United States History HIST1302 Exam One

Question 1What did Andrew Johnson focus on with his Reconstruction plan?

Question 2 President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds EXCEPT the United States:

Question 3Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?

Question 4Which was NOT part of the Populist platform?

Question 5Industrial freedom in the Progressive era meant:

Question 6What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?

Question 7White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South:

Question 8Feminism:

Question 9Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?

Question 10After 1900, the campaign for women’s suffrage:

Question 11The Grange was an organization that:

Question 12By 1900, in both the North and South:

Question 13The crop-lien system:

Question 14What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?

Question 15The Plains Indians:

Question 16Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

Question 17By 1890, the majority of Americans:

Question 18The word “Progressivism” came into common use around 1910:

Question 19Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the “Wild West” as all of the following EXCEPT:

Question 20Black officeholders during Reconstruction:

Question 21Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?

Question 22The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

Question 23The Industrial Workers of the World:

Question 24How did American racial attitudes shape South African politics?

Question 25Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between the government and the economy in the Gilded Age?

Question 26What was the northern vision for the Reconstruction-era southern economy?

Question 27Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish-American War?

Question 28The severe depression of 1893:

Question 29What did the ex-slaves see as key to improving their condition?

Question 30The election of 1876:

Question 31How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

Question 32The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU):

Question 33Why did the South fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of Reconstruction?

Question 34Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers’ ideas on the political process?

Question 35Which of the following does NOT describe an effect of U.S. Chinese exclusion policies of the late nineteenth century?

Question 36The Platt Amendment:

Question 37Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?

Question 38The ascendancy of the American Federation of Labor during the 1890s reflected:

Question 39The Fourteenth Amendment:

Question 40When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?

Question 41The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

Question 42The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

Question 43William Jennings Bryan:

Question 44The second industrial revolution was marked by:

Question 45Why did the woman suffrage movement increasingly focus its attention on a national amendment to the Constitution?

Question 46Plessy v. Ferguson:

Question 47In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

Question 48Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

Question 49Why did millions of American farm families migrate westward from 1900 to 1910?

Question 50By 1912, the Socialist Party: