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APUSH 18, 19, & 20 TEST REVIEWThe prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals? d. Bringing full equality to blacks In general, progressives differed from labor and farm advocates because
the progressives a. were mostly middle-class urban reformers. Between 1876 and 1892, Americans could be described as
a. highly partisan and politically active. The Pendleton Act of 1883 a. created the Civil Service Commission, which filled some government jobs by examination. Which of the following was the
first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts? Why did Congress abandon efforts to enforce black voting rights and fair elections in the South after 1892? d. Voters largely rejected Republicans and their policies in 1890, giving control of Congress and the presidency to the Democrats. In their 1892 Omaha Platform, Populists called for Which segment of the American population drove the creation and success of the People's Party in the early 1890s? How did the federal government respond when jobless men marched on Washington in 1894? c. Their leader Jacob Coxey was arrested and their demands were not met. Which of the following explains the inability of the Populists to become a major national
political party alongside the Republicans and the Democrats in the late 1890s? c. The economic depression of the 1890s In which of the following ways did American politics change during the mid-1890s? b. Democrats became almost the only political party in the South for decades. Which of the following was a result of the laws passed to disenfranchise blacks across the South in the 1890s and early 1900s? d. Segregation laws barring blacks from public and private places such as hotels, parks, and public drinking fountains were passed. What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he stated, "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" in his famous 1896 speech? a. The United States should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry. While William Jennings Bryan
promoted free silver; McKinley b. backed away from moral issues and courted new immigrants. To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to b. nationalize the coal companies. In a landmark decision regarding the Northern Securities Company, the U.S. Supreme Court c. ordered the Northern Securities Company railroad trust dissolved. What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1911 Standard Oil case? b. The monopoly was broken up into several competing companies. Which of the following statements characterizes
President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources? d. He was a conservationist who tried to balance commercial and public interests. Which of the following statements characterizes the state of the Republican Party in Congress at the beginning of the Taft administration? c. Conservatives opposed further reforms while progressives sought more radical change. Which of the following issues did most middle-class, grassroots progressives ignore in the early 1900s? b. Fighting for the civil and political rights of blacks and new immigrants The Supreme Court's 1908 decision in Muller v. Oregon upheld a law b. limiting the workday for women to ten hours. Between 1910 and 1917,
all the industrial states enacted laws that c. provided insurance for on-the-job accidents. Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois were both founders of the Which of the following was
promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette (1901-1905) as the Wisconsin Idea? a. Greater government intervention in the economy In the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World were committed to achieving c. a new society run by and for workers. What was the outcome of the 1912 presidential election? a. Wilson won with a minority of the popular vote because Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote. Which of the following is correctly matched? a. Adamson Act�eight-hour workday for railroad workers Which of the following
Progressive reforms amended the Sherman Act to prevent trusts from curbing competition? c. Newlands Reclamation Act What was the lasting legacy of the Progressive movement in America? b. Progressives drew the blueprint for the powerful American state suited to an How did working-class women gain access to the fine department stores in the United States in the late nineteenth century? c. Working-class women gained access as clerks, cashiers, and store messengers. Which of these late-nineteenth-century U.S. Supreme Court rulings settled the question of African Americans' access to regular first-class seats on American railroad cars until the 1950s? Which of the following describes the consumer culture that emerged in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States? Which of the following phenomena spurred changes in Americans' understanding of masculinity in the late nineteenth century? The growth of the YMCA in late-nineteenth-century American cities resulted from which of the following factors? d. The YMCA prompted "muscular Christianity" for white-collar workers. By the early 1900s, many business leaders encouraged their male workers to participate in sports to b. adjust to the demands of the industrial clock. The Gibson Girl of the 1890s personified which of the following female images? d. The middle-class "new woman"--public spirited and athletic As the United States
industrialized, the outdoors lost its association with danger and hard work and became newly associated with Which of the following is correctly matched? c. Sierra Club�founded by John Muir to preserve the environment Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech to Congress in 1892 on the "solitude of self" referred to the a. importance of women's autonomy in modern society. Which of the following statements characterizes family
life in the late 1800s? a. Family size continued its steady decline because middle-class children in cities were not needed for work. The Comstock Act took effect in 1873 and b. prohibited the circulation of any information about sex and birth control. Why did the rate of college attendance quadruple between the 1880s and the 1920s? c. The public university system expanded. Which of the following statements summarizes Booker T. Washington's approach to racial change in the United States? b. He promoted industrial education for blacks as a strategy for lessening white prejudice. Between 1880 and 1920, higher education for women was d. mostly at single-sex institutions in the Northeast and South. Which of the following describes the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in the late nineteenth century? b. It supported woman suffrage as a tool that could challenge the liquor interest. The Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU) was the first national movement to a. identify and fight against domestic violence. The National Association of Colored Women was effective in its efforts to improve the life of African Americans because it b. focused its attention on community issues such as public health. What did the
term petticoat rule mean when it was used by antisuffragists in the early twentieth century? a. If granted the right to vote, women might cancel husband's votes. In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists, such as William Graham Sumner, believed that c. millionaires were the fittest Americans. Which of the following authors rejected romanticism and Victorian sentimentality in their works? Which of the following authors is correctly matched with one
of his works? d. Mark Twain�A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Which of the following is the correct chronological order of the literary movements in the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s? c. Romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism Which of the following is true of religion in the city at the turn of the twentieth century? b. The Catholic Church incorporated ethnic differences in urban areas. In the late nineteenth century, many native-born, prosperous American Jews embraced Iowans created the American Protective Organization in 1887 to b. oppose the influence of Catholics in the United States. Protestant churches that espoused the Social Gospel d. taught that Christians should fight for social justice and the public welfare. The
urban revivalism of Billy Sunday represented a. the fundamentalism movement. What accounted for the relocation of manufacturing operations into urban areas post-Civil War? By 1900, which of the following was the primary means of urban mass transit in the US? Which of these statements describes the newly rising American middle class around 1900? Many preferred to live in suburbs bc of the safety and space Which of the following made the growth of skyscrapers possible? steel girders, plate glass, elevators Which of these inventions made residents feel safer in urban areas in the late 19th century? Which of the following statements describes immigrants' accommodation to city life in the US around 1900? Many relied on native language newspapers, the conviviality of saloons, and the assistance of mutual aid societies Around the turn of the century, AfrAms moving to cities in the North experienced which of the following? More discrimination than even the most downtrodden European immigrants Which of the following describes the tenements typical of urban areas in the early 20th century? buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments Which of the following phenomena emerged as an important new influence on urban entertainment in the early 20th century? The rise of nickelodeons, amusement parks, dance halls, vaudeville, and other cheap amusements in the late 19th century cities had which effect? challenging traditional courtship rituals Which of the following describes metropolitan newspapers post-Civil War? expanded to include human-interest stories and society and sports sections William Randolph Hearst's and Joseph Pulitzer's style of reporting? Which of the following statements characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's attitude toward muckrakers Appalled, they overemphasized negatives Correctly matched muckraker to reform area? Lincoln Steffens - corruption of US urban govts Which of the following describes the urban ptx machines of the late 19th century social service agencies providing assistance in times of trouble George Washington Plunkitt Tammany ward boss who courted all ethnic groups to win support Around 1900, if an ordinary American citizen either immigrant or not needed a favor, they would've turned to Which of the following statements characterizes urban ptx reform efforts in late 1800s and early 1900s Some reform mayors modeled their reform efforts on European efforts in Glasgow and Dusseldorf What spurred many big cities' pursuit of state of the art sewage and drainage systems at the end of the 19th century? attempts to build more/better urban park spaces, including playgrounds and gardens How did the early 20th century campaign against urban prostitution affect prostitutes? Closed brothels = worsened working conditions What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide to the working class through settlement houses in the early 20th century cities? stronger sense of civic enterprise and moral conviction
What caused Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906? Upton Sinclair's realist novel The Jungle What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 cause? NY passed the most advanced labor code in the country of its time Organized in 1905, the Niagara Movement embraced c. equal opportunity for African Americans. Which of the following statements characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources quizlet?Question : Which of the following statements characterizes President Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources? Student Answer: He was a preservationist who opposed the exploitation of natural resources.
What was President Cleveland's greatest public relations failure during his presidency?Which of the following was President Cleveland's greatest public relations failure during his presidency? backed away from moral issues and courted new immigrants.
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1911 Standard Oil case quizlet?What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in the 1911 Standard Oil case? The monopoly was broken up into several competing companies.
Which of the following statements characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nations national resources?Which of the following statements characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's approach to the nation's natural resources? He was a conservationist who tried to balance commercial and public interests.
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