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The prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals?
Bringing full equality to blacks
Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s bill to create a bipartisan federal election board fail to pass in the Senate in 1890?
Northern liberals were afraid that it provided for too much democracy
During the mid-1890s, many middle-class and prosperous Americans reformers neglected
women's suffrage
Between 1910 and 1917, all the industrial states enacted laws that
provided insurance for on-the-job accidents
Which of the following contributed to America expanding its markets into Latin America and Asia in the 1890s?
The wide-reaching impact of the Panic of 1893
Why were the presidents in office during the period from 1877 to 1895 generally undistinguished and ineffectual?
Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands.
Who stepped in to aid the federal government when the U.S. Treasury’s gold supplies dwindled badly in 1895?
J. P. Morgan and a syndicate of bankers
What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he stated, “You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold” in his famous 1896 speech?
The United States should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry
Organized in 1905, the Niagara Movement embraced
equal opportunity for African Americans
What did the Venezuelan and Cuban crises of the 1890s have in common?
They were both US foreign policy challenges to European nations
The national political stalemate of the 1880s and early 1890s originated in part because of
the incredible population growth resulting from immigration.
Which of the following was a reason for fanning the fire of racial prejudice in the South?
To prevent a Populist coalition between poor whites and African Americans
Why was McKinley’s campaign in the 1896 presidential election superior to Bryan’s?
McKinley raised and spent a great deal of money donated by corporations
Which of the following was promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette (1901–1905) as the Wisconsin Idea?
Greater government intervention in the economy
Which of the following statements describes Hawaii in the 1890s?
American sugar planters overthrew Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani and applied for U.S. annexation
Which of the following was the first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Which of the following was a result of the laws passed to disenfranchise blacks across the South in the 1890s and early 1900s?
Segregation laws barring blacks from public and private places such as hotels, parks, and public drinking fountains were passed.
To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to
nationalize the coal companies
In the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World were committed to achieving
A new society run by and for workers
The American victory at San Juan Hill in Cuba can be credited mostly to
4 African American US regiments that bore the brunt of the fighting
Which president advocated measures to protect black voting rights in the South after the end of Reconstruction?
Benjamin Harris
Advocates of free silver believed it would
encourage borrowing and stimulate industry
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1911 Standard Oil case?
The monopoly was broken up into several competing companies
What prevented Theodore Roosevelt from achieving the Republican presidential nomination in 1912?
Taft controlled the party caucuses, whose leaders chose the candidate at the national convention
Which of the following describes the guerrilla war that followed the conquest of the Philippines?
The conflict far exceeded in ferocity the war just concluded with Spain