HIST 1302 Week 2 Quiz

The notion of the “white man’s burden” inspired a sense of fraternity among Anglo-Saxon nations.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

With the Redeemers in power in the South:

Critics later interpreted the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a commentary on the 1896 presidential election in which of the following ways?

The New South as promoted by Henry Grady:

The Platt Amendment:

Blacks owned more land in 1900 than they had at the end of Reconstruction.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:

The Sixteenth Amendment:

The election of 1912 evolved into a national debate over the relationship between political and economic freedom in the age of big business.

The term “Fordism”:

Why did the Wilson administration impose a graduated income tax in 1913?

Progressives had faith in government run by impartial experts, who were in many respects unaccountable to the citizenry.

Labor agents:

In 1912, the socialist weekly newspaper Appeal to Reason was the largest paper in the country.

Margaret Sanger was sentenced to a month in jail for opening a clinic in Brooklyn that distributed birth-control devices to poor immigrant women.