Influence of Sea Power upon History”

Answer 1

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Question 2

Constructed the nation’s largest steel plant, employing fifteen hundred workers.

Answer 2

Andrew Carnegie

Question 3

Made Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute into a leading black educational institution.

Answer 3

Booker T. Washington

Question 4

Miners strike for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union.

Answer 4

1902 Anthracite Coal Mine Strike

Question 5

What was the best mass production of steel?

Answer 5

Bessemer Process

Question 6

Government agency that regulates the employment and working conditions of working servants.

Answer 6

Civil Service Commission

Question 7

Revealed de Lome’s opinion about Spanish involvement in Cuba and criticized President McKinley.

Answer 7

De Lome Letter

Question 8

An organized economic movement among American farmers to improve their economic condition.

Answer 8

Farmers’ Alliance

Question 9

A spiritual movement that became the belief that it would drive away white people and restore their land.

Answer 9

Ghost Dance

Question 10

Allowed white men to vote regardless of their illiteracy.

Answer 10

The Grandfather Clause

Question 11

Laws that regulated grain elevator and railroad rates and addressed other railroad abuses against farmers.

Answer 11

Granger Laws

Question 12

applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a “homestead.

Answer 12

Homestead Act

Question 13

Designed to regulate the railroad industry,

Answer 13

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 14

Known as the mother of social work.

Answer 14

Jane Addams

Question 15

Was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

Answer 15

Margaret Sanger

Question 16

It was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote.

Answer 16

Mississippi Plan

Question 17

A policy favoring natives over immigrants

Answer 17

Nativists

Question 18

A term from the late 1880s that came from the influx of Jewish and Catholic immigrants

Answer 18

New Immigrants

Question 19

Acts Congress promoted for the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

Answer 19

Pacific Railway Act

Question 20

a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.

Answer 20

Pendleton Act

Question 21

The case that supported separate but equal

Answer 21

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 22

a large population

Answer 22

Populists

Question 23

the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

Answer 23

Progressivism

Question 24

a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies

Answer 24

Sitting Bull

Question 25

A tax on imported and exported goods.

Answer 25

Tariff

Question 26

Served as the 26th President of the United States

Answer 26

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 27

The founder of the NAACP

Answer 27

W.E.B. Du Bois