20 MCQ's

1) By the mid-1880s, the major issue or goal for organized labor was 
A) securing legal recognition of unions.
B) limiting competition for jobs by limiting immigration.
C) making the eight-hour day the standard throughout all industries.
D) forcing industrialists to accept collective bargaining.

2) On May 1, 1886, thousands of workers across Chicago went on a one-day strike
A) in support of a strike by the National Railroad Workers Union.
B) demanding an end to industrialists’ use of hired detectives.
C) for higher wages.
D) to show support for the eight-hour workday movement.

3) The last major violent encounter between Plains Indians and U.S. Cavalry forces occurred at
A) Big Sandy, Wyoming.
B) Apple Creek, Colorado.
C) Palo Duro Canyon, Texas.
D) Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

4) In the case of Tape v. Hurley, the court ruled that the 
A) Chinese Exclusion Act was unconstitutional.
B) California capitation tax levied exclusively on Chinese was illegal.
C) San Francisco School Board could not bar the admission of Chinese pupils.
D) government was not obligated to extend citizenship to Chinese and other Asians.

1) In the case of Tape v. Hurley, the court ruled that the 
A) Chinese Exclusion Act was unconstitutional.
B) California capitation tax levied exclusively on Chinese was illegal.
C) San Francisco School Board could not bar the admission of Chinese pupils.
D) government was not obligated to extend citizenship to Chinese and other Asians.

2) In using the term “New South,” Henry Grady meant
A) Reconstruction had achieved its goal.
B) the plot planter elite no longer dominated the South.
C) the former Confederate states were now forward looking and embraced industrialization.
D) Democrats had reclaimed control of the South.

3) The center of pig iron production in the South was 
A) Richmond, Virginia.
B) Birmingham, Alabama.
C) Tallahassee, Florida.
D) Atlanta, Georgia.

4) “Jim Crow” was a term referring to 
A) sharecropping.
B) lynching young black men.
C) a Klan leader.
D) legalized racial segregation.

1) Regiments of black soldiers assigned to duty in the West became known as
A) Lincoln’s Brigade.
B) Freedmen Fighters.
C) Buffalo soldiers.
D) Exodusters.

2) In the 1870s, 20,000 blacks from northern states settled in 
A) Kansas.
B) New Mexico.
C) Wyoming.
D) Idaho.

3) The Ghost Dance was intended by Wovoka a Nevada Paiute to:
A) bring in peace for the Indians
B) provide a mystical vision of the future
C) based on solar eclipse and fever healed and no fear of death
D) all the above

4) The Indian leader __________ represented traditional values and dignity in the face of adversity and white dominance.
A) Chief Joseph
B) Sitting Bull
C) Geronimo
D) Crazy Horse

1) The last major violent encounter between Plains Indians and U.S. Cavalry forces occurred at
A) Big Sandy, Wyoming.
B) Apple Creek, Colorado.
C) Palo Duro Canyon, Texas.
D) Wounded Knee, South Dakota.


2) In 1878, the combined effects of economic depression and the loss of grain jobs led to
A) skyrocketing prices for food.
B) a rash of “machine breaking” across the Midwest.
C) the collapse of the commodities market.
D) business failures in the Midwest.

3) The populist movement was primarily composed of 
A) rural small farmers, sharecroppers, and wage hands.
B) industrial workers in the urban areas.
C) women and minorities.
D) union members.

4) Due to the effects of drought and declining wheat prices in the late 1880s, Kansas and Nebraska lost __________ of their population.
A) one-third
B) one-half
C) one-quarter
D) two-thirds

1) An organizer for the Knights of Labor and an early advocate for women’s labor organization was
A) Lucretia Mott.
B) Edward O’Donnell.
C) Leonora Barry.
D) L. Frank Baum.

2) Industrial owners infiltrated and broke up labor organizations by employing private security forces such as the
A) Pinkerton detectives.
B) Texas Rangers.
C) Molly Maguires.
D) White Caps.

3) The author of Progress and Poverty and advocate of a single tax on property was
A) Henry George.
B) Samuel Clemens.
C) Jacob Riis.
D) XXXXX XXXXX.

4) In the book Looking Backward, __________ envisioned a society in which poverty and greed had disappeared. 
A) L. Frank Baum
B) XXXXX XXXXXamy
C) Henry George
D) Jacob Riis