20th Century US History Final MC

The US became an industrial and economic giant in the late 19th century. What was America's first big business:

Transatlantic shipping

Interstate cartage companies

The railroad systems that crossed the country

The manufacture and distribution of "spirituous" liquors

A farm distress in the late 19th century was mainly caused by:

Lower prices for commodities

Indifferent legislators

Reductions in agricultural subsidies

The boll weevil

Famers sought relief through:

Increased political activism

Farm organizations

Silver inflation

All of the above

Industrial laborers:

Occasionally conducted bitter strikes

Worked hard and often achieved middle class status

Sought more workers from Europe

Pioneered innovative industrial strategies

African Americans in the South were subject to Jim Crow laws. What were they:

Laws demanding separation of races in public facilities

Laws which enforced attendance at minstrel shows

Laws which encouraged African American higher education

Laws that rejected white supremacy

The Populist Party stood for all of the following EXCEPT ONE:

Free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1

Maintainence of the gold dollar

Direct election of US senators

Sub-treasury system to provide credit

Muckrakers:

Accentuated lurid sexual and violent stories in popular magazines

Were deeply appreciated by American industrialists

Accentuated the warm class unity of America

Drew attention to challenging social, economic, and political issues

The 1896 election between Bryan and McKinley was pivotal because:

The parties had such sharply contrasting ideas on the future of America

The two candidates stayed home

Both parties were indifferent to the plight of farmers

Both parties upheld and extended the gold standard

Jane Hull pointed out challenging situations among immigrants and the working poor in this city:

Toledo

Chicago

Detroit

Des Moines

Trusts, or business monopolies posed major problems to American social and political values. Which one was the most serious?

Large accumulations of money allowed them extensive influence over gov't

The economies of scale they practiced ruined the economy

The tycoons created by this system were sometimes ruthless and heedless of business ethics

They took over too much urban space

State reformers pressed for the following EXCEPT ONE:

Direct primaries

Tariff and trust reform

More liquor stores

A social safety net for the poor and the weak

The "Galveston Plan":

Reworked city governance in the wake of a terrible tsunami

Assembled capital and public support for an NFL team

Urged the re-working of banking regulations

Planned greater recreation facilities for urban workers and children

Theodore Roosevelt was ALL EXCEPT ONE:

Was born to wealth

Embraced "the strenuous life"

Was beloved by Republican old line politicians like Mark Hanna

Won attention and respect for his Spanish-American war feats

When Roosevelt embraced the "stewardship" theory of office, he means:

The president should represent the needs and will of all the people

The president should only do the bidding of congress

The president should be a passive and receptive chief executive

The president should unilaterally end high tariffs

The Wisconsin Idea was pioneered by:

Marcus A. Hanna

Robert LaFollette

Albert Cummins

Charles Evans Hughes

The Supreme Court of the latter 19th and 20th centuries:

Was a very conservative institution when it came to cases involving private property

Accepted the legitimacy of white supremacy

Upheld Roosevelt's tough stance in trustbusting

All of the above

The rise of gov't regulation included all of the following EXCEPT:

Creating boards and commissions to oversee the private sector

Concerned itself with the purity of food and pharmaceuticals

Never concerned itself with the internal workings of corporations

Included an enhanced Interstate Commerce Commission

William Howard Taft did all of the following EXCEPT:

Signed the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910

Prosecuted Standard Oil in anti-trust actions

Refused to break away from the golf course to attend to gov't business

Defeated Roosevelt for the Republican Party nomination in 1912

Woodrow WIlson:

Segregated the federal gov't

Relied on the advice of Louis Brandeis and his New Freedom

Reluctantly embraced women's suffrages

All of the above

Wilsonian accomplishments included all EXCEPT:

The Federal Reserve

The Federal Trade Commission

Negotiating peace between Russian and Japan

Resisted literacy tests

20th Century US History Final MC

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