Quiz 16-18 Flashcards
What is the term for new principles of scientific management of labor that emerged at the end of the 19th century?
a. Fordism
b. Social Darwinism
c. Industrialization
d. Taylorism
Taylorism
What is the term for the idea that economic inequality is not only natural but beneficial to society?
a. Fordism
b. Social Darwinism
c. Industrialization
d. Taylorism
Social Darwinism
Which of these was an early labor union that famously tried to organize workers across differences of skill, gender, and race?
a. The American Federation of Labor
b. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
c. The Knights of Labor
d. The Congress of Industrial Organizations
The Knights of Labor
What was the name for the Federal act that offered free land to settlers willing to live on and improve Federally owned land in the West?
a. The Allotment Act
b. The Homestead Act
c. The Indian Removal Act
d. The Pacific Railroad Act
The Homestead Act
What violent conflict between white setllers and the Native Americans began in the prairie land of southwestern Minnesota?
a. The Dakota War
b. The Red River War
c. Red Cloud’s War
d. The Modoc War
The Dakota War
What was the name of the advisory body created under PResident Grant that attempted to develop a peaceful and assimilationist Indian policy?
a. The Bureau of Indian Affairs
b. The Board of Indian Commisioners
c. The Office of Indian Trade
d. The Department of the INterior
The Board of Indian Commisioners
NOT BUREAU OF AFFAIRS
What was the name of the Native religious movement that gained wide popularity beginning in the late 19th century?
a. Sand Creek
b. Ghost Dance
c. Round Dance
d. Tenskwatawa
Ghost Dance
What is Turner’s Thesis”?
a. A theory of society that argues the strong will prevail over the weak.
b. An argument that a peaceful solution to white-Native American relationsw was possible
c. The idea that three things–guns,germs, and steel– determined the history of the “New World”
d. A theory of American history that interprets it as long movement of a frontier, giving American society its specific character
A theory of American history that interprets it as long movement of a frontier, giving American society its specific character
Who was a co-founder of the NAACP that did extensive research and writing on lynching in the South?
a. WEB DuBois
b. Booker T Washington
c. Mary Church Terell
d. Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells
Which of these are used extensively in the Jim Crow era to prevent African-American political partcipiation?
a. Property qualifications
b. Literacy tests
c. Mass incarceration
d. Closing polling places
Literacy Tests
