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The 13th amendment, adopted in 1865, states that:
Slavery will no longer exist in the United States.
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Guidebook authors and agents for land grant
railroads and immigration companies tended to describe the American West as:
A new Eden filled with fertile land.
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According to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision:
Separation facilities for blacks and white were illegal.
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The “new immigrants” whose migration to the United States increased after 1880 came mainly from:
Southern and eastern Europe.
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In the working class neighborhoods of American industrial
cities in the three decades after the civil war:
Ethic groups often gathered in a particular area.
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A successful leader of the American federation of labor was:
Samuel Gompers.
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By 1890, blacks found the Republican Party:
Willing to compromise black needs to obtain political support for other issues.
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An example of a reform union would be:
The knights of labor.
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Maine was destroyed by:
Persons Unknown.
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In the last three decades the nineteenth century, political bosses who dominated city government:
Provided social services which formal government did not.
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The leader of the American Railway Union was:
Eugene V. Debs
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The “Bourbons” are best understood as:
Southern “redeemers” who wanted to exclude blacks from power.
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The grange (or patrons of Husbandry) hoped to help farmers by creating:
Co-ops to bring down the cost of supplies to the farmer.
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The idea behind horizontal integration of a monopoly is to:
Gain control of an industry choke point to gain control the entire industry.
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The idea behind vertical integration of a monopoly is to:
Control every aspect of an industry, from raw materials to sales outlets.
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Jay Gould, the railroad magnate, set out in 1886 ti set a trap for and destroy:
The Knights of Labor.
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The elaborate organization of the big city political machines was aimed at:
Turning out the vote on election day.
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In U.S. v. Harris (1882), the supreme court held that:
Federal laws punish crimes such as murder assault were unconstitutional.
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The philosophy of social Darwinism appealed to American businessmen because it justified their belief that:
Their business tactics were legitimate.
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With the change from sailing ships to steamships in the late nineteenth century, immigration increased for all of the following reasons except:
Epidemics do not break out on steel ships.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan is best remembered for writing:
The influence of seapower upon history.
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All of the following were factors which pushed Europeans to immigrate to America except:
Loss of voting rights among the peasants.
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Railroads contributed to the economic growth of the U.S. in all of the following ways except:
By encouraging widespread ownership of the transportation industries.
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Frederick Jackson Turner is best remembered for writing:
The significance of the frontier in American history.
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The railroad strike of 1877 indicated that:
Business was becoming national rather than local in scope.
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Immigration restriction passed prior to 1924 were not very successful because:
The restriction were too vague to enforce consistently.
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The knights of labor was:
By definition open to anyone who “toiled,” with a handful of exceptions.
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In its efforts to help workers, the American federation of labor sought:
Short-term gains such as pay increases, the eight-hour day, and improved working conditions.
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The Haymarket square riot of 1886 was:
An indication to the public that society and labor were riddled with radicals.
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The grange virtually disappeared after 1884 because:
It lacked an effective central organization.
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The outcome of the Pullman strike of 1894 indicated that the federal government:
Would intervene on the side of management rather than labor.
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Governor General Weyler came to be known was “butcher Weyler” in the U.S. as a result of:
The use of “Reconcentrado” camps.
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Pools and cartels tented to fail because:
They were voluntary agreements and therefor non-binding.
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The Omaha platform of the populist included all of the following except:
Federal subsidies for local banks.
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The Pullman strike was broken when scabs were ordered to:
Hook the U.S. mail cars to Pullman coaches.
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In the 1870s efforts by the labor unions to gain bargaining powers were unsuccessful primarily because:
Many Americans feared the tactics of the unions and considered them too radical.
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The settlement of the homestead strike of 1892 was significant because it
Crippled the power of the steel workers to unionize.
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The anti-imperialists opposed U.S. acquisition of an empire for all of the following reasons Except:
The vast majority of Americans opposed such empire-building.
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The urban political machine had all of the following goals except:
Keeping the Irish Catholics from gaining control of city government.
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One of the primary beliefs of the farmers’ alliance was that:
Too much power was in the hands of a few corporations and financial institutions.
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The new York county courthouse was seen as boss William tweed’s masterpiece because:
It would up costing 52 times as much as estimated.
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In general, the populist movement was primarily supported by:
Small farmers.
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By the end of the 1800s the use of cartels, trusts, and holding companies by big business resulted in:
A concentration of economic power in the hands of a few.
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Member of the “old immigration” were likely to come from any of the following except:
Italy.
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When the south sent a number of former confederate civil and military official to Washington D.C. as congressmen following the war, northern congressmen:
Refused to seat them.
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In Williams v. Mississippi (1898), the court in effect found that:
Black voters could be disenfranchised through literacy tests.
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Holding companies are from of consolidation which :
A central corporation body formally purchases the stocks of various corporations.
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Commodore George Dewey became the leading American hero of the Spanish-American war as a result of:
His victory at Manilia Bay.
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The leader of the American railroad union was:
Eugene V. Debs.
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Most immigrants to the U.S. settled in the northeast, mainly because:
That was where the industrial jobs they wanted were located.
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The leader of the southern farmer’s alliance was:
Charles W. Macune.
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