Question 1

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

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A)   White leaders presented disenfranchisement as a "good government" measure.
B)   Between 1890 and 1906, every southern state enacted laws or constitutional provisions meant to eliminate the black vote.
C)   In passing various laws to restrict blacks from voting, numerous poor and illiterate whites also lost the right to vote in the South.
D)   The elimination of black and many white voters could not have been accomplished without the approval of the North.
E)   The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 2

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Page Act

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A)  argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories
B)  excluded Chinese women from entering the United States
C)  separate, but equal
D)  warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy
E)  the United States was not to annex CubaF) politically active farmersG) gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth AmendmentH) labor unrest at a Carnegie steel millI) effort to keep free trade in ChinaJ) campaigned for temperanceK) excluded from votingL) blacks migrated out of SouthM) B) and F)
N) H) and I)

Question 3

The American Federation of Labor was very much like the Knights of Labor.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

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A)   was a stage actor of some renown.
B)   ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.
C)   argued in favor of the gold standard.
D)   lost to Bryan in 1896.
E)   was especially popular in the South.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 5

The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

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A)   hope for blacks to escape racial violence in the South.
B)   the migration of 40,000 to 60,000 African-Americans to Kansas.
C)   the eventual return of most black migrants to the South.
D)   the possibility of political equality, access to education, and economic opportunity was worth a long journey west for many African-Americans.
E)   many African-Americans stayed in Kansas because they did not have the means to travel farther.F) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 6

Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?

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A)   The war lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties.
B)   Congress indicated that it was going to war to annex Cuba.
C)   The war came as little surprise given the fact that William McKinley campaigned in 1896 on a platform favoring imperial expansion.
D)   Admiral Dewey secured Manila Bay by defeating the Spanish in a bloody three-day battle.
E)   The treaty that ended the war granted U.S. citizenship to the peoples of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 7

Filipino resistance leader Emilio Aguinaldo established a nationalist provisional government tied to principles rooted in communism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal,which sensationalized events to sell papers,were called:

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A)   yellow journalists.
B)   trustees.
C)   social reformers.
D)   muckrakers.
E)   freelancers.F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 9

In the 1890s,the National American Woman Suffrage Association:

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A)   supported the right of immigrant women to vote.
B)   supported the right of African-American women to vote.
C)   was dominated by working-class women.
D)   argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant foreign vote."
E)   argued that all women, regardless of race or ethnicity, should vote.F) B) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 10

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Nativism

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Nativism is a political and social ideol...

Question 11

Brooks Adams's book The New Empire (1902)predicted that because of its economic power,the United States would soon "outweigh any single empire,if not all empires combined."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-American War?

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A)   Americans had long wished for a colonial empire that included the Philippines.
B)   Americans had harbored deep resentments against Cuba ever since the Mexican-American War.
C)   A military victory against the most powerful military in the world at the time-Spain-was a source of much national pride.
D)   Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between North and South.
E)   Americans were eager to punish Spain for its loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War.F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 13

Education flourished in the South,with approximately one black high school for each county by 1900.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-John Marshall Harlan

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A)  advocate of free silver
B)  president of the American Railway Union
C)  believed politics was the place for women
D)  Populist Party presidential candidate
E)  advocated vocational training for blacksF) Supreme Court justiceG) pioneered "business unionism"H) fought with the Rough RidersI) led the Filipino insurrectionJ) promoted American expansionism via a navyK) fomented a revolution in CubaL) annexed the PhilippinesM) E) and I)
N) C) and L)

Question 15

American interest in its new possessions had to do with wanting wealth from natural resources and large-scale American settlement.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

"New immigrants":

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A)   defined mostly those from China and Japan.
B)   arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires.
C)   in contrast to "old immigrants," did not arouse the ire of nativists, who saw these newcomers as more willing to work.
D)   in Boston helped form an "Immigration Restriction League" as a response to Mexican immigrants.
E)   were welcomed by older immigrants.F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 17

How did the Populists seek to rethink the relationship between freedom and government to address the crisis of the 1890s? Why was their platform considered radical? How did their platform seek to guarantee freedom?

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The Populists sought to rethink the rela...

Question 18

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Populist Party

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A)  argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories
B)  excluded Chinese women from entering the United States
C)  separate, but equal
D)  warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy
E)  the United States was not to annex CubaF) politically active farmersG) gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth AmendmentH) labor unrest at a Carnegie steel millI) effort to keep free trade in ChinaJ) campaigned for temperanceK) excluded from votingL) blacks migrated out of SouthM) F) and G)
N) C) and J)

Question 19

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Spanish-American War

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The Spanish-American War was a conflict ...

Question 20

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Plessy v.Ferguson

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A)  argued that the Constitution did not apply to territories
B)  excluded Chinese women from entering the United States
C)  separate, but equal
D)  warned that empire was incompatible policy with democracy
E)  the United States was not to annex CubaF) politically active farmersG) gave Asians citizenship under Fourteenth AmendmentH) labor unrest at a Carnegie steel millI) effort to keep free trade in ChinaJ) campaigned for temperanceK) excluded from votingL) blacks migrated out of SouthM) B) and L)
N) I) and K)

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Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Page Act

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In the 1890s,the National American Woman Suffrage Association:

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American interest in its new possessions had to do with wanting wealth from natural resources and large-scale American settlement.

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Education flourished in the South,with approximately one black high school for each county by 1900.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Populist Party

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Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true?

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The American Federation of Labor was very much like the Knights of Labor.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Plessy v.Ferguson

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Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal,which sensationalized events to sell papers,were called:

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"New immigrants":

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Filipino resistance leader Emilio Aguinaldo established a nationalist provisional government tied to principles rooted in communism.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Marshall Harlan

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The "Kansas Exodus" meant all of the following EXCEPT:

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Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-American War?

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