One of the root causes of the major strike at the Pullman plant in 1893 was
the company's attempts to control the work process.
Why did the American temperance movement attract women in the late nineteenth century?
Drunkenness adversely affected women in many ways.
Which of the following describes the relationship between the Southern Farmers' Alliance and the Colored Farmers' Alliance?
They attempted to make common cause.
Which event led to the end of the Pullman strike of 1893?
The courts issued an injunction leading to the imprisonment of Eugene Debs.
What issues formed the basis of farmers' dissatisfaction in the late nineteenth century?
Banking, railroading, and speculation
How did the federal government respond when American sugar interests requested that the United States annex Hawai'i in 1893?
President Grover Cleveland withdrew the annexation request from Congress when he learned that Hawaiians opposed it.
By 1900, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) could claim credit for
providing a generation of women with experience in political action.
What did the United States hope to secure through the Spanish-American War?
Cuban independence from Spain
What was one outcome of the depression of 1893 in the United States?
It put nearly half of the labor force out of work.
What was the impact of the 1896 election on the Populist party?
The Populist party was the biggest loser.
How did the Populists propose to help American farmers in the 1890s?
They recommended creating a government-sponsored subtreasury.
What made America's foreign policy paradoxical in 1900?
The country wanted to keep the Western Hemisphere closed to outside influences yet also desired access to Asia.
For what reason was it difficult for the United States to win control of the Philippines after 1898?
Filipino revolutionaries fought against the United States for seven years.
The 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the war with Spain ceded which islands to the United States?
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What were the chief priorities of American diplomacy at the end of the nineteenth century?
The protection of the Monroe Doctrine and Open Door Policy from German and Japanese expansion into the Pacific and Asia
What happened after the governor of Pennsylvania ordered 8,000 National Guard troops into Homestead?
Frick reopened the mill using strikebreakers for labor.
At the St. Louis People's party convention in 1896, the Populist delegates decided to
nominate Tom Watson for vice president.
Which of the following describes the National Woman Suffrage Association, which Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed in 1869?
It demanded the vote for women.
Which one of the United States allowed women to vote in 1890?
Wyoming
Suffragists suffered a bitter defeat in 1896 when a referendum on woman suffrage failed in which state?
California
In addition to economic motivations, which factor contributed to U.S. expansion overseas in the 1890s?
Christian missionaries' eagerness to spread the Gospel
The platform of the People's party in the 1890s
presented an alternative vision of economic democracy.
The Platt Amendment in the 1898 Cuban constitution
gave the United States the power to oversee Cuban debt.
Compared to the Homestead lockout, labor's success at Cripple Creek demonstrated
the importance of state support in the outcome of labor disputes.
What sparked the Homestead lockout and the ensuing strike in 1892?
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers tried to renew its contract.
What did the public school system in late-nineteenth-century American cities provide?
Free tuition and open access to all school-aged children
Working-class courtship rituals in urban, industrial America in the late nineteenth century
consisted of informal meetings at dance halls and other commercial settings.
What circumstances enabled U.S. industrialists to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?
Railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants to America.
Working as a skilled craftsman in America in the late nineteenth century
did not ensure financial security.
Which group constituted the backbone of the American labor force throughout the nineteenth century?
Common laborers
What was the main lesson learned by workers from the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
They lacked power individually but might gain it through a union.
Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century
by replacing people with machines.
Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?
They lived in cities because jobs were available there and because they did not have the money to buy land.
Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of Labor,
fought for higher pay and better working conditions for skilled labor.
The racism directed at ethnic immigrant groups in America in the late nineteenth century
was the product of the perception that ethnic and religious differences were racial characteristics.
Which statement describes the Haymarket affair of 1886?
It began as a rally of laborers organized by radicals.
What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best-selling How the Other Half Lives (1890)?
He forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor.
As middle- and upper-class urbanites moved to new areas of their cities in the late nineteenth century, poor city dwellers
became socially segregated from the wealthy.
During the 1880s, the Knights of Labor advocated for
public ownership of the railroads, an income tax, and equal pay for women.
Which of the following describes the world economy at the turn of the twentieth century?
An industrial core, an agricultural domain, and a third world tied to the industrial core by economic colonialism
Which of the following describes the economic survival of the nineteenth-century American working-class family?
It depended on the employment of every family member.
Why did Congress approve a literacy test for immigrants in 1896?
As a means of limiting the influx of uneducated people into the country
How did the percentage of children under age fifteen working in the paid labor force in the United States change during the years leading up to World War I?
It increased decade by decade.
Most native-born white women who worked at the end of the nineteenth century held
clerical jobs in offices.
Where did married black women typically work to supplement their family income in the late nineteenth century United States?
Outside the home as domestics
Which statement describes the immigrant experience in late-nineteenth-century American cities?
Asian immigrants on the West Coast were made economic scapegoats.
How did most new women immigrants come to the United States in the late-nineteenth century?
As wives, mothers, or daughters
By the turn of the twentieth century, most big-city governments were run
by compromise and the accommodation of various powerful political forces.
Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s
for economic opportunities and safety.
After 1880, most new immigrants to America originated from
Eastern and Southern Europe.
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