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| 8745185236 | How did economic development in Brazil during and after the American Civil War affect the lives of southern cotton farmers? | C. The expansion of Brazilian cotton cultivation lowered global prices for the crop and led to indebtedness and loss of land for southern farmers. | 0 | |
| 8745185237 | Which of the following prompted some urban observers to misjudge Populists as a backward looking movement? | D. Their belief in a commonwealth of small producers and the dignity of labor. | 1 | |
| 8745185238 | How did Populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets for their crops? | C. They called for public ownership of the railroads. | 2 | |
| 8745185239 | Why did Republicans succeed in winning over workers with the tariff issue? | C. They reasoned that a protective tariff would guard American businesses and its workers against cheap foreign competition. | 3 | |
| 8745185240 | Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of Reconstruction? | C. Investors came to the South for cheap labor and low taxes, so they made few capital investments in the region. | 4 | |
| 8745185241 | How did racial segregation in the labor market affect African-Americans women? | D. A high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic service. | 5 | |
| 8745185242 | How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow South? | C. they insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift." | 6 | |
| 8745185243 | Apart from the racial identity of victims , what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs? | D. The victim's alleged sexual conducts. | 7 | |
| 8745185244 | On what grounds did Justice David J. Brewer dissent from the majority opinion in the case of Fong Yue Ting (1893) that authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law? | B. Brewer worried that a similar rationale could be used in the future to subvert the rights to due process of other people. | 8 | |
| 8745185245 | The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890's reflectedL | C. A shift from broad reform goals to more limited goals. | 9 | |
| 8745185246 | Native-born middle-class women under the leadership of Carrie Chapman-Catt argued hat they deserved the right to vote on account of: | A. Their birth in the United States. | 10 | |
| 8745185247 | In contrast to the expansion of the 1890's, U.S. interests in Alaska originated in a desire for: | A. Territory. | 11 | |
| 8745185248 | Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American War? | D. The United States would have been barred from annexing the archipelago. | 12 | |
| 8745185249 | Which of the following was the reason for U.S. control over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines? | D. Control of strategic gateways from which to project American naval and commercial power. | 13 | |
| 8745185250 | Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-American War? | D. Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between North and South. | 14 | |
| 8745185251 | How did American racial attitudes shape South African politics? | D. The sense of shared purpose between the United States and the Union of South Africa led to a close military alliance aimed at the subjugation of sub-Saharan Africa. | 15 | |
| 8745185252 | Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following EXCEPT: | E. The free and unlimited coinage of silver. | 16 | |
| 8745185253 | The Farmers' Alliance: | C. Sought to improve conditions through cooperatives. | 17 | |
| 8745185254 | The People's Party: | A. Evolved out of the Farmers' Alliance. | 18 | |
| 8745185255 | Which statement about the People's Party is FALSE: | D. It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform. | 19 | |
| 8745185256 | The Populist platform: | C. Called for public ownership of railroads. | 20 | |
| 8745185257 | Which was NOT part of the Populist platform? | D. Higher tariffs. | 21 | |
| 8745185258 | The Populist: | D. Relied on women orators such as Mary Elizabeth Lease. | 22 | |
| 8745185259 | The severe depression of 1893: | E. Led to increased conflict between capitol and labor. | 23 | |
| 8745185260 | The 1894 Pullman Strike: | D. Collapsed when union leaders were jailed. | 24 | |
| 8745185261 | How were federal trooped used in the Pullman Strike of 1894? | B. To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners. | 25 | |
| 8745185262 | William Jenning's Bryan: | B. Ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform. | 26 | |
| 8745185263 | The silver issue: | C. Refers to the fight to increase the money supply by mining silver money. | 27 | |
| 8745185264 | Republican presidential candidate William McKinley: | C. Argued in favor of the gold standard. | 28 | |
| 8745185265 | The election of 1896: | A. Is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign. | 29 | |
| 8745185266 | Which statement about the 1896 election is FALSE? | E. William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard. | 30 | |
| 8745185267 | Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South? | B. Public schools. | 31 | |
| 8745185268 | In the South, The Redeemers: | D. Imposed a new racial order. | 32 | |
| 8745185269 | The New South as promoted by Henry Grady: | E. Promised prosperity based on industrial expansion. | 33 | |
| 8745185270 | Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus? | D. Blacks. | 34 | |
| 8745185271 | By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South: | B. Were forced out of politics and passed leadership to female African-American activists. | 35 | |
| 8745185272 | Between 1890 and 1906, southern state governments and white Southerners eliminated black voting using all of the following EXCEPT: | E. Racial tests. | 36 | |
| 8745185273 | Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE? | E. The Supreme Court upheld the grandfather clause. | 37 | |
| 8745185274 | Which statement about the South after 1890 is FALSE? | A. Whites feared that northerners and the federal government would abolish the Jim Crow laws. | 38 | |
| 8745185275 | Plessy v. Ferguson: | B. Sanctioned racial segregation. | 39 | |
| 8745185276 | In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court: | A. Ruled that "separate by equal" accommodations were constitutional. | 40 | |
| 8745185277 | All of the following were used by southern white to maintain domination over blacks EXCEPT: | E. Outlawing the use of black female domestic workers in white homes. | 41 | |
| 8745185278 | At the end of the nineteenth century, lynching: | B. Was an act of violence directed mostly at black men. | 42 | |
| 8745185279 | Twenty years after the Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South: | D. Suffered the most from the region's poor conditions. | 43 | |
| 8745185280 | How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890's as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation? | A. As a tragic family quarrel among white Americans, in which blacks played no significant part. | 44 | |
| 8745185281 | What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century? | D. It helped southern whites cope with defeat but preserve white supremacy. | 45 | |
| 8745185282 | The new immigrants: | C. Came from Southern and Eastern Europe. | 46 | |
| 8745185283 | The Immigration Restriction League: | D. Wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate. | 47 | |
| 8745185284 | The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: | E. Prohibited any Chinese from entering the United States. | 48 | |
| 8745185285 | The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: | E. Was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States. | 49 | |
| 8745185286 | The Supreme Court decision "United States v. Wong Kim Ark" ruled that: | A. The Fourteenth Amendment gave Asians born in the United States citizenship. | 50 | |
| 8745185287 | In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington: | B. Encouraged Blacks to adjust to segregation/ | 51 | |
| 8745185288 | Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor: | B. Restricted membership to only skilled workers. | 52 | |
| 8745185289 | The American Federation of Labor's founder Samuel Gompers used the idea of "freedom of contract" to : | A. Argue against interference by judges with workers' right to organize unions. | 53 | |
| 8745185290 | Americans have referred to the 1890's as the women's era because: | C. Women's economic opportunities and roles in public life expanded. | 54 | |
| 8745185291 | In 1900, most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in: | C. The garment industry and as domestic laborers. | 55 | |
| 8745185292 | The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): | C. Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's suffrage. | 56 | |
| 8745185293 | In the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association: | D. Argued that native-born white women's votes would counteract the "ignorant foreign vote." | 57 | |
| 8745185294 | After the 1890's, American expansionism: | B. Was partly fueled by the need to stimulate American exports. | 58 | |
| 8745185295 | American territorial expansionism: | B. Was a feature of American life since well before independence. | 59 | |
| 8745185296 | Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal", which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called: | A. Yellow Journalists. | 60 | |
| 8745185297 | Which statement about the Spanish-American War is true? | A. The was lasted only four months and resulted in less than 400 U.S. battle casualties. | 61 | |
| 8745185298 | The Teller Amendment stated that: | C. The United States would not annex Cuba. | 62 | |
| 8745185299 | The Spanish-American War: | C. Brought the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico under U.S. control. | 63 | |
| 8745185300 | In 1899, President William McKinley explained in an interview with Methodist Church leaders that his decision to annex the Philippines: | C. Was in part based on his desire to educate and uplift the Filipinos. | 64 | |
| 8745185301 | The Platt Amendment: | D. Authorized the United States to intervene militarily in Cuba. | 65 | |
| 8745185302 | President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT: | E. The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became and independent democracy. | 66 | |
| 8745185303 | The Philippine War: | B. Was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War. | 67 | |
| 8745185304 | All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true EXCEPT: | C. Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance. | 68 | |
| 8745185305 | The "white man's burden": | D. Comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling. | 69 | |
| 8745185306 | Which of the following stated that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories recently acquired by the United States? | B. Insular Cases. | 70 | |
| 8745185307 | In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court: | B. Held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired by the United States during the Spanish-American War. | 71 | |
| 8745185308 | During the "Age of Empire," American racial attitudes: | A. Had a global impact. | 72 | |
| 8745185309 | Supporters of the Anti-Imperialist League: | E. Believed that American energies should be directed at home, not abroad. | 73 |
