HIST 1302- Test 2 – Flashcards
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The so-called "dumbbell tenement" was
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flawed in design, exacerbating the already abysmal living conditions of the urban poor.
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Mary Elizabeth Lease was
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a prominent Kansas Populist noted for her rallying cry to "raise less corn and more hell."
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During the administration of this Gilded Age president, the 51st Congress passed the McKinley Tariff, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and increased expenditures for the navy.
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Benjamin Harrison
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Which statement best describes Booker T. Washington's public approach to issues concerning the black community during this era?
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Washington advocated the pursuit of economic grains through hard work and technical training for blacks as a step toward the attainment of social equality.
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All the following statements describe various aspects of "new immigration" during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
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The so-called "new immigrants" quickly shed all their Old World traditions and customs to adopt an American way of life.
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The Mugwumps broke with their party to endorse this presidential candidate.
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Grover Cleveland
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"Nativists" believed that
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Immigrants threatened traditional American culture.
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This social reformer was a major proponent of reform Darwinism.
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Lester Frank Ward
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The Mulligan letters tied former Speaker of the House James Blaine to
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the bribes of rich railroad barons.
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The Pendleton Act, passed during Grover Cleveland's first term
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provided a merit system for national government jobs.
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The Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson was significant because
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segregation was permitted on the basis of establishing "separate but equal" facilities.
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Herbert Spencer
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coined the phrase "survival of the fittest.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was significant in American immigration history because it
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was the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race.
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The Padrone labor system was made illegal by the
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Foran Act.
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To resolve the highly contested presidential election of 1876, Republicans and Democrats agree to the Compromise of 1877 which included
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the withdrawal of federal troops from former Confederate states.
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______________ offered a strong critique of Booker T. Washington's approach to race relations and was a co-founder of the NAACP.
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W.E.B. Dubis
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What was the result of the 1895 Supreme Court case involving the E.C. Knight Company?
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A sharp distinction was drawn between commerce and manufacturing.
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All the following statements about the 1896 presidential election are correct EXCEPT:
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At the heart of the election debate was the issue over currency standards.
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All the following were major national issues during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
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Child Labor Legislation
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In 1887, Congress passed the ____________, making railroads the first industry subjet to federal regulation.
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Interstate Commerce Act
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In 1890, Congress tried to restore competition by outlawing the restraint of interstate trade by corporate monopolies with the _________ Act.
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Sherman Anti-trust
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All the following statements describe aspects of the so-called "Gilded Age" EXCEPT:
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The United States fell behind other industrialized nation in education, as women were continually denied access to American colleges.
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Those who supported the free coinage of silver
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were convinced it would help the agrarian sectors.
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The Populist party's Omaha platform advocated for all the following EXCEPT:
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a return to the gold standard
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This American author co-wrote "The Gilded Age," which offered a scathing social and political critique of late nineteenth-century America.
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Mark Twain
