Ch.17/18 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Which statement best describes Booker T. Washington’s public approach to issues concerning the black community during this era?
Which of the following statements best describes Grant’s Peace Policy?
Grant’s Peace Policy represented a complex set of initiatives designed to be more humane in the treatment of Native Americans while facilitating their assimilation into American culture.
Which of the following statement best describes the Plains Indian tribes?
They represented complex tribes, cultures, and bands but shared some general cultural characteristics, such as a similar outlook toward land ownership.
W. E. B. Du Bois:
urged African Americans to attend college and become professionals.
Which of the following statements best describes the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?
The Act made more “surplus” Indian land available for white settlement.
This book provided a powerful account of America’s exploitation of Native Americans over the centuries:
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson
All the following terms related to the post-Civil War South are correctly identified EXCEPT:
Elk v. Wilkins: This landmark Supreme Court case upheld southern states’ rights to include literacy tests and poll taxes as prerequisites for voting, leading to widespread disenfranchisement of African American voters in the South. (Answer)
The Mississippi Plan: This term refers to a series of state amendments that set the pattern for the disenfranchisement of African Americans, which was soon followed by nine other southern states.
The Wilmington Insurrection: This was a horrific mob uprising led by white supremacists whose violent rampage against African Americans marked the first time a lawfully elected municipal government had been overthrown in the United States.
Exodusters: This term refers to African American migrants to the West seeking an escape from southern racism and poverty.
Barbed Wire was invented by:
Joseph Glidden
In 1871, the United States government included a clause in an Indian appropriation bill that:
ended the practice of treaty agreements that dealt with Native American tribes as sovereign nations.
This social reformer was a proponent of reform Darwinism and the author of Dynamic Sociology:
Lester Frank Ward
All the following Gilded Age legislation are correctly identified EXCEPT:
Dependent Pension Act: This act created various programs to provide for the general welfare of Americans, including benefits for the elderly, surviving spouses, dependent children, the blind, and the physically disabled. The act established the precedent for future federally funded social welfare programs. (Answer)
Pendleton Act: this act established a merit system that required certain classified government positions to be filled through a system of competitive examinations. It also created a five-person civil service commission to supervise the new system, representing the first important step in civil service reform.
Sherman Anti-trust Act: this act was designed to restore competition by outlawing collusive arrangements in restraint of interstate trade by corporate monopolies, establishing a precedent for future federal regulation of monopolistic practices.
Interstate Commerce Act: This act established the ICC, empowered to supervise the affairs of railroads, investigate complaints, and issue “cease and desist” orders against railroads acting illegally, setting a precedent for federal regulation of business enterprises.
Although the Populist Party quickly faded away after the presidential election of 1896:
By the late 1880s, a popular religious movement among the Plains Indians was:
the Ghost Dance movement.
Despite being under the protection of the U.S. military at Fort Lyons, Cheyenne leader ___________ and his people were brutally attacked by the Colorado militia in what was later called the Sand Creek Massacre.
Black Kettle
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court:
upheld states’ right to segregation laws as long as both races received equal treatment.
To resolve the highly contested presidential election of 1876, Republicans and Democrats agree to the Compromise of 1877, which included:
the withdrawal of federal troops from former Confederate states.
A major factor that distinguished the “West” from other regions of the United States was that it:
was primarily the creation of the federal government.
Joseph McCoy is best known for:
establishing Abilene, Kansas as the first successful cowtown.
This civil rights activist launched a crusade against lynching, earning international acclaim for her well-researched analysis that exposed the real purpose behind this horrific practice:
Ida B. Wells
All the following individuals or groups related to the Gilded Age are properly identified EXCEPT:
Mugwumps: a conservative faction of the Republican Party who supported the existing patronage system and backed protective tariffs. (Answer)
Mary Elizabeth Lease: charismatic speaker for the Famers’ Alliance who is famous for her rallying cry to “raise less corn and more hell.”
Herbert Spencer: leading social philosopher who coined the term “survival of the fittest” to describe his application of Darwin’s theory of evolution to social progress.
William Macy Tweed: One of America’s most notorious machine bosses, who was head of New York City’s Democratic Party club called Tammany Hall.
In 1884, Jacob S. Coxey and his “army” marched to Washington to:
demand federally sponsored public works program for the unemployed.
The Padrone labor system was made illegal by the:
Foran Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was significant in American immigration history because it:
was the first federal law to restrict immigration based on race.
All the following Gilded Age political terms are correctly associated with their respective definition EXCEPT:
The Mulligan Letters: Incriminating letters which showed presidential candidate James Blaine had promised railroad executives political favors in exchange for railroad stocks.
“Waving the Bloody Shirt:” A term used to describe the Republican Party’s propensity to remind voters of the Democrat Party’s link to the Confederacy and the Republican Party’s heroic defense of the Union.
Wabash Case: a Supreme Court case in which the Court declared rate control on interstate railroad shipments by the state of Illinois was unconstitutional. As a result of the ruling, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act.
E.C. Knight Case: An anti-trust case in which the Supreme Court’s ruling strengthened the government’s ability to use the Sherman Antitrust Act to curtail monopolies. (Answer)
