APUSH Chapter 17 Quiz – Flashcards
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The Farmers' Alliance
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Sought to improve conditions through cooperatives
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The People's Party
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Attracted only workers
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The Populist platform
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Appealed only to farmers
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The severe depression of 1893
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Led to increased conflict between capitol and labor
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The federal troops used in Pullman Strike of 1894 were...
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To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners
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William Jennings Bryan
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Ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform
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The silver issue
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Refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money
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Republican presidential candidate William McKinely
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argued in favor of the gold standard
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The election of 1896
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Is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign
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The institution that was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South
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Public schools
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____ migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus
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Blacks
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By the end of the nineteenth century, African American men in the South...
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Were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African American activists
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True statements about the South after 1890
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Populists in some states openly counted black votes, poll taxes and literacy tests were used extensively to disenfranchise blacks, segregation policies were upheld by court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson, and the elimination of black voting rights could not have been accomplished without the approval of the North
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In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the Supreme Court...
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Ruled that separate but equal accommodations were constitutional
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At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching...
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Was an act of violence directed mostly at black men
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Twenty years after the end of Reconstruction, African Americans in the South...
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Suffered the most from the regions poor conditions
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The Civil War came to be remembered by the 1899s as the white north and south moved toward reconciliation because...
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As a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part
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The appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for the Southern whites in the late nineteenth century was...
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It helped southern whites cope with defeat but preserved white supremacy
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The new immigrants
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Came from southern and eastern Europe
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States
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In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington...
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Encouraged blacks to adjust to segregation
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Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's ear because...
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Women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union...
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Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's suffrage
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After the 1890s, American expansionism...
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Was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports
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The Spanish-American War
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Brought the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico under U.S. control
