Major Exam 1 Questions (final) Flashcards
Effects of the Dawes Act included:
more Indian land being owned by whites.
Mining eventually became a corporate operation because:
massive capital investment in equipment was conducive to financial success.
Booker T. Washington emphasized:
vocational training as a way of establishing economic independence.
Jim Crow laws:
established segregation as an institution in southern states.
Scientific racismespoused all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:
“new immigrants” were inferior, thus they must be helped by native Americans.
The term “Great Migration” refers to the:
mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North.
Rationales for imperialism in the era 1890-1910 included all of the following ideas EXCEPT:
the United States needed a vast buffer zone to offset communist expansionism.
The crucial role in capturing San Juan Hill was played by:
the 10th Negro Cavalry.
The most accurate description of thespoils systemis:
awarding patronage jobs based on party activism and loyalty.
Throughout the 1890s, Supreme Court decisions tended to:
support the powers of big business.
The Pendleton Civil Service Act began the move toward:
separating partisan politics from attaining government jobs.
A major difference between Theodore Roosevelt and the presidents of the Gilded Era was:
Roosevelt was much more aggressive in his use of presidential powers.
Reformers who focused on ending child labor faced resistance from big business and:
some poor parents who needed the extra income.
The Homestead Act
provided title to 160-acre parcels if owners “improved” them within five years.
Why did Congress repeal the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1877?
It wanted to open the Black Hills for gold seekers and land speculators.
Who was chiefly responsible for popularizing the theory of Social Darwinism?
Herbert Spencer
Why did the United States witness a surge of hysteria against the labor movement in the mid-1880s?
Americans feared the infiltration of foreign radicals through the labor movement.
Why did so many wives and children in immigrant families work for wages?
Most immigrant men did not make enough money to support a family.
Most immigrant men did not make enough money to support a family.
His photography made the plight of New York’s poor visible to millions.
Throughout the 1880s, 1890s, and long after, African American voters in the South overwhelmingly voted for
Republicans.
How did the Roosevelt corollary subvert the Monroe Doctrine?
It asserted the nation’s right to intervene in internal affairs in Latin America.
Homer Plessy argued before the Supreme Court in 1896 that the ___________ Amendment was violated by the forced segregation of streetcar passengers in Louisiana.
Fourteenth
Passed by Congress in 1910s, the Mann Act
outlawed the transport of women across state lines for “immoral purposes.”
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution mandated
the direct election of senators.
African Americans like Booker T. Washington opposed the annexation of the Philippines because
the U.S. should not try expand democracy abroad while democracy did not yet exist at home.
Match each entrepreneur below with the field of enterprise with which he is historically identified.
A. Andrew Carnegie 1. steel
B. John D. Rockefeller 2. oil
C. J. Pierpont Morgan 3. tobacco
D. James Duke 4. banking
A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
The _______________ Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regualtion by state governments.
Fourteenth
The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was
the availability of industrial jobs
Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activites except
instruction in socialism
The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian
assimilation
One problem with the Homestead Act was that
160 acres were inadequate for productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains
U.S. naval captain Alfred Thayer argued that
control of the seas was the key to world domination
The Teller Amendment
guaranteed that the United States would uphold the independence of Cuba
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was essentially facilitated by the publication of
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was essentially facilitated by the publication of
The Sixteenth Amendment provided for
a personal income tax
How did Indians respond to their disillusionment with failed government policies, ecological catastrophe, cultural collapse, and tribal sovereignty in the late 19th century?
Some turned to the so-called Ghost Dance that promised a death-like state of grace
A new genre of reporting emerged at the turn-of-the-century, derided by critics as
muckraking.
Why did the audiences of vaudeville shows enjoy the portrayal of contemporary ethnic stereotypes?
The numerous performances helped ease ethnic tensions and create a sense of belonging.
What did it mean for Indians, Puerto Ricans, and Filipinos to be “nationals”?
They owed allegiance to the U.S. but did not enjoy the privileges of citizenship.
The meeting of the International Council of Women that Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop attended in Paris in 1900 stressed
the responsibility of women protect and educate society.
