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An #history #Quiz on late nineteenth century America.
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1
What series of books contributed to the great American Dream?
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Horatio Alger
Alger Hiss
2
Rutherford B. Hayes wife was called "Lemonade Lucy" because she championed which cause?
Importation of citrus fruits
Women's right to vote
Temperance/Abstinence
Fresh Water and clean living
3
Factional quarrels split both parties. What were the two Republican groups called?
urbanites and Vermonters
Conklingites and Tammany Hall
Mugwumps and Red Flaggers
"Stalwarts" and "Half breeds"
4
Civil Service Reform was important to which of these politicians?
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew jackson
Abe Lincoln
5
What Strike in 1877 resulted from a lowering of wages and an increase in amount of work?
The 1877 Auto dealers Strike
The Railroad Strike of 1877
The Shirtwaist Factory Strike
The Longshoreman's Strike of '77
6
Amusements Parks such as Coney Island and Seabreeze were a sign of what change in urban life?
A growing number of people liked stupid things
Boxing was losing its hold over the entertainment dollar
A growing number of people had at least some leisure time
People with no class began to have money
7
What nationality, of those listed below, was banned from immigrating to the US in 1882?
Chinese
Irish
Japanese
Mexicans
8
Who actually is President of the United States right now, as far as we factually know?
All of the above
Joe Biden
Some collection of people behind the scenes
Nobody Really knows
9
Which Union Activity was successful due to mediation by President Teddy Roosevelt?
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Haymarket Affair
Coal Miner's Strike of 1905
10
What type of entertainment from the late nineteenth century involved a variety show of acts?
Hip Hop Broadway Musicals
Operetta
Vaudeville
Minstrel Shows
11
Who, according to leaked information, has recently written a decision that is yet to be announced, in the SCOTUS?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Amy Coney Barrett
Joseph Alito
Justice Kavanaugh
12
Which of the following groups was founded in 1867 to help farmers feel less isolated?
The national Shriners of Farming
The Rotary Club
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
Farmers' Alliances
13
All but one of the following made Americans believe that poverty was the fault of the poor.
Social Darwinism
Phrenology
The Communist Manifesto
The Horatio Alger Stories
14
People who lived in the West felt alienated because
The West was overcrowded and too much socializing occurred
They were naturally inferior to Easterners
They were losing financial power every year, it seemed.
The crops they grew were failing every year
15
What was the nation's first professional baseball team?
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Baltimore Orioles
New York Highlanders
Boston Pilgrims
16
Who wrote the book, with famous pictures, called "How the Other Half Lives"?
Stephen Crane
Jacob Riis
Wallace Stevens
Frederick Jackson Turner
17
Who proposed a new theory of Democracy in America, known as the Frontier Thesis, in 1893?
Daniel Webster
Andrew Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson
Frederick Jackson Turner
18
Which of the following is true of Rutherford B. Hayes?
He strongly opposed civil service reform.
He was a highly successful President
He won the election without a mandate and had a weak term.
Despite winning his election convincingly, he had no support
19
The cartoon on the right concerns bi-metallism. What is the message
The bicycle is better than horses
America should go off the gold standard.
Bi-Metalism will lead to instability and is bad
Bimetallism is the answer to our prayers
20
Which union or labor event led to the demise of the Knights of Labor when a bomb killed police?
Pullman Strike
Haymarket Affair
Coal Miner's Strike of 1905
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
21
What party promoted the first female attorney general and the first female member of the supreme court, & who were they.
Libertarian Party Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Democrats, Madelein Albright and Ruth Bader Ginsberg
National Women's Party,, Josephine Baker and Barret Kagan
Republicans, Janet Reno and Sandra Day O'Connor
22
Mann versus Illinois and the Wabash Case have what thing in common?
Both were about limiting govt. power to regulate business.
They both involved the Railroad Industry
Both were attacks on the weak presidency of Hayes
They both believed in limiting the power of steel companies
23
Yellow Journalism was ...
a sensationalist form of newspapers
Actually, all of these are right in a way.
A result of mass marketing of news
Fake News of the 1890s