Test 2-The gilded age

Question 1

3 factors that have national politics during the gilded age its distinctive texture

Answer 1

• national political parties were “dominant forces”
• the close division between republicans and democrats in congress
• very high voter turnout

Question 2

3 types of differences between the parties

Answer 2

• religious
• ethnic
• geographic differences

Question 3

Republicans

Answer 3

Prohibiting alcohol

Question 4

Democrats

Answer 4

Irish immigrants

Question 5

3 factions within the Republican Party

Answer 5

• the stalwarts
• the half breeds
• the mugwumps

Question 6

Interstate commerce commission was created to

Answer 6

Regulate the railroad

Question 7

The problem with the tariff was

Answer 7

It fostered big business at the expense of small producers

Question 8

Who didn’t support for coins of silver to be made available?

Answer 8

Big business

Question 9

What was hard on farmers?

Answer 9

Property taxes

Question 10

The farmers alliance

Answer 10

Helped form the populist party

Question 11

The populist party:

Answer 11

• small farmers and wage labored

- more government intervention

Question 12

Jim Crow laws were

Answer 12

Laws passed in the south that mandated the seperation of races in public places

Question 13

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 13

Separate by equal facilities

Question 14

Booker T Washington: true or false?

Answer 14

False

Question 15

WEB Dubois: true or false?

Answer 15

False

Question 16

4 reasons the US expanded its military presence: name the 1 false reason

Answer 16

Communist trying to take over the pacific

Question 17

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Answer 17

Powerful navy

Question 18

Queen Liliuokalani:

Answer 18

The sister of the Hawaiian king

She intended to stop the political power that American planters had in the gov

Question 19

Who was elected president when Hawaii was annexed to the US and it was in 1898?

Answer 19

William McKinley

Question 20

Yellow Journalism: true or false?

Answer 20

False

Question 21

The Maine: true or false?

Answer 21

False

Question 22

Teller amendment

Answer 22

Statement declaring that the US has no intention of annexing Cuba

Question 23

Battle of Manila Bay: true or false?

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Rough riders were made up of:

Answer 24

Former Ivy League athletes, ex convicts, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Pawnee,Creek Indians, southwestern sharpshooters, Theodore Roosevelt

Question 25

US inspires a revolution: true or false?

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Greater Democracy:

Answer 26

• direct primary
• initiative and referendum
• recall

Question 27

Commission system

Answer 27

Galveston Tx

Question 28

Social justice focused on these causes:

Answer 28

• closing saloons
• improvising prisons
• shelters for women & children
• 8 hr workday
• better nutrition
• public playgrounds
• federal inspection of food
• free kindergartens
• uniform marriage & divorce laws
• child labor
• manufacturers

Question 29

Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

Answer 29

Workers died in fire

Question 30

Teddy Roosevelt: true or false?

Answer 30

False

Question 31

Low crop prices: true or false?

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Book: true or false?

Answer 32

False

Question 33

What was the novel The Gilded Age about?

Answer 33

Widespread political corruption and corporate greed