APUSH Period 6 Review

Party formed in 1892 mainly farmers, favoring free silver and government control of railroads

Which of the following groups of people would most likely endorse social darwinism?

The person represented in this image most notably used this tactic to gain more market share.

Mail-order business owners who used railroad to ship their catalog & product to rural customers

Banker known for purchasing bankrupt businesses for a low price, then making them profitable

Of all of the answers, what was the most important effect of the transcontinental railroad?

Which of the following is an example of vertical integration?

Political machine that dominated the Democratic Party in NYC during late 1800’s; "Boss" Tweed

Populists were primarily made up of...

Which group of people would most definitely support the free coinage of silver?

African American leader who demanded an end to segregation and equal rights for all

Inventor of the telegraph and its code of communication

System where farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small % of the crops.

Court case validated segregation stating "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional

Prohibited any “contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise”; Ineffective at first

To cause a person or group to become part of a different society or culture is

Populist leader was a fiery public speaker on behalf of free silver and other farm issues

All of these would be examples Samuel Gompers' "bread and butter" approach to unionizing except

What was an actual consequence of the "separate, but equal" ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?

What best explains why organized strikes by unskilled workers failed?

What was not necessarily a part of the Populist party's platform?

After Garfield's death, Arthur introduced the Pendleton Act which

Group was the first effort to create national union but failed b/c Haymarket Square Riot

Nickname for rapidly growing areas near gold and silver mining discoveries; Often infamous

1848-49 event that led to the mass migration West; many became permanent Western settlers

Inventor of the telephone

Down in the south, blacks were

Populist residential candidate famous for the Cross of Gold speech

Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier was all but gone by the end of the era and

Railroad travel led to the need for __ to better track the position of the sun in distant areas

Promoted settlement by offering 160 acres of free land to anyone that farmed that land

More than 1000 patents; phonograph, 1st practical electric light bulb and motion picture camera

Term given to 1865-1896 by Mark Twain, indicating the wealth and the corruption of the era

Anti-immigrant sentiment with open favoritism toward native-born Americans is known as:

What was a direct result of the advent of the lightbulb?

Organization to unite farmers on their common interests including desire to limit railroad fees

What was the importance of the Munn vs Illinois ruling?

Monopolized the refining of oil; Owner of Standard Oil; Known for horizontal integration

Economic belief that the government should “let it be” or not pass any laws to interfere

Laws passed in many Southern states designed to disfranchise black voters & impose segregation

Overall, the presidents in the Gilded Age...

What act was intended to prevent monopolies (like the one in the picture) from occurring?

Private security agency used to enforce strikebreaking measures

This technique, pioneered by people like Pulitzer and Hearst, sensationalized news stories.

Carnegie cited this for the reason that he wanted to give his money back to the cities.

What was a main (seemingly predictable) reason on why W J Bryan lost the elections he ran for?

Founded the International Labor Union also a five-time Socialist Party Presidential Candidate.

A law that denied any additional Chinese laborers from entering the country

What was one of the "solutions to the Native American problem" that was actually implemented?

Settlement houses provided everything but...

What best explains why this is this period often dubbed as "The Gilded Age"?

Which of the following groups of people would most likely support the Chinese Exclusion Act?

When a company grants control over its operations, through stock ownership, to another company

This cartoon depicts political bosses, leaders of political machines, that did all except..

Former slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute as a school for African Americans

What effect did the Dawes Act have on the Native Americans?

Event where railroad workers struck over wage cuts the President sent in troops to end it