Deck 18: Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: the 1890s

Question 1

Why did Kate Chopin's 1899 novel The Awakening prompt outrage among critics?

A) They rejected her conceptualization of war.
B) They claimed that the plot involved too much bloodshed.
C) They objected to the sympathetic portrayal of the heroine.
D) They were scandalized by the novel's sexual content.

Answer 1

They objected to the sympathetic portrayal of the heroine.

Question 2

__________ was the author of Principles of Psychology.

A) Eric Fromm
B) William James
C) Sigmund Freud
D) william James

Answer 2

William James

Question 3

In The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane explored the fears and self-delusions of a __________.

A) recent immigrant
B) wealthy industrialist
C) young black sharecropper
D) Union soldier

Answer 3

Union soldier

Question 4

Frederick Jackson Turner noted that the __________ Census Report concluded that the frontier had disappeared.

A) 1890
B) 1880
C) 1870
D) 1900

Question 5

In 1899, both __________ and the Northern Pacific Railroad successfully lobbied for two new national parks.

A) John Muir
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Gifford Pinchot
D) Jane Addams

Question 6

In the case of _________, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was constitutional.

A) Holden v. Hardy
B) Prigg v. Illinois
C) Dred Scott v. Sandford
D) Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 7

As chief of the Division of Forestry, __________ promoted the concept of natural resource management.

A) John Muir
B) William Howard Taft
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Gifford Pinchot

Question 8

Booker T. Washington was the founder of __________.

A) the Hampton Institute
B) Howard University
C) the Tuskegee Institute
D) Morehouse College

Question 9

__________'s The Awakening prompted outrage among critics.

A) Stephen Crane
B) Henry James
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Kate Chopin

Question 10

Several factors account for the obsession with race in the 1890s, including which of the following?

A) Progressive reformers became aware of discrimination and oppression of minority groups.
B) The supposedly "scientific" nature of racial categories was largely discredited.
C) The "New Immigration" from eastern Europe raised concerns about conferring citizenship on non-Anglos.
D) Non-whites had come to make up more than 50 percent of the American population.

Question 11

Memphis newspaper editor Ida B. Wells led the fight against _____________.

A) lynching
B) school segregation
C) disfranchisement
D) unfair hiring practices

Question 12

Booker T. Washington urged black people to __________.

A) leave the South
B) concentrate on economic goals
C) form their own nation
D) fight for their civil rights

Question 13

__________ was an outspoken critic of the "Atlanta Compromise."

A) Marcus Garvey
B) Henry Frick
C) W.E.B. Du Bois
D) Booker T. Washington

Question 14

Which of the following was true of Sigmund Freud?

A) He argued that dreams reveal the dreamer's unconscious desires.
B) He claimed that dreams were fundamentally meaningless.
C) He posited that people's surroundings profoundly influence their behavior.
D) He explored the fears and self-delusions of former soldiers.

Question 15

What were students taught at the Carlisle Indian school?

A) vocational skills
B) Greek and Latin
C) the liberal arts
D) traditional Indian religion

Question 16

Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis promoted the idea of American __________.

A) isolationism
B) universalism
C) imperialism
D) exceptionalism

Question 17

Which of the following was true of the Court of Private Land Claims?

A) It favored European American claimants over Hispanic settlers.
B) It was created in the early eighteenth century.
C) It was created to handle land disputes in the Northeast.
D) It was abolished in 1891.

Question 18

The 1891 lynching of eleven Italian immigrants in __________ drew no public outcry.

A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Atlanta
D) New Orleans

Question 19

Why did John Muir establish the Sierra Club?

A) to fight for workers' rights
B) to campaign for racial equality
C) to work for women's suffrage
D) to promote wilderness preservation

Question 20

According to Frederick Jackson Turner, what had shaped all of American history?

A) Protestant beliefs and values
B) The process of settling the West
C) Racial superiority
D) The stain of slavery

Question 21

After 1895, Great Britain __________.

A) withdrew entirely from the Western Hemisphere
B) intensified its colonization efforts in Central America
C) intensified its colonization efforts in South America
D) concentrated on strengthening its diplomatic ties with the United States

Question 22

What led Americans to view Robert Peary as a national hero?

A) his explorations of the Arctic
B) his seizure of Hawaii
C) his escape from a Chinese prison
D) his valor in the Spanish-American War

Question 23

How did Grover Cleveland respond to the 1893 revolt that deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii?

A) He refused to support the revolt.
B) He quickly annexed Hawaii.
C) He sent troops to Hawaii to return the queen to her throne.
D) He quickly granted Hawaii statehood.

Question 24

What was the impact of the selection of William Jennings Bryan as the Democratic presidential nominee in 1896?

A) It virtually ensured a Democratic victory in November.
B) It alienated the Populists.
C) It prompted Conservative Democrats to leave the party or sit out the election.
D) It convinced the Republicans to nominate Grover Cleveland.

Question 25

The 1890 __________ Tariff imposed a high duty on a wide variety of imported goods.

A) Garfield
B) Roosevelt
C) Hawley-Smoot
D) McKinley

Question 26

The Populist Party platform, endorsed at its Omaha convention in 1892, included which of the following?

A) limited coinage of silver and gold
B) the abolition of the income tax
C) government ownership of railroad companies
D) a temperance amendment to the Constitution

Question 27

Why did employers in the 1890s manipulate racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices among workers?

A) to improve efficiency
B) to keep them happy
C) to increase productivity
D) to keep them from unifying

Question 28

In 1894, Jacob Coxey led a march on Washington, D.C. to protest __________.

A) the arrest of several prominent American socialists
B) high tariffs and unlimited coinage of silver
C) racial discrimination
D) the failure of government to provide relief to the unemployed

Question 29

Which of the following was a consequence of the Pullman strike?

A) Railroad traffic ground a halt.
B) The nation faced a steel shortage.
C) Food prices skyrocketed.
D) Riots broke out in several American cities.

Question 30

Most early settlement houses failed to reach out to __________.

A) African Americans
B) recent immigrants
C) poor women
D) young girls

Question 31

Which of the following accurately characterizes American society in the 1890s?

A) The gap between the very rich and ordinary working Americans had grown very large.
B) America was as socially unified as it had ever been.
C) Racial animosities were in steep decline.
D) Population growth had slowed dramatically.

Question 32

__________ managed the company response to the 1892 Homestead strike.

A) Henry Clay Frick
B) Andrew Carnegie
C) Thomas Pinkerton
D) Theodore Roosevelt

Question 33

__________ rose to fame as a result of his "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic convention.

A) Marcus Hanna
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) James G. Blaine
D) William Jennings Bryan

Question 34

What did Westerners get in exchange for their support of the McKinley Tariff?

A) support for the annexation of Hawaii
B) passage of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
C) tax subsidies for railroads
D) passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 35

Thorstein Veblen coined the term "__________."

A) conspicuous consumption
B) New South
C) Atlanta Compromise
D) Gilded Age

Question 36

What led to the formation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association?

A) the merger of two women's suffrage associations
B) the split up of a major women's suffrage association
C) the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
D) the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

Question 37

The Populists gained strength when __________.

A) Grover Cleveland joined the party
B) a national economic depression hit in 1893
C) they won three Senate seats in the election of 1888
D) the Democrats split into two rival factions

Question 38

Emma Goldman was a self-proclaimed __________.

A) preacher
B) anarchist
C) prophet
D) genius

Question 39

In United States v. E. C. Knight, the Supreme Court __________.

A) sanctioned racial discrimination
B) limited the scope of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
C) gave legal protection to labor unions
D) reversed its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 40

Which of the following contributed to the defeat of incumbent president Benjamin Harrison in 1892?

A) a scandal involving his Secretary of the Treasury
B) unhappiness with his Free Silver policy
C) the exclusion of the U.S. from Chinese markets
D) widespread discontent over the McKinley Tariff

Question 41

Explain Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis. Why did he think that 1890 was a turning point in American history?

Question 42

The Teller Amendment guaranteed __________ independence once the Spanish-American War was over.

A) the Philippines'
B) Cuba's
C) Guam's
D) Indonesia's

Question 43

What were the key elements of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise"?

Question 44

The sequence of events that led to the Spanish-American War began in 1895 with __________.

A) the Spanish violation of the Monroe Doctrine
B) the assassination of William McKinley
C) a clash between American and Spanish forces in the Philippines
D) a Cuban revolt against Spanish colonial authorities

Question 45

According to the Hearst newspapers, who was responsible for the destruction of the Maine?

A) the Spanish
B) Cuban rebels
C) incompetent American sailors
D) the company that made the ship

Question 46

Between 1875 and 1900, __________ production in Hawaii soared.

A) sugar
B) rice
C) cotton
D) indigo

Question 47

In 1895, the United States signaled to __________ that it was prepared to go to war to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

A) Portugal
B) Russia
C) France
D) Great Britain

Question 48

Mark Hanna and Mark Twain agreed that __________ was insane.

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) William McKinley
C) William Jennings Bryan
D) Alfred Thayer Mahan

Question 49

What motives were behind American overseas expansion in the 1890s?

Question 50

The Platt Amendment stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from __________.

A) Guam
B) Puerto Rico
C) Philippines
D) Cuba

Question 51

In his writings, Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that the United States needed __________.

A) a large and powerful navy
B) to place a moratorium on immigration
C) stronger anti-trust laws
D) a new constitution

Question 52

Commodore Dewey led the American invasion of __________.

A) Panama
B) Spain
C) Cuba
D) the Philippines

Question 53

What explains why no viable workers' party or socialist movement emerged in late nineteenth-century America?

Question 54

What led William McKinley to order a preemptive attack on the Philippines in 1898?

A) He looked to open trade with Japan.
B) He aimed to involve the British in a war with Spain.
C) He wanted to gain control of China.
D) He hoped to hobble the Spanish navy.