Quiz #3 Flashcards
Ida B. Wells led a nationwide campaign against
A. school segregation
B. disfranchisement
C. interracial marriage
D. lynching
D. lynching
Exp. Wells turned antilynching into a personal crusade
Which African American leader emphasized vocational education and manual training as a means of black advancement?
A. Henry Trotter
B. Marcus Garvey
C. Booker T. Washington
D. Ida B. Wells
C. Booker T. Washington
Exp. Washington counseled African Americans to work for their economic betterment through manual labor
Which of the following accurately describes voter participation during the late nineteenth century?
A. high on local level; very low on national level
B. generally very high—usually from 80 to 95 percent
C. varied—sometimes very high, sometimes very low
D. generally low—below 50%
B. generally very high—usually from 80 to 95 percent
McClure’s magazine pioneered a new style of journalism featuring writers like Lincoln Steffens who
A. scientifically analyzed social problems and proposed solutions.
B. provided voter information to reveal where candidates stood and whose money they accepted.
C. presented carefully researched exposés of corporate and government abuses.
D. employed a gritty realism that portrayed life in the slums.
C. presented carefully researched exposés of corporate and government abuses.
Exp. A new breed of journalists investigated wrongdoers, named them in print, and described their misdeeds in vivid detail
Which of the following statements about progressivism is accurate?
A. Progressives wanted to reform the evils spawned by capitalism but wanted to preserve capitalism itself
B. differed from populism in that progressivism was more urban and enlisted more journalists and academics
C. all of these
D. a political response to industrialism and its social by-products
C. all of these
On the tariff issue, ________ supported high protective tariffs; on the money question, ________ sought the inflationary consequences of printing greenbacks by adopting the silver standard.
A. southerners; Populists
B. Republicans; farmers and other debtors
C. Democrats; Republicans
D. large corporations and consumers; Democrats
B. Republicans; farmers and other debtors
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. . [. . .] . .Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.”
A. Upton Sinclair
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. John Muir
D. Theodore Rooselvelt
C. John Muir
Margaret Sanger worked to provide women with information about
A. voting rights
B. fashion
C. birth control
D. economic freedom
C. birth control
Exp. By distributing information on contraception, she hoped to free women from unwanted pregnancies and illegal “back alley” abortions that claimed lives.
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“. . . we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. . .”
A. Booker T. Washington
B. Samuel Gompers
C. WEB Du Bois
D. Andrew Carnegie
A. Booker T. Washington
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle played a significant role in advancing what reform?
A. the establishment of wildlife preserves
B. restrictions on child labor
C. regulation of the food industry
D. the direct election of the U.S. senators
C. regulation of the food industry
The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was finally passed in 1920 because
A. of women’s contribution to the war effort in World War I at home and abroad
B. the women agitating for it moderated their disruptive campaign
C. almost every state already allowed women to vote in local elections
D. a large majority of voters favored it
A. of women’s contribution to the war effort in World War I at home and abroad
Naturalist who inspired Teddy Roosevelt’s stance on conservation and the environment:
A. Margaret Sanger
B. Eugene V. Debs
C. William J. Bryan
D. John Muir
D. John Muir
If a voter in the late 1800s supported protective tariffs and the gold standard which political party did he most likely vote for?
A. Socialist
B. Populist
C. Deocratic
D. Republican
D. Republican
Exp. By documenting dishonesty and blight, muckrakers not only aroused people but also educated them
In the coal strike of 1902, Theodore Roosevelt
A. refused to intervene
B. sided with the employers; against the union
C. insisted that labor and management submit to arbitration
D. followed Cleveland’s precedent of deploying federal troops
C. insisted that labor and management submit to arbitration
The settlement house movement led to the new profession of
A. poverty law
B. psychotherapy
C. social work
D. home economics
C. social work
The ideology of progressivism, insofar as it had one, generally
A. was rooted in firm and fixed standards of morality and truth
B. stressed trying to meet the special needs of each identifiable private interest
C. mixed a liberal concern for the poor with a conservative wish to control social disorder
D. called for redistribution of incomes from wealthy to poor, and a socialist approach to government
C. mixed a liberal concern for the poor with a conservative wish to control social disorder
What issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?
A. civil-service reform and imperialism
B. civil-service reform and working conditions
C. money supply, civil-service reform, the tariff
D. money supply, urban slums, women’s suffrage
C. money supply, civil-service reform, the tariff
Identify the author or document from the following primary source quote:
“Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivalent is robbery. ‘If any will not work, neither shall he eat.’ The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical. . . We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own the railroads. . . “
A. Jane Addams
B. Andrew Carnegie
C. Teddy Roosevelt
D. Populist Party platform (1892)
D. Populist Party platform (1892)
Many historians consider the ________ the most important reform of the early twentieth century because it established the means for expanded federal action.
A. Sixteenth Amendment permitting income taxes on individuals and corporations
B. Nineteenth Amendment granting women’s suffrage
C. Eighteenth Amendment authorizing prohibition
D. Seventeenth Amendment providing for direct popular election of senators
A. Sixteenth Amendment permitting income taxes on individuals and corporations
The first modern governmental reform law, the Pendleton Act of 1883 enacted in response to the assassination of President Garfield, provided for
A. voting rights for blacks in the South.
B. the breakup of monopolistic business.
C. civil service merit standards and procedures for government jobs
D. a high protective tariff
C. civil service merit standards and procedures for government jobs
Which of the following political parties was made up primarily of farmers and other workers?
A. the Suffragette Party
B. None of these answers are correct
C. the Populist Party
D. the Freedom Party
C. the Populist Party
Exp. In February 1892 a convention of 900 labor, feminist, farm, and other reform delegates met in St. Louis and founded the People’s, or Populist, Party
If a voter in the late 1800s was a Catholic immigrant industrial worker which political party did he most likely vote for?
A. Republican
B. Democratic
C. Temperance Party
D. Communist
B. Democratic
Presidents during the Gilded Age were mostly
A. weak and ineffective
B. strong and influential.
C. All of these answers are correct
D. from third parties
A. weak and ineffective
Exp. From the 1870s through the 1890s a string of nearly anonymous presidents (Hayes, Garfield, Arthur) presided over the country. Some tried to energize the office, but Congress continued to dominate Washington.
Why did the federal government during the late nineteenth century tend to ignore the social consequences of industrialization?
A. Americans did not expect the federal government to intervene in economic or social affairs.
B. All of these
C. Within the Congress, there was little party discipline and little concern for national issues
D. Presidents were weak, and Congress held the political initiative
B. All of these
Which of the following third-party movements was the first to have a presidential candidate to receive over one million votes?
A. the People’s Party
B. the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
C. the Greenback Party
D. the Farmers’ Alliance
A. the People’s Party
