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pp 121-161,  CHAPTER THREE IN WHO BUILT AMERICA -- Quiz, Monday, Feb 28.

On Monday, February 28th, there will be a timed quiz on ten of the following questions.  Make sure you can answer all the questions. 

1.  Coxey’s Army:

A) Put down the striking Pullman workers.  B) Marched to Washington to demand federal relief for unemployed workers.  C) Avenged the sinking of the Maine in the Spanish American War.  D) Launched a successful attack against Manila Bay (Philippines) in 1898.

2. Which of the following was NOT a factor in the defeat of the Pullman strike.

A) The intervention of federal troops.  B) The intervention of state militia.  C) A sweeping federal court injunction outlawing the strike.  D) The total exclusion of low-skilled and unskilled workers from the American Railway Union (ARU).

3. The ARU was:

A) An industrial union (skilled and unskilled).  B) A craft union (organized by skill).  C) A company union (organized by Pullman management).   D) A political party for railroad workers.

4. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, the Farmers Alliance and Populist Party successfully ran candidates who won:

A) Control of some state legislatures.  B) Governorships.  C) U.S. Congressional seats.  D) All the above.  E) None of the above. 

5. The platform of the 1892 Populist Party did NOT include:

A) Nationalization (government ownership) of railroads and telegraph.  B) Nationalization of most farms.  C) A sub-treasury plan.  D) A graduated income tax.  E) Direct election of U.S. senators.

6. In one of the most important and famous speeches in U.S. history, a candidate for office exclaimed “you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold.”  Who spoke these words?

A) William McKinley.  B) Henry Demarest Lloyd.  C) J.P. Morgan.   D) Grover Cleveland.  E) William Jennings Bryan.

7. By 1900, the South was overwhelmingly under the control of which party?

A) Republican.  B) Democratic.  C) Populist.  D) Farmers Alliance. 

8. Ida B. Wells-Barnet:

A) Led an anti-lynching movement.  B) Advised African-Americans to accommodate to white power.  C) Founded the Tuskegee Institute for Industrial Education.  D) Wrote Souls of Black Folk and advocated integration.

9. Which group was NOT typically part of the wave of new immigrants in the late 19^th century?

A) Jews.  B) Catholics.  C) Eastern Europeans.  D) Italians.  E) English.

10.  Emilio Aguinaldo led the guerilla movement for Philippine independence at the turn of the century.  Which of the following statements about Aguinaldo is true?

A) Commodore George Dewey transported the exiled Aguinaldo to the Philippines as a U.S. ally in the war against colonial Spain.  B) The U.S. refused to recognize the independent republic Aguinaldo declared in June 1898.  C) Aguinaldo mounted a guerilla war against U.S. occupation of the Philippines.  D) All the above.  E) None of the above.

11. Who was NOT an advocate of imperialist expansion?

A) Industrialist and presidential adviser, Mark Hanna.  B) Steel tycoon, Andrew Carnegie.  C) Senator Albert Beveridge.  D) President Theodore Roosevelt.  E) Planter and businessman, Sanford Dole.

12.  Between 1900-1920, where did the U.S. militarily intervene to protect U.S. economic interests? 

A) Nicaragua.  B) Haiti.  C) Cuba.  D) Dominican Republic.  E) All the above.

13.  The Anti-Imperialist league consistently opposed U.S. imperialism as racist and as a threat to multi-cultural diversity in the U.S.

A) True.  B) False.

14. The U.S. strategy for expanding markets and investments in China was:

A) Colonial rule.  B) Military Occupation.  C) The Open Door Policy.  D) The Platt Amendment.  E) The Roosevelt Corollary.

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