HIST 1302 Week 2 Quiz

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Question 1

            American workers received higher pay than their European counterparts, but their working conditions were more dangerous.                         

           

 

·        True

·        False

                                   

Question 2

Male farmers experienced the most hardship on the Great Plains, because farm women did not experience long days in the fields.                               

           

o   True

o   False

                                   

Question 3

William G. Sumner believed that the role of government extended to helping the poor.                           

                         

·        True   

·        False

                                   

Question 4

The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn:                         

           

·        brought an end to the hostilities.

·        resulted in no U.S. army casualties.

·        only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

·        came after an unprovoked attack by Indians.

·        was typical at the time.

 

Question 5

The Dawes Act was an extension of the treaty system practiced by the American government since the Revolutionary War.                        

           

·        True

·        False

                                   

Question 6

Why did President James Buchanan replace Utah’s territorial governor Brigham Young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857?                                 

           

·        Under Young, Utah had granted Native Americans equal citizenship.

·        Brigham Young was a known polygamist.

·        Brigham Young had advocated for slavery in the trans–Mississippi West.

·        It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed.

·        Mormons had slaughtered more than 100 settlers in the Mountain Meadows massacre.

 

                       

Question 7

The Grange was an organization that:                             

           

·        pushed for railroads to acquire more land in the West.

·        pushed for the eight-hour day.

·        sought to raise railroad rates.

·        established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output.

·        opposed government regulation of shipping charges.

 

 

                                   

 

 

Question 8

Which of the following properly assesses the direction of the “Christian lobby” in the Gilded Age?                             

             

·        The “Christian lobby” sought more to legislate individual morality rather than to improve society.

·        Protestant reformers of the Gilded Age typically made common cause with labor unions.

·        These Christian political organizations focused primarily on civil rights issues.

·        The “Christian lobby” sought more to legislate individual morality rather than to improve society.

·        Activists from the Bible Belt steered clear of hot-button issues like sexual violence or birth control.

·        These mainstream Protestant reformers looked for structural change.

 

 

                                   

Question 9

How did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations to cities?                         

·        Increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet.

·        Increasing output in the countryside created a new prosperity that allowed rural populations to travel.

·        Peasants made such tidy profits in agriculture that they could afford to move to cities.

·        New production methods that were at the heart of growing farm productivity alienated many rural folks familiar with traditional farming practices.

·        Since the growing agricultural output attracted ever-larger numbers of immigrants to the countryside, the older generations of rural settlers left for the cities.

·        Increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet.

 

 

 

 

                                   

Question 10

What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?                                 

             

·        Respect and equality.

·        A spirit of kinship to fix the ills of society together.

·        A redistribution of wealth.

·        Nothing at all.

·        Cooperation, in order to move ahead.

 

Question 11

Racial and ethnic groups added their own elements to the western myth, including celebrating the Mexican-American outlaw, Gregorio Cortez.

                                   

             

·        True

·        False

                                   

Question 12

Lochner v. New York voided a state law establishing ten hours per day, or sixty per week, as the maximum hours of work for bakers, claiming that it infringed on individual freedom.                              

             

·        True

·        False

 

Question 13

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

                                               

·        abundant natural resources.

·        low tariffs.

·        a growing supply of labor.

·        federal land grants to railroads.

·        availability of capital for investment.

 

 

Question 14

Before the Civil War, most Chinese arrivals in the American West were single men, but by the 1870s, Chinese families had begun to arrive.     

                       

·        True

·        False

                                   

Question 15

Which of the following was included in theatrical and dime novel depictions of the American West?                          

·        Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting.

·        Labor conflicts in western mines.

·        The role of the federal government in the region’s development.

·        Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting.

·        The growth of cities in the Pacific Northwest.

·        The demise of cattle drives.

 

 

Question 16

The Greenback-Labor Party:                                 

·        wanted the federal government to stop taking money out of circulation.

·        wanted the federal government to stop taking money out of circulation.

·        wanted banks to control the money supply.

·        was unable to elect any of its candidates, even on the local level.

·        wanted to decrease the money supply.

·        supported the use of force against striking workers.

 

 

 

Question 17

Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is FALSE?

 

 

·        The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket.

·        A bomb exploded, killing a police officer.

·        The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket.

·        Seven of the eight men accused of plotting the Haymarket bombing were foreign born.

·        Employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals.

·        Laborers were gathered at Haymarket Square to demonstrate for an eight-hour workday.

                                   

Question 18

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:                        

·        encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.

·        fought against segregation.

·        continued the abolitionist political tradition.

·        encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation.

·        called for political equality.

·        opposed vocational education for blacks.

 

 

                       

Question 19

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

           

·        True

·        False

                       

 

 

 

 

           

Question 20

Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT:                                

           

·        the high tariff policies of the federal government.

·        excessive interest rates for loans from bankers.

·        high freight rates charged by railroads.

·        the fiscal policy that reduced the supply of money in the economy.

·        the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

                                   

 

Question 21

In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court:                        

           

·        held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War.

·        determined that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were entitled to the same rights as U.S. citizens.

·        held that the annexation of the Philippines violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

·        determined that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos would become U.S. citizens in 1904.

·        ruled that the Foraker Act of 1900, which declared Puerto Rico an “insular territory,” was unconstitutional.

                                   

Question 22

Brooks Adams’s book The New Empire (1902) predicted that because of its economic power, the United States would soon “outweigh any single empire, if not all empires combined.”                  

 

·        True

·        False

 

 

 

Question 23

 “New immigrants”:                        

           

·        in contrast to “old immigrants,” did not arouse the ire of nativists, who saw these newcomers as more willing to work.

·        in Boston helped form an “Immigration Restriction League” as a response to Mexican immigrants.

·        arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires.

·        were welcomed by older immigrants.

·        defined mostly those from China and Japan.

 

 

Question 24

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the significance of the 1892 strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania?

 

                                   

§  The strikers’ defeat spelled the end of future union organization by skilled industrial workers.

·        The outcome made Americans look more violent than their British counterparts.

§  It demonstrated the enormous power of large corporations and reflected the belief of many working Americans that they were being denied economic independence and self-governance.

§  Press scrutiny of the strike sent stock prices up for Carnegie Steel Company, suggesting that “all press is good press” for corporate owners.

§  Public outcry over the involvement of the state militia in crushing the strike prompted the resignation of Pennsylvania’s governor.

 

 

                                   

Question 25

The Homestead Strike demonstrated that neither a powerful union nor public opinion could influence the conduct of the largest corporations.                                

                       

             

True

False

 

Question 26

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):                         

                       

·        was a small organization of radical feminists.

·        was a single-issue organization out to ban alcohol.

·        moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women’s suffrage.

·        was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

·        argued that politics was not the place for women.

 

 

Question 27

The “Kansas Exodus” meant all of the following EXCEPT:                            

                       

·        the possibility of political equality, access to education, and economic opportunity was worth a long journey west for many African-Americans.

·        the migration of 40,000 to 60,000 African-Americans to Kansas.

·        hope for blacks to escape racial violence in the South.

·        many African-Americans stayed in Kansas because they did not have the means to travel farther.

·        the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.

 

 

                                   

Question 28

Chinese demands for equal rights forced the Supreme Court to define the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment.                         

                       

·        True

·        False

 

           

                                   

Question 29

In 1893, American sugar growers orchestrated the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani, paving the way for the U.S. annexation of Hawaii in 1898.

                                   

·        True

·        False

 

Question 30

In contrast to the expansion of the 1890s, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for:                              

                       

·        territory.

·        religious conversion.

·        petroleum resources.

·        the fur trade.

·        salmon.

 

 

Question 31

The Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruled that:                             

                       

·        the federal government had the right to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law.

·        the Fourteenth Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship.

·        San Francisco had to grant licenses to Chinese-operated laundries.

·        Chinese women were forbidden to immigrate to the United States.

·        Chinese merchants were exempt from the Chinese Exclusion Act.

 

Question 32

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:                               

                       

·        led to a decrease in discrimination and violence against the Chinese.

·        only barred immigration of Chinese women.

·        was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States.

·        led to the deportation of the 105,000 Chinese people living in the United States in 1882.

·        led to an increase in civil rights for Chinese people and Chinese-Americans living in the United States.

 

 

Question 33

The Populists made remarkable efforts to unite black and white small farmers on a common political and economic program.                         

           

·        True

·        False

                                   

Question 34

In 1896, in the landmark decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court gave its approval of state laws requiring separate facilities for blacks and whites.                               

             

 

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 35

Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers’ ideas on the political process?                         

                       

·        Progressive reformers rejected party labels but were themselves highly partisan politicians.

·        Progressive reformers believed in the civil rights of children but refused to lower the voting age to sixteen.

·        Progressive reformers took every opportunity to disclose scandals in muckraking magazines, but they also called for a restriction of free speech.

·        Progressive reformers recorded the votes of nativists but promised more liberal reforms on immigration.

·        Progressive reformers worked both to expand the electorate and to shrink its size through other measures.

 

 

Question 36

The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between:                            

                       

·        New Orleans dockworkers and militia.

·        Colorado mine workers and militia.

·        North Carolina textile workers and the police.

·        the IWW and the Massachusetts police.

·        Plains Indians and the U.S. army.

 

 

Question 37

New sexual attitudes during the Progressive age were limited to the radical bohemia of New York’s Greenwich Village.                         

                       

o   True

o   False

 

 

Question 38

As president, Theodore Roosevelt was persuaded by Gifford Pinchot to refrain from setting aside millions of acres of federal land as wildlife preserves.                            

                       

·        True   

·        False

 

           

                                   

Question 39

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:                                 

                       

·        occurred during the Uprising of the 20,000.

·        was the worst fire in U.S. history.

·        brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

·        resulted in laws that banned all manufacturing in New York.

·        destroyed the business, but there were no casualties.

 

 

Question 40

Socialism flourished in cities such as Milwaukee and New York during the first two decades of the twentieth century.   

                       

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 41

Birds of passage were:                               

                       

·        strikebreakers who were sent in by factory owners.

·        stowaways on passenger ships, attempting to immigrate to America.

·        immigrants who visited settlement houses for temporary help.

·        immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland.

·        single women who worked until they got married.

Question 42

The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:                            

                       

·        was never successful on the local level.

·        was insignificant because the courts consistently supported workers’ rights to assemble, organize, and spread their views.

·        was not an issue of concern to most workers.

·        was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.

·        was led by the American Federation of Labor.

                                   

Question 43

Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?                           

·        Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions.

·        Workers had to work longer hours under scientific management.

·        Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions.

·        Scientific management typically lowered wages.

·        Safety conditions worsened when companies introduced scientific management.

·        Foremen tended to drive workers with more brute force under scientific management.

                                   

Question 44

Why did Progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World?                                   

                       

·        The Italians had introduced a series of laws securing equal rights for women.

·        The French had built a strong reputation in the field of rehabilitative prison programs.

·        Russian bureaucrats had innovated ecumenical churches that offered welfare programs.

·        Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation.

·        British legislators were far more advanced in their thoughts on racial diversity.

 

 

 

 

Question 45

The conservation movement reflected the Progressive thrust toward efficiency and control.                                                      

·        True

·        False

 

Question 46

When Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican nomination for president in 1912, he ran as the Progressive Party candidate.                                 

                       

·        True

·        False

 

           

Question 47

The Progressive era’s birth-control movement was characterized by:                                  

                       

·        public lectures on sexual freedom and contraception by activists such as Emma Goldman.

·        little beyond reassuring women that they had the right to refuse their husband’s sexual advances.

·        the distribution of birth-control devices by Margaret Sanger.

·        a belief in a woman’s right to an active sexual life, but only in conjunction with childbearing.

·        A and C.

 

 

Question 48

The Sixteenth Amendment:                                   

                       

·        granted women the right to vote.

·        instituted the initiative, referendum, and recall.

·        authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax.

·        called for the direct election of senators.

·        prohibited the use and sale of alcohol.

 

 

Question 49

Which of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House is NOT true?                               

                       

·        Addams built kindergartens for immigrant children.

·        Addams believed that immigrant women primarily needed union protection.

·        Hull House and other settlement houses provided careers for the “new woman.”

·        Hull House was modeled on a settlement house in London.

·        Addams established employment bureaus and health clinics.

 

 

Question 50

Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued that economic independence for women did not necessarily mean a change in the home and family relationships.                            

           

·        True

·        False