Content Quiz #3

Question 1

Gilded Age

Answer 1

• term coined by mark twain; satirized the period’s economic paradox
• 1870s-1890s
• between reconstruction and progressive era
• marked by rapid economic growth, industrialisation, prosperity only for the rich, vast wealth disparities, poverty, corruption, and labour exploitation

Question 2

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 2

• 1890
• passed as a response to industrialisation
• aimed to curb unchecked economic power of large companies

Question 3

Wounded Knee Massacre, SD

Answer 3

• 1890; “final episode” of the indian wars
• deadliest mass shooting in american history
• over 300 lakota people (attempting to migrate to canada to escape cultural persecution) were shot and killed by american soldiers

Question 4

Yosemite National Park

Answer 4

• 1890
• first american national park
• result of progressivism and increasing support for environmental conservation

Question 5

Spanish American War

Answer 5

• 1898
• marked the beginnings of american imperialism
• added guam, puerto rico, and the philippines to the usa

Question 6

Annexation of Hawaii

Answer 6

• 1898

Question 7

WWI

Answer 7

• 1914-1918
• assassination of franz ferdinand to treaty of versailles

Question 8

Roaring Twenties

Answer 8

• 1920s
• rapid shifts in american culture (socially, economically)
• flappers and sheiks, consumerism, paying on credit, speakeasies

Question 9

19th Amendment

Answer 9

• 1920
• recognises women’s right to vote

Question 10

Schenck v. US

Answer 10

• if speech, during wartime, poses a “clear and present danger” to the public, then the govt can censor it

Question 11

Espionage & Sedition Acts

Answer 11

• espionage act: criminalised interfering or attempting to undermine the US war efforts
• sedition act: imposed harsh penalties for dissenting speech, including speech abusing the US govt, the flag, the Constitution, an the military
  
  • very clearly directed at socialists, pacifists, and anti-war activists
• infringed on americans’ first amendment right to free speech

Question 12

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 12

• 1887
• essentially a new version of the homestead act
• permitted the federal govt to divide the lands of any native tribe
• federal govt could grant 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land to each head of family

Question 13

Ida Tarbell

Answer 13

• muckraker; targeted monopolies & trusts with unchecked economic power
• history of standard oil

Question 14

Ida B. Wells

Answer 14

• mudraker; exposed the horrors and truths about the practice of lynching
• the red record

Question 15

Upton Sinclair

Answer 15

• mudraker; exposed truths about meatpacking industry and the safety of food/poor sanitary conditions of processing plants
• the jungle
• resulted in the passing of the pure food & drug act (required ingredients to be labelled on foods)

Question 16

Jacob Riis

Answer 16

• mudraker; photojournalist; revealed the realities of horrible conditions in tenement housing in urban areas
• how the other half lives
• resulted in the tenement house act 1901: set higher, better standards for conditions in tenement housing

Question 17

16th Amendment

Answer 17

• progressive federal income tax

Question 18

17th Amendment

Answer 18

• senators must be selected by direct election by voters

Question 19

18th Amendment

Answer 19

• prohibited manufacture, sale, transportation of alcohol

Question 20

Robber Barons

Answer 20

• aka “captains of industry”; the rich people during the 2nd industrial revolution
• Vanderbilt (railroads)
• Carnegie (steel)
• Duke (tobacco)
• Rockefeller (oil)

Question 21

Populist Party

Answer 21

• political party formed in 1890
• sought to represent the rights of workers (initially focused on farmers, later included all workers) in regional and federal elections
• William Jennings Bryan ran 3x for president; gave the “cross of gold” speech to advocate for bimetallism

Question 22

Tammany Hall

Answer 22

• famous political machine in new york
• machine boss: william tweed
• citizens’ immediate problems would be addressed in return for their political support in elections; often, workers’ jobs were dependent on the political machines and their bosses

Question 23

Wilmington Race Massacre

Answer 23

• 1898
• white supremacists launch the only successful coup in american history
• in response to growing fears of black political power

Question 24

Hull House

Answer 24

• Jane Addams’ settlement house, opened in 1889
• helped the working class by providing social servies, child daycare, evening classes, gym facilities, free healthcare

Question 25

Fort Riley, Kansas

Answer 25

• location of first documented case of spanish influenza in the usa

Question 26

Niagara Movement

Answer 26

• 1905
• campaign led by W. E. B. Du Bois; departed from Booker T. Washington’s idea of accommodation that placed the burden of civil rights on Black people
• advocated for a “Declaration of Principles”; called for immediate political, social, and economic equality for black americans

Question 27

Wisconsin Idea

Answer 27

• political system created and advocated by Robert La Follette (“Fighting Bob”)
• embodied many progressive ideals
• bob hired experts to advise him on improving conditions in wisconsin

Question 28

The Great Depression

Answer 28

• 1930s
• economy was largely repaired through the New Deal

Question 29

WWII

Answer 29

• 1939-1945
• German invasion of Poland to Victory Japan day

Question 30

Civil Rights Era

Answer 30

• 1960s

Question 31

New Deal Programmes

Answer 31

• Social Security Act
• WPA infrastructure programme (roads, bridges)
• REA (rural electrification act, federal loans to instal electrical distribution systems to rural areas)
• Tennessee Valley Authority (hydroelectric dams, regional govt)
• CCC (public park stuff)
• NRA (regulate industry, labour, prices during the GD)
• AAA (subsidies on lowered crop production, higher crop prices)

Question 32

Double V Campaign

Answer 32

• campaign by black Americans to win victory over the enemy overseas AND victory over racism at home

Question 33

Hoovervilles

Answer 33

• shanty towns consisting of people facing homelessness due to the GD
• Hoover, due to his resistance to govt aid to the ppl, became synonymous with the Depression’s woes