Unit 1 Test Test Questions – Flashcards
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
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abolished slavery
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Which constitutional amendment was intended to provide for the protection of black voters?
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Fifteenth Amendment
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The intention of the Fourteenth Amendment was to
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to protect the citizenship right of males
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President Andrew Johnson was impeached because
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He attempted to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act
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The Freedmen's Bureau was designed to
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aid former slaves and war refugees adjust to life after the Civil War
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"Black codes" were
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laws passed by southern state legislatures to restrict the freedoms of blacks.
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What do Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk universities, and Hampton Institute have in common?
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They were all predominantly black institutions that were established in the years immediately following the Civil War.
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Under the sharecropping system, poor farmers would
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rent land from large landowners in exchange for half the crop produced on the land.
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In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?
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to remove the remaining federal troops from the South.
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Which one of the following was a result of the impeachment and trial of President Andrew Johnson?
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A precedent was established against the impeachment of presidents solely on political grounds
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Which of the following statements accurately describes most Great Plains Indians in the mid-nineteenth century?
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They hunted the migratory buffalo herds and utilized the all of the animal's body.
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The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to
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undermine tribal bonds by treating Indians as individuals.
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Which of the following statements concerning "Buffalo Bill" Cody is not true?He was a famous scout. In the popular imagination, he came to represent an idealized hero. He represented the American government in negotiations with the Apache. He killed over thousands of bison in the late 1860s. Edward Judson wrote a widely-read dime novel about him.
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He represented the American government in negotiations with the Apache.
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The Homestead Act
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offered 160 acres of land to any settler who would pay a $10 registration fee, live on the land for five years, and cultivate it.
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Which of the following statements best describes the attitude of western state governments regarding woman suffrage?
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They generally supported woman suffrage, sometimes hoping that it would attract women, families, and economic growth.
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Which of the following statements best describes cowboys?Cowboys were well paid and generally enjoying comfortable working conditions. Cowboys were almost always white, because there was a deep prejudice against blacks and Mexicans among cattlemen. Cowboys were usually the owner-operators of cattle ranches. Cowboys were usually ne'er-do-well drifters. Most were in their teens and twenties and worked for a year or two before pursuing different livelihoods.
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Most were in their teens and twenties and worked for a year or two before pursuing different livelihoods.
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Nat Love and Bose Ikard were
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black cowboys
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Which of the following was not a reason the days of the open range and great cattle drives came to an end after the mid-1880s?
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The demand for beef declined as more people turned to cheaper food.
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The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 occurred when
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thousands of settlers rushed into the Oklahoma Territory on April 22, 1889, to stake out homesteads.
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Whose campaign to protect the wilderness led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park and the founding of the Sierra Club?
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John Muir
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The 1892 World's Columbian Exposition was
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A world's fair held in Chicago, Illinois.
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Why was the Interstate Commerce Commission established?
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to investigate and oversee railroad activities.
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At the end of the Civil War, what communications system did the railroads use to coordinate their complex flow of rail cars?
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The magnetic telegraph
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Who founded Standard Oil?
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John D. Rockefeller
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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outlawed trusts and other monopolies that fixed prices in restraint of trade.
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Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent?
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phonograph
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In the late nineteenth century, child labor was
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common in the coal mines and cotton mills.
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Why did women join the work force in growing numbers in the late nineteenth century?
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Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes.
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Horatio Alger influenced American society by
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propagating the "rags to riches" idea.
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What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886?
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It resulted in intensified animosity toward labor unions.
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In what type of building did most urban poor people live in the late 19th century?
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tenements
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Who was known as the king of ragtime?
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Scott Joplin
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The Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association were formed mainly to
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assist rural young man and women who migrated to the city
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The Salvation Army
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organized along pseudo-military lines to provide food, shelter, and temporary employment for families.
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How did the settlement-house movement distinguish itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?
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It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor.
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Who established Hull House?
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Jane Addams
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According to its defenders in the late nineteenth century, college football
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was a character-building sport that could function as a surrogate frontier experience in an increasingly urbanized society.
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During the late nineteenth century, the working-class saloon was not
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a meeting place for husbands and wives.
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What form of theatrical entertainment drew the largest audiences in late-nineteenth-century America?
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Vaudeville
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Where was baseball the most popular?
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in urban areas with large working-class populations
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How did William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer change the newspaper industry?
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They competed for readers by writing sensationalized stories that captured the reader's attention.
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What happened to James Garfield's presidency?
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It never really got started since he was assassinated soon after coming to office.
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Which of the following was not a tool that southern states used to disfranchise blacks after Reconstruction?
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Outright legal prohibitions
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In late-nineteenth-century cases dealing with the rights of blacks, what did the Supreme Court decide?
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Racial segregation was constitutional as long as each race had equal facilities.
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In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
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separate but equal facilities for the different races were constitutional.
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The Teller Amendment asserted that the United States had
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no interest in sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control of Cuba.
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Which of the following was not one of the approaches the United States used in dealing with Cuba in the years after the Spanish-American War?
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by cancelling most American investments in the island.
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What happened in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War?
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Filipino resistance fighters fought a protracted and bloody guerrilla war against United States rule.
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"Machine politics" was
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a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban areas.
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Which of the following functions was not typically performed by political bosses and precinct captains?
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The ran settlement houses.
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During the first two decades of the twentieth century, what was the greatest source of urban population growth?
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Immigration
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Jim Crow laws were
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a method of imposing strict segregation in things like streetcars, trains, schools, parks, public buildings, and cemeteries.
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Who were the muckrakers?
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Investigative journalists who wrote exposés on large corporations
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John Muir is best known for his work in
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preserving America's wilderness areas.
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In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the corruption in
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the meatpacking industry.
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What did the Triangle Shirtwaist fire illustrate about the problems in American society?
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the heavy toll that industrialization had taken on American life.
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What did Booker T. Washington believe was the best way for blacks to improve their status in the United States?
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They should accommodate themselves to segregation and disfranchisement while at the same time working hard and proving their economic value to society.
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W. E. B. Du Bois was the author of
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The Souls of Black Folk.
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Which of the following women was not a leader of the woman-suffrage movement in the late 19th and/or early 20th centuries?
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Margaret Sanger
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What might be considered Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring domestic legacy?
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increasing public interest in environmental conservation
