AP US Quiz 1870-1900 Part 2

Unlike the earlier immigrants, virtually all the new immigrants of the late nineteenth century:
1. settled in the South
2. settled in industrial cities
3. were skilled artisans or well-educated professionals
4. were very easily and quickly assimilated into the mainstream of American life
Three of the following categories of immigrants were prohibited from entering the united States by a general immigration law of 1882. Which is the exception?
1. convicts
2. idiots
3. illiterates
4. paupers
A significant factor in enabling cities to expand was the development of:
1. the electric trolley
2. improved sewage systems
3. arc lighting for city streets
4. the borough system of government
The principal purpose of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 was to promote:
1. adult literacy programs
2. free elementary education in rural areas
3. college education in agriculture and mechanics.
4. higher standards in secondary education and, especially, college-preparatory programs
Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, and Radcliffe are significant names in the field of higher education for:
1. women
2. blacks
3. the mentally retarded
4. the physically handicapped
Three of the following accurately describe or characterize city bosses in the late nineteenth century. Which is the exception?
1. They were typically of foreign birth or parentage
2. They depended for their power on the vote of the poor
3. They dispensed welfare and patronage to their supporters
4. They always held the most powerful elected positions in the government
Three of the following were new developments in retail marketing in late-nineteenth-century America. Which is the exception?
1. mail-order houses
2. department stores
3. installment buying
4. national chain stores
William Randolph Hearst was most significant to American history in the field of:
1. shipbuilding
2. architecture
3. banking and finance
4. newspaper publishing
In the 1880s, an important new development in magazine publishing was the introduction of:
1. the popular magazine designed for mass circulation
2. comic books
3. the literary journal catering to the reading tastes of the urban sophisticate
4. multicolor photographs
The abbreviation "GOP" stands for:
1. the Grand Old Party; that is, the Democratic party
2. an organization of veterans of the Union army
3. a federal agency created to protect the voting rights of blacks
4. the Grand Old Party; that is, the Republican party
In the late nineteenth century, which of the following groups would least likely vote Democratic?
1. Protestant farmers of the south
2. unskilled wage earners
3. Northern blacks
4. Roman catholics of immigrant origin
President James Garfield was assassinated by a deranged man who called himself:
1. a stalwart
2. an anarchist
3. a Democrat
4. a Half-Breed
Which of the following acts was passed as a direct result of the assassination of Garfield?
1. the Pendleton Act
2. the Dependent Pension Act
3. the Sherman Antitrust Act
4. the Mills Act
In the election of 1884, when Dr. Samuel Burchard spoke of the part of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion," he was referring to the:
1. populists
2. Democrats
3. stalwarts
4. Liberal Republicans
The expression "Crime of '73" refers to the:
1. fixing of the ratio between silver and gold at 16 to 1
2. discontinuance of silver coinage
3. inflation produced by the unlimited coinage of silver
4. adoption of a bimetallic standard
The most important issue in the 1896 presidential campaign was:
1. the money question
2. foreign policy
3. the tariff
4. the civil service
The significance of the "cross of gold" speech was that:
1. the populists refused to support William Jennings Bryan
2. Bryan won the 1896 Democratic presidential nomination
3. Congress was persuaded to adopt the Gold standard Act of 1900
4. it ended the "battle of the standards."
The significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of United States v. E. C. Knight was that
1. The Sherman Antitrust Act was strenghtened
2. The Sherman Antitrust Act was considerably weakened
3. Congress's exclusive power over interstate commerce was affirmed
4. private veterans' persions bills were declared unconstitutional
The so-called Granger Laws were designed to regulate:
1. the export of farm crops
2. railroad and warehouse rates
3. child labour
4. minimum wages and maximum hours
The Supreme Court decision in Munn v. Illinois was a victory for
1. organised labour
2. the Interstate Commerce commission
3. the Grangers
4. opponents of state regulation of industry