Unit 6 Point Redemption – Flashcards
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1. "Machine politics" was
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a. a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban areas
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2. Which of the following functions was not typically performed by political bosses and precinct captains?
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b. They ran settlement houses
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3. Which of the following pieces of legislations is correctly paired with its effect?
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c. Currency Act of 1900: set aside a gold reserve that could be legally exchanged for paper currency
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5.. What event triggered the Panic of 1893?
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a. The collapse of the railroad
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8. What was the main importance of the government's establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission?
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a. It established the principle of federal government regulation of interstate transportation
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10. Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?
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e. The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters
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14. Which of the following was not a goal of the Populist and Farmer's Alliance movement?
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c. a higher protective tariff
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17. What happened to James Garfield's presidency?
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b. It never really got started since he was assassinated soon after coming to office
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18. What was the Grange (the patrons of Husbandry)?
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e. an organization of farmers
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22. Where was the Democratic party strongest in the late 19th century?
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a. South
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25. How did the settlement house movement distinguish itself form other urban social-welfare organizations?
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c. It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor
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26. Who established the Hull House?
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b. Jane Addams
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27. Which of the following people established an inner-city church to reach out to the poor?
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b. William S. Rainsford
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31. The Young Men's Christian Association and The Young Women's Christian Association were formed mainly to...
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a. assist rural young men and women who migrated to the city
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33. Mary Harris Jones
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a. was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families
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35. Who argued that "The law of survival of the fittest was not made by the man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only
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b. William Graham Sumner
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20. What did the Pendleton Act do?
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a. It established a civil-service commision
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36. What did Karl Marx argue?
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d. the capitalist would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt
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38. Which of the following is not one of the reasons that the American Federation of Labor was the most successful union in the late 19th century?
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d. It was a tightly organized federation that required all members to give up their autonomy and independence for the good of the whole.
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39. What did Henry Grady advocate?
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c. He advocated diversifying the economy and expanding industrial production in the South.
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41. Which of the following was one of the secrets of John D. Rockefeller?
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a. He paid attention to minutest details and understood the benefits of vertical integration.
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42. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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e. outlawed trusts and other monopolies that fixed prices in restraint of trade.
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43. In the United States v. Knight Company, the Supreme Court diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by ruling that
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a. manufacturing was not interstate commerce.
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48. Where did Andrew Carnegie learn many of the successful management methods he used in the steel?
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c. as a foreman in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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50. Which of the following statements concerning the United States Steel Company is true?
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c. It was the first business capitalized at more than $1 billion.
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51. Besides the fact that its all-inclusive membership undermined its unity, why did the Knights of Labor collapse in the late 1880s?
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a. Workers became disillusioned when a series of unauthorized strikes failed.
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53. Which of the following statements concerning the use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is true?
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c. It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor.
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54. Which of the following is not one of the ways that Andrew Carnegie revolutionized the steel industry?
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d. restructuring the criteria for wages so that his workers could have the highest wage scales in the country.
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55. The 1898 Curtis Act
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c. dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments.
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60. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West
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c. presented mock battles of army scouts and Indians as morality dramas of good versus evil.
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62. The Treaty of Fort Laramie led to the
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b. establishment of the Great Sioux Reserve in what is now South Dakota.
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64. The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to
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d. undermine tribal bonds by treating Indians as individuals.
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69. Which of the following statements concerning "Buffalo Bill" Cody is not true?
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c. He represented the American government in negotiations with the Apache
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72. Which of the following was not one of the principles advocated by Terrence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor?
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e. widespread and aggressive use of strikes.
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77. Who supported the New South Creed?
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a. industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.
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78. How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s?
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b. Southern cotton mills were located in the countryside rather than in the cities.
