All Possible Questions You Will Find in Quiz B - Check
Your Knowledge
These questions are used as quizzes. These questions are also 1/3 of the questions for the objective part of the Exam that ends Unit 1, with the other 2/3rds coming from the two other quizzes in this Unit.
These questions are from Chapter 17 and 18.
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1 |
Among the most famous of
authors of the Gilded Age is this person who wrote such books as The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and who even named the age: a. Horatio Alger b. Mark Twain c. Thomas Nast d. Helen Hunt e. Herbert Spencer |
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2 |
The philosophy known as Social Darwinism a. is associated with Herbert
Spencer b. held that "survival of
the fittest," a term Spencer coined, applied to people c. was supported by the Social
Gospel movement d. both a and b |
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B |
3 |
Social Gospel adherents
concentrated their efforts on a. providing assistance to slum
residents. b. helping working men battle alcohol addiction. c. preaching the gospel to business leaders. d. bringing prostitution to an end. |
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4 |
In 1890, the Census Bureau
announced that a. b. most Americans lived in urban areas. c. d. both a and b |
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B |
5 |
Middle-class women, frequently
in women's clubs, supported various reform movements, such as: a. Groups working with women and
children in slums, providing legal services to help mothers and children, and
trying to improve the working conditions of women workers b. Settlement houses, such as
Hull House founded by Jane Addams, to bring reformers to live in the slums to
help assimilate immigrants c. Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, led by its president Francis Williard, with
its goal of ending consumption of alcohol. d. all of the above. |
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B |
6 |
Representative of the reform
in the Gilded Age and of the strength of the Prohibition movement was this
President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union: a. Jane Addams b. Helen Hunt c. Francis Willard d. Thomas Nast e. Herbert Spencer |
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7 |
Which of the following was not
a complaint of farmers? a. Railroad rates were too
high. b. Railroads discriminated
against farmers in favor of middlemen and manufacturers. c. Farmers wanted more currency
in circulation. d. Farmers wanted to reduce the
number of farmers and farms. e. All of these were complaints
of farmers. |
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8 |
Complaints of western farmers
were vocalized by the a. Republicans. b. Populists. c. Socialists. d. Democrats. e. none of the above |
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B |
9 |
Which of the following was not
one of the a. a subtreasury
system b. regulation of transportation
facilities c. free and unlimited coinage
of silver d. abolition of the income tax e. direct election of senators |
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10 |
Which of the following was
passed shortly after President Garfield's assassination, in part because of his assassination? a. Bland-Allison Act b. Dawes Severalty Act c. Pendleton Civil Service Act d. Chinese Exclusion Act e. Interstate Commerce Act |
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11 |
The Chinese Exclusion Act of
1882 barred Chinese from moving into a. b. c. d. e. the |
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B |
12 |
Most "new immigrants"
to the a. were from Southern and Eastern b. entered the c. were quickly assimilated into the dominant society. d. were from Northern and |
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B |
13 |
As the number of immigrants
increased in the late 1800s a. most Americans welcomed the newcomers into their
communities. b. many found it necessary to move into the Southwest
to obtain land. c. prejudice and religious
intolerance increased. d. Catholics began to get more
involved in politics. |
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B |
14 |
The Dawes Act of 1887 a. attempted to divide reservations into single farms.
b. planned to use farm ownership to
"civilize" the Native Americans. c. made more land available to whites. d. all of the above. Tip:
The
Dawes Act is also called the Dawes Severalty Act. The word severalty means to own as an
individual, not at tribe. The land (160 acres, the number of acres used with
the Homestead Act) went—theoretically—to individual Indians, not the tribe. |
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B |
15 |
The individual associated with a. Alexander Graham Bell b. Thomas Edison c. Joseph Glidden d. George Westinghouse |
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B |
16 |
Buchanan Duke made his fortune
by mechanizing part of this industry (one that was in the South since the
colonial era). a. banking b. railroads c. steel d. oil e. tobacco |
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B |
17 |
John D. Rockefeller made his
fortune in a. banking. b. railroads. c. steel. d. oil. e. tobacco |
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B |
18 |
Andrew Carnegie, who dominated the
steel industry, worked to achieve vertical
integration in his business, which meant a. allowing blacks the same access to jobs as whites. b. working hard to continually become more productive. c. controlling all aspects of an industry. d. building ever larger and taller buildings. |
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B |
19 |
Many people associated the
Haymarket affair with labor violence, resulting in a. losses in membership for most unions. b. a purge of union radicals from leadership
positions. c. a complete restructuring of the unions so they
would seem more orderly. d. the outlawing of national unions. e. both a and c |
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B |
20 |
The American Federation of
Labor a. became heavily involved in the politics of the
time. b. excluded the majority of industrial workers. c. embraced immigrant laborers. d. never gained more than 100,000 members. |
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B |
21 |
The union that embraced women,
blacks, and agricultural workers, as well as workers from various skilled
crafts, was the a. American Federation of
Labor. b. National Labor Union. c. Knights of Labor. d. American Railway e. Ladies Garment |
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B |
22 |
The __________ industry was the
first to confront large-scale labor issues. a. oil b. steel c. railroad d. farm equipment e. textile |
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B |
23 |
In the case of Munn v. Illinois, the Supreme Court
ruled that __________ were legal. a. monopolies b. regulatory commissions c. pools d. rebates e. trusts |
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B |
24 |
The federal government's first attempt
to regulate the railroads was to a. pass the Interstate Commerce Act. b. adopt higher tariffs against foreign competition. c. pass the National Reclamation Act to determine a
fair price for railroad services. d. prosecute railroad magnates such as Cornelius
Vanderbilt for abuses. e. pass a law outlawing monopolies. |
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B |
25 |
The South faced many problems
after the Civil War, including a. decimation of its forests with the growth of the
lumber industry. b. low wages in its few factories. c. a lack of necessary capital for investment. d. both b and c |
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B |
26 |
In the years following the end
of Reconstruction, "Redeemers" sought to a. keep the South from becoming industrialized. b. join with "Readjusters"
in fighting for more public services. c. help blacks in the South gain more rights. d. bring urbanization and development to the "New
South." |
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B |
27 |
For African Americans in the
South, the post-Reconstruction era included a. an increase in tenant farming and sharecropping. b. an increase in violence. c. an increase in segregation laws. d. continuing discrimination. e. all of the above |
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B |
28 |
In the segregated South, blacks
faced a. separate railroad cars and public facilities. b. literacy requirements and poll taxes designed to
keep them from voting. c. lynchings and other forms
of violence. d. housing and job discrimination. e. all of the above |
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B |
29 |
The Colored Alliance died out after
a strike among black cotton pickers in a. blacks being barred from the cotton fields. b. the imprisonment of the leader, Ben Patterson. c. the lynchings
of fifteen strikers d. both a and c Tip: Use the index not only for the Colored
Alliance, but also for lynching. Notice how lynching only occurs
beginning in the mid-1880s—almost 20 years after the end of the Civil War.
What does that tell you? Tip: Use the dictionary in the Web Resources. What
does the word lynching mean? Who does it? Why would local government let this
happen? |
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30 |
Captain Alfred T. Mahan, a
leading American imperialist, pushed the a. construct a strong army. b. build a canal across c. curtail foreign commerce. d. build a strong navy. |
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B |
31 |
Queen Liliuokalani of a. missionaries began to intermarry with the Hawaiian
people. b. American settlers usurped
power from the Hawaiians and basically took over the government. c. the McKinley tariff of 1890 virtually destroyed d. both b and c |
These
questions are in some cases based on questions in the test database for
American Passages.
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