History Chapter 19 Flashcard
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"Boss" Tweed led the Tammany Hall political machine in Chicago after the Civil War.
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false
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"Nativism" included religious prejudice against all the following except
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Presbyterians.
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"Nativism" was the belief that immigrants could, and should, be Americanized quickly.
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False
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After 1890, the "new immigrants" included all the following except
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Scots-Irish.
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All of the following are true of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act except that it
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set up the Interstate Commerce commission.
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By 1900, the United States had more saloons than grocery stores.
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True
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By the 1880s, the federal government operated at a surplus because of the
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revenues generated by the tariff.
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Charles Darwin did not agree with Herbert Spencer's adaptation of his ideas to the human realm.
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True
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During the Gilded Age,
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Congress was evenly divided between the two major parties.
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During the Gilded Age, the same party never controlled the presidency and Congress.
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False
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During the election of 1896, who said, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns"?
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William Jennings Bryan
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Herbert Spencer's disciple who popularized social Darwinism in America was
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William Graham Sumner.
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Idaho, Wyoming, South and North Dakota were all admitted as new states under administration of:
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William Henry Harrison.
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In 1882, Congress passed legislation to exclude immigrants from
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China.
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In 1890, 80 percent of New Yorkers were foreign born.
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True
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In 1892, Ellis Island became the gateway of entry for immigrants from Asia.
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False
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In 1900, 90 percent of the people in Manhattan lived in rented houses or in congested, low-cost tenements.
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True
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In Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
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individual states could not regulate railroad rates.
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In the 1880s, the source of foreign immigration to the United States shifted from
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northwestern Europe to southeastern Europe.
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In the election of 1888, the central issue was
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the tariff.
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In the late nineteenth century, more people moved from rural areas to the cities than from the East to the West.
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True
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Middle-class recreation for women and children included all the following except
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Vaudeville.
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Party loyalty and voter turnout in the Gilded Age were primarily motivated by intense cultural conflicts among ethnic groups.
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True
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People were shocked by Darwin's Origin of Species because most still embraced a literal interpretation of the biblical creation story.
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True
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Saloons were very important to the social life of men as they served as a place to check job listings, cash paychecks, and read newspapers.
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True
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The Alliance created a third-party political party, called the People's Independent Party, to address their specific needs.
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True
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The Democratic party appealed to southern white voters.
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True
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The Democratic party generally consisted of
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southern whites, immigrants, and political outsiders.
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The Interstate Commerce Commission was the first federal regulatory agency.
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True
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The Pendleton Act allowed for the coinage of more silver.
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False
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The Republican party during the election of 1892 supported an eight-hour workday, and sought to protect American jobs by limiting immigration.
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False
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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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increased the amount of silver the government purchased.
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The Stalwarts in the Republican party strongly supported
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Radical Reconstruction.
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The basic problem that farmers faced in the late nineteenth century was
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the overproduction of agricultural products.
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The implications of social Darwinism included
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a belief in the progress of human societies.
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The period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century was labeled the Gilded Age because of its greed and vulgarity.
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True
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The phrase "survival of the fittest" was coined by
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Herbert Spencer.
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Vaudeville was the name given to
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variety shows.
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William Jennings Bryan won the election of 1896.
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False
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Women typically had less leisure time than men.
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True
