Quiz Chapter 20 – Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age, 1877-1900 – Flashcards

The Pendleton Act provided for: a. higher protective tariff rates. b. separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. c. using silver as well as gold to back paper currency. d. civil-service reform.

In which election did the presidential candidate who won in the popular vote lose in the Electoral College? a. 1900--Bryan won the popular vote, but lost to McKinley in the electoral vote. b. 1884--Blaine won the popular vote, but lost to Cleveland in the electoral vote. c. 1896--Bryan won the popular vote, but lost to McKinley in the electoral vote. d. 1888--Cleveland won the popular vote, but lost to Harrison in the electoral vote.

All of the following were anti-imperialists who opposed U.S. subjugation of the Philippines except: a. Jane Addams. b. Mark Twain. c. Alfred T. Mahan. d. Samuel Gompers.

American imperialists argued that U.S. participation in the race for colonies would do all of the following except: a. provide bases for the U.S. Navy. b. bring civilization to backward peoples. c. provide the United States with new markets. d. cause lower taxes in the United States.

In the case of Wabash v. Illinois (1886), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that: a. states cannot regulate interstate railroads. b. the Granger Laws were a legitimate use of the state's police powers. c. the Interstate Commerce Act was unconstitutional. d. separate but equal facilities on railroads are constitutional.

The free-silver position of the Democrats and Populists in 1896 failed to win much support from urban labor because: a. workers liked Grover Cleveland and laissez-faire. b. factory workers were relatively prosperous in the 1890s. c. workers feared it would result in higher food prices. d. it would destroy labor unions.

The Teller Amendment was later partially repudiated by: a. the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. b. the Platt Amendment. c. Plessy v. Ferguson. d. the Sixteenth Amendment.

The yellow journalism of William R. Hearst's Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's World probably contributed to: a. Cleveland's election in 1884. b. Bryan's defeat in 1896. c. the passage of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses. d. America's declaration of war on Spain.

The Mugwumps were: a. Republicans who refused to support the spoilsman James G. Blaine for president in 1884 and switched their backing to the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. b. the reform Democrats and Republicans who gathered in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1892 to found the Populist Party. c. supporters of James G. Blaine for president in 1884 because of his call for an expansionist foreign policy. d. reformers who left the Republican Party in 1896 to support the Democratic and Populist candidate, William Jennings Bryan, and free silver.

Which of the following statements about Booker T. Washington is correct? a. He urged African-Americans to get a college education in order to improve their economic opportunities and fight for their rights. b. He joined Frederick Douglass in urging African-Americans to demand full equality and fight violence with violence. c. He advised southern blacks to migrate to the North, where they could still exercise their right to vote and where there were no segregation laws on the books. d. He secretly backed legal cases challenging disenfranchisement and segregation, but publicly advised African-Americans to accept the loss of the vote and segregation.