Exam 1

Question 1

During the late 19th century, which group was not likely to vote for the Republican Party?

Answer 1

Southern whites

Question 2

The compromise of 1877 provided for all of the followings except?

Answer 2

The appointment of a majority of southerners to Hayes cabinet

Question 3

President Lincoln reacted to the Wade-Davis bill by?

Answer 3

Disposing of it with a pocket veto

Question 4

To decide the disputed election of 1876 Congress:

Answer 4

Created a special electoral commission to decide the outcome

Question 5

Which of the following Republican factions wanted to punish the south most severely during reconstruction?

Answer 5

The Radicals

Question 6

He was the handpicked choice of Theodore Roosevelt to be the Republican nominee for president in 1908?

Answer 6

WM. Howard Taft

Question 7

The provisions of the fifteenth amendment gave the right to vote to?

Answer 7

Black adult males

Question 8

President Lincolns plan for reconstruction can best be described as?

Answer 8

Mild

Question 9

Andrew Johnson was impeached because he?

Answer 9

Violated the tenure of office act and command of the army act

Question 10

The theme of virtually all of Horatio Alger’s novels were?

Answer 10

Poor boy makes good by hard work and character

Question 11

The most important issue of the 1896 presidential election was?

Answer 11

Silver issue/currency inflation

Question 12

The so-called “open door” foreign policy of WM McKinley was designed to protect American interests in?

Answer 12

China

Question 13

The Populist Party in 1892 favored 3 of the following, which was the exception?

Answer 13

Abolition of the graduated income tax

Question 14

After 1890 most immigrants to the United States arrived from?

Answer 14

Southern and Eastern Europe

Question 15

By the late 19th century, the term “robber baron” referred to?

Answer 15

Owners of big business and corporation

Question 16

Russell Conwell was a former Baptist minister who advocated the ideals and values of the “self-made man” with his motivational seminar entitled “acres of diamonds”
that he gave thousands of times in the late 19th century?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The American president that asked for war against Spain in 1898 was?

Answer 17

William McKinley

Question 18

The American railway union was an industrial union founded by George Pullman and James Hill in the late 19th century?

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The split in the Republican Party between Stalwart and Halfbreed factions concerned the?

Answer 19

Supporters of the opponents of President Grant

Question 20

Helping WM Jennings Bryan with the 1896 Democratically Presidential nomination was his?

Answer 20

Delivery of the dramatic “Cross of Gold” speech at the democratic nominating convention

Question 21

The expression “yellow press” referred to newspapers that in order to sell more papers emphasized?

Answer 21

Lurid Sensational and often-exaggerated news

Question 22

The referendum offers voters the opportunity to?

Answer 22

Accept or reject a proposal

Question 23

In Teddy Roosevelt’s suit against the Northern Securities Co. the Supreme Court ruled that the?

Answer 23

Ordered it to be dissolved and was only formed to eliminate the competition

Question 24

In the election of the 1892 Republican Party?

Answer 24

All of the above

Question 25

Which of the following American presidents was the first to gain success in the area of civil service reform?

Answer 25

C. Arthur

Question 26

Name this person: Corporate lawyer who exposed the corrupt tweed ring. He later won the govern ship of New York and the Democratic nomination for president in 1876?

Answer 26

Samuel Tilden

Question 27

Name this person: Radical senator from Massachusetts who was nearly caned to death on floor of senate during the “bleeding of Kansas” controversy?

Answer 27

Charles Sumner

Question 28

Name this person: Secretary of state under Lincoln and Johnson Who engineered the American Purchase of Alaska from Russia?

Answer 28

William M. Seward

Question 29

Name this person: Radical secretary of war who was removed from office by president Johnson and action provoking his impeachment

Answer 29

Edwin Stanton

Question 30

Name this person: Leader of an aggressive band of apache warriors. He established a base in the mountains of Mexico from which he raided the American countryside?

Answer 30

Geronimo

Question 31

Name this person: Seeking official protection at fort Lyon on sand creek Colorado. His camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians was attacked and massacred by the forces of Colonel Chivington?

Answer 31

Black Kettle

Question 32

Name this person: Leader of the small and relatively peaceful band of Nez Perce tribe. He led his tribe on a long chase from the U.S. army in an unsuccessful attempt to escape to Canada?

Answer 32

Chief Joseph

Question 33

Name this person: Probably the greatest leader of the plains Indians. This Sioux chief was one of many who surprised George Custer at the battle of little bighorn in 1876?

Answer 33

Crazy Horse

Question 34

Name this person: Labor leader, he converted to socialism while jailed for his defiance of an injection to break the Pullman strike?

Answer 34

Eugene Debs

Question 35

Name this person: English philosopher, he was the first and most important proponent of the theory of social Darwinism arguing that life is a struggle for the survival of the fittest?

Answer 35

Herbert Spencer

Question 36

Name this person: New york banker, he became the master of the trust, helping to “reorganize” the nations railroad system in the 1880s and the 1890s?

Answer 36

J.P. Morgan

Question 37

Name this person: Long-time president of the American federation of labor, he committed to the organization to a narrow craft-oriented view of unionism?

Answer 37

Samuel Gompers

Question 38

Name this person: Arrested for fraud and corruption earlier in his career and became president when Garfield was assassinated in 1881?

Answer 38

Chester Arthur

Question 39

Name this person: The handpicked candidate of republican political boss Marcus Hanna, he won the 1896 presidential election over WM J. Bryan?

Answer 39

WM McKinley

Question 40

Name this person: Winner of the disputed election of 1876, he was derided by democrats as “his fraudulency” and unable even to unite his own divided republican party?

Answer 40

R.B. Hayes

Question 41

Name this person: Noted as an honest reformer and committed to economy in government he remains the only American president to have served two non-consecutive terms in office?

Answer 41

Grover Cleveland

Question 42

T/F The populists in the election of 1896 nominated Ted the democrat as their candidate as well but nominated their own vice presidential candidate?

Answer 42

TRUE

Question 43

T/F The South lost more men, as a percentage of total population, than the north during the civil war?

Answer 43

TRUE

Question 44

T/F Andrew Johnson provided less sympathetic to Southern Whites than many northern had expected during reconstruction?

Answer 44

FALSE

Question 45

T/F Carpetbaggers were southerners, hated for their collaboration with the union government during reconstruction?

Answer 45

FALSE

Question 46

T/F The so-called “iron-clad” oath was part of Lincolns 10% plan for reconstruction?

Answer 46

FALSE

Question 47

T/F Most Americans favored Spain over the Cuban rebels in their attempt to put down the Cuban rebellion in 1895?

Answer 47

FALSE

Question 48

T/F Commodore George Dewey’s attack on the Spanish fleet at Manila resulted in the most difficult and bloodiest engagements for American forces in the entire Spanish-American war

Answer 48

FALSE

Question 49

T/F Alfred Thayer Mahan helped fuel the "new manifest destiny" with his book "the influence of seapower on history" published in 1890.

Answer 49

TRUE

Question 50

T/F The moving assembly line of mass production was introduced by Andrew Carneigie in his automobile plant in 1914

Answer 50

FALSE

Question 51

G. Cleaveland (1st term)

Answer 51

James Blaine

Question 52

R.B. Hayes

Answer 52

Samuel Tilden

Question 53

B. Harrison

Answer 53

Grover Cleveland

Question 54

G. Cleveland (2nd term)

Answer 54

Benjamin Harrison