2nd Marking Period Study Guide Flashcards
(50 cards)
What were the goals of the kkk?
Intimidating the blacks and undermining them politically
What group was the greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against president Cleveland? In the 1894 midterm elections
The republicans
What did the billion dollar congress do to dispose of over expenditures.
Expand pensions for civil war veterans
When Grover Cleveland was president, his hands off support of government gained the support of what group of people?
Business people
How did the courts ingeniously interpret the fourteenth amendment to benefit corporations?
Avoid corporate regulations by the states.
The Sherman’s anti trust act was first primarily used to curb the power of what group?
Labor unions.
What group of people were most affected by the new Industrial Age?
Women
How did the Knights of labor believe they could preserve republican traditions and institutions from corrupt monopolists?
By strengthening the economic and political independence of workers
What services and activities did settlement houses such as hull house engage in?
Instructions in socialism.(cultural activities, child care, and instructions in English
How did religious modernists deal with Christianity and Darwinism?
Carefully
What did Henry George believe should happen with unearned windfall profits of those who did not work for them?
They should be taxed at a 100% rate by the government.
What was the main argument presented by advocates of women’s suffrage in 1900?
Argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world.
What skill demonstrated by Indians often defeated US soldiers during conflicts?
Horseback riding
Who was the author of a century of dishonor?
Helen hunt Jackson
What three wild frontier towns were where the three major cattle trails form Texas ended?
Abilene, Kansas; Ogallala, Nebraska; and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
What was one of the greatest problems faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870’s?
The scarcity of water.
How was the border disputes between Venezuela and Britain settled?
Arbitration of the Venezuelan and British claims.
For what reasons did Americans favor providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries?
All but belief that Spain’s control of Cuba violated the anti colonial provisions of the Monroe doctrine.
How were American soldiers received after invading Puerto Rico during the Spanish American war?
Most of the population greeted the invaders as liberating heroes.
At the time what was the most controversial event associate with the Spanish American war?
Acquisitions of the Philippines
What did the war fought by Americans in the Philippines against the phillipinos cause the Americans to use
Resulted in torture and atrocities committed on both sides
How was president Mckinley’s policy of benevolent assimilation in the Philippines received by their people?
Was not appreciated by the Filipinos
What was the United States response to the boxer rebellion?
Abandon it’s General principles on non entanglement and non engagement on overseas conflict
Be able to identify characteristics that would describe teddy Roosevelt.
Progressive but willing to compromise.
