Chapter 17 Quiz

. Which of the following characteristics describe Anthony Comstock?

He saw cities as cesspools of vice and corruption.

He used entrapment to arrest purported vice offenders.

He believed that the evils found in cities attracted youth.

All of the above

. How did nineteenth-century society portray the differences between men and women?

It was up to men to join voluntary associations and lobby elected officials; women had no interest in politics.

Men were best suited for the public sphere of campaigns and voting and women for the private sphere of home and family.

Men were best served doing farm work, and women should help them.

Men were irrational creatures, but women were more sensible.

. Why did Luna Kellie join the Farmers' Alliance?

It meant she had to leave her farm less.

It broke down the isolation of rural life and gave the advantages of a farm cooperative.

It worked with her Democratic Party affiliation.

She wanted to become party of the "money power."

. Which of the following statements best describes the impact of the Catholic church on ethnic immigrant groups?

They were not accepted into Catholic parishes and became Protestant instead.

It allowed immigrants to mingle with Catholics from other nationalities.

It allowed them to fully avoid assimilation.

It helped them to preserve Old World traditions but also eased the transition into American life.

. Which of the following statements best describes nineteenth-century urban culture?

It supported a vigorous and varied night life.

Urban centers closely regulated plays for sexual content.

Consensual sexual behavior held a great deal of risk.

The "respectable classes" continued to wear restrictive garments.

. By 1915, the United States had the highest rate of what in the world?

Drinking

Gambling

Church attendance

Divorce

. Which of the following was an Anglo-Saxon idea according to Josiah Strong?

Temperance

Liberty

Racial equality

Catholicism

. Neurasthenia was a nineteenth-century medical term meaning

nervous breakdown.

excessive sexual passion in the male.

the removal of a woman's ovaries.

evidence of sexual passion in the female.

. Josiah Strong believed Catholicism threatened American values and culture because

millions of people were Catholic.

American Protestantism was excessively divisive.

a Catholic's primary allegiance was to tyranny, a message that was disseminated through a network of parochial schools.

the millions of Catholics in America formed their own political party, which would undermine the stability of the two traditional parties.

. How did Victorian doctors define homosexuality?

As a myth

As an acceptable "condition"

As a genetic predisposition

As a medical abnormality

. Which of the following was a reform demanded by Mugwumps?

Voters should have to pass tests in order to vote.

Running "campaigns of education."

A return to the spoils system.

Eliminating the secret ballot.

. Why did Greenbackers want to issue more currency?

To force the government to acquire more gold to back up the system

To force the government to create a new National Bank

To help creditors collect debts

To help those in debt pay off their debts easier

. What was the Civil Service Commission authorized to do?

Reinforce the power of the patronage machines

Reform the electoral college

Administer the spoils system

Administer competitive examinations for federal jobs

. The Grange aimed to eliminate the role of

railroads.

merchants and creditors.

Congress.

independent farmers.

. Which of the following was a reform advocated by the Populists?

A graduated income tax

A deflationary currency policy

Racial equality

Expanded railroad lines

. How did southern Populists try to gain power?

By demanding full racial equality

By rejecting the support of black sharecroppers

By downplaying racial differences

By upholding the value of racial differences

. Henry George's "producer's ideology" envisioned a world in which

people would not have to work.

wealthy landholders gave workers more rights.

working people owned their own farms and shops.

bankers allied with working people.

. How did Edward Bellamy think that industrial civilization could solve social problems?

By relying on cooperation

By asking big business to give back to the world

By relying on individualism

By returning to the simple virtues of Jeffersonian society

. What was Americans' response to the Women's Christian Temperance Union "crusade"?

They hardly changed their drinking habits.

Drinking declined.

Drinking habits remained the same, but saloons declined.

Party machines distanced themselves from saloons.

. Which of the following statements best describes American foreign policy during the Gilded Age?

Expansionism focused on expanding markets.

America established a comprehensive empire.

America became isolationist.

The American government limited the degree to which corporations could pursue expanding markets.

. What did proponents of the gold standard say that a shift to the silver or paper standard would lead to?

A more stable currency

Inflation and wild speculation

Inflation that would only benefit creditors

Ruinous deflation

. Which of the following statements best characterizes the Hayes administration?

It enforced federal and executive power.

It was laissez-faire.

It deferred to Congress on most matters.

It was reluctant to intervene in industrial disputes.

. The _______ was one of the first attempts to organize farmers into cooperatives.

Grange

People's Party

Progressive Party

Knights of Labor

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Map shows Population of Foreign Birth by Region, 18 80. 30 percent and over is in west of the Lakes, many areas in the west states, and places in the north border of Mexico. 20 to 29 percent was in many areas in the west and center states, and also on the east and far north east of Lake Ontario. 10 to 19 percent was in many areas in all states except those in the South East. 1 to 9 percent was in many areas across all states except those in South West. No foreign-born population, under 1 percent, or unsettled is in the states in South east America, in Indian territory and Dakota territory.

Map 17-2: Population of Foreign Birth by Region, 1880. The map indicates the validity of which of the following statements?

Immigrants never settled in the American South.

Industrialized regions lured more immigrants.

Chinese immigrants largely settled in the Northeast and West.

Immigrants benefitted from the Homestead Act.

. Urban centers crystallized Americans' ambivalence about social change.

True

False

. American men and women have historically always been devoted to sports and athletic activities; nineteenth-century crazes were part of this tradition.

True

False

. As immigration increased, nativist rhetoric grew more racist.

True

False

. Political participation increased in the late nineteenth century.

True

False

. Women shared in popular politics.

True

False

. Boss rule influenced politics in many American cities.

True

False

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