The key concepts in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward were     
 pacifism and anti-imperialism.    
 * community and cooperation.    
 industrial power and overseas colonies.    
 social gospel and free silver.    
    

Taking the key concepts of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, Katherine  Tingley was able to    
 unite the two largest woman suffrage organizations.    
 organize a populist movement that culminated with a march on Washington, D.C.    
 * found a colony at Point Loma, California, that lasted to the 1850s.    
 obtain support for passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883.    
    

The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to     
 regulate the trade unions.    
 control interstate criminal activity.    
 * regulate the railroads.    
 break up the monopolistic trusts.    
    

In general, the presidents of the last quarter of the nineteenth century     
 * willingly yielded power to Congress and the states.    
 used their office to enrich themselves.    
 increased the power of the presidency and controlled congress.    
 were very charismatic individuals.    
    

In the late nineteenth century, Democrats generally sought to do each of the  following except:    
 * increase the influence of the federal government    
 gather support from newly naturalized immigrants in the North    
 protect states' rights    
 slash expenditures    
    

In the late nineteenth century, federal jobs     
 were severely limited in number.    
 went only to those who scored well on the Civil Service Exam.    
 * changed hands each time there was a change in administration.    
 usually went to graduates of the better schools and universities.    
    

Passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883 indicated     
 the success of a bipartisan effort to lower tariffs.    
 Congress's desire to control big business.    
 * that both parties recognized a need to professionalize government service.    
 congressional concern over the chaos in the railroad industry.    
    

Discontented farmers aimed their harshest criticism against     
 * railroads.    
 legislators.    
 lawyers.    
 the courts.    
    

This group would remain a center of rural and small-town community life even  when its political agenda failed:    
 WCTU    
 Knights of Labor    
 * Grange    
 Farmers' Alliance    
    

The largest women's organization in the world in the late nineteenth century  was the    
 Patrons of Husbandry.    
 National Women's Alliance.    
 Woman's League for Equal Rights.    
 * Woman's Christian Temperance Union.    
    

Supporters of the new People's Party founded in 1890 called themselves     
 * Populists.    
 Partisans.    
 Socialists.    
 Anarchists.    
    

All of the following proposals were included in the People's Party platform  except:    
 government ownership of railroads    
 restriction of immigration    
 a graduated income tax    
 * women's suffrage    
    

Which one of the following has the LEAST relationship to the other three?     
 National Guard    
 Great Uprising of 1877    
 Law and Order Leagues    
 * Naval War College    
    

________ presided over the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).     
 * Mary Lease    
 Frances Willard    
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton    
 Katherine Tingley    
    

The town of Pullman, Illinois, was an example of     
 * a company town.    
 a socialist commune.    
 how the Democratic system protected the working class.    
 the typical American small town.    
    

Eugene V. Debs was a     
 communist.    
 fascist.    
 * socialist.    
 Democrat.    
    

The march of Jacob Coxey's army on Washington, D.C., was an attempt to force  the federal government to respond to    
 * the 1893 depression.    
 spoils and corruption.    
 railroad rates.    
 controlling drinking.    
    

The social gospel movement was largely guided by     
 Catholic priests.    
 Baptist ministers.    
 * women.    
 party bosses.    
    

The social gospel movement was a/an     
 * attempt to apply Christian ideals to social ills.    
 means to unite various populist groups.    
 union movement based on Catholic traditions.    
 outgrowth of the WCTU.    
    

The enactment of a "soft" currency policy would     
 make it difficult to borrow money.    
 * make it easier to borrow money.    
 decrease the money in circulation.    
 commit the country to a gold standard.    
    

During the second Cleveland administration, the congressional political  debate centered on these two issues:    
 civil service reform and tax policy    
 the national debt and union control    
 * currency and tariff policies    
 farm subsidies and railroad regulation    
    

Those who advocated soft currency and silver coinage were actually calling  for    
 reducing the amount of silver in circulation.    
 higher interest rates.    
 * expansion of money in circulation.    
 increasing overseas markets.    
    

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech advocated     
 * the free silver issue.    
 progressive income taxes.    
 a gold standard.    
 a national bank.    
    

Jim Crow laws were designed to foster     
 * segregation.    
 integration.    
 the limitation of immigration.    
 the elimination of crows.    
    

Once in office, McKinley     
 * supported business and expansionist interests.    
 promoted regulation of business.    
 enacted moderate versions of populist reforms.    
 encouraged the continued formation of unions.    
    

All of the following were used to prevent blacks from voting except:     
 literacy tests.    
 property qualifications.    
 * proof of citizenship.    
 grandfather clauses.    
    

In Plessy v. Ferguson and Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, the  Supreme Court upheld legislation that    
 required the integration of public schools.    
 denied illegal immigrants the right to attend public schools.    
 * formally segregated facilities-including schools.    
 allowed poll taxes and literacy requirements for voting.    
    

The research of Ida B. Wells on lynching illustrated that it was     
 * a brutal device to eliminate African-American business competitors.    
 not as prevalent as it seemed.    
 a response to a higher incidence of rape.    
 most often resorted to when African Americans defied voting restrictions.    
    

The World's Fair of 1893 very clearly emphasized the principle     
 * of white supremacy.    
 that all nations have beautiful women.    
 of racial equality.    
 that agrarian societies were inherently superior.    
    

The "White Man's Burden" was considered to be which one of the following?     
 The rich were responsible for feeding the poor.    
 * The benefits of western civilization should be brought to the non-white parts  of the world.   
 The industrial giants were responsible for the working class.    
 White Americans should look after black Americans.    
    

Josiah Strong established a particular type of defense of imperialism when  he indicated that commerce follows the    
 traveler.    
 navy.    
 * missionary.    
 reporter.    
    

Frederick Jackson Turner wrote a famous essay titled     
 "The White Man's Burden."    
 "Looking Backward."    
 * "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."    
 "If Christ Came to Chicago."    
    

The United States purchased Alaska from     
 Great Britain.    
 France.    
 Germany.    
 * Russia.    
    

William Henry Seward helped negotiate the purchase of     
 the Philippines.    
 * Alaska.    
 Hawai'i.    
 Cuba.    
    

Hawaii was annexed after the overthrow of     
 Queen Mab.    
 King Oahu.    
 King Kalakaua.    
 * Queen Liliuokalani.    
    

Hawaii was annexed     
 to protect American missionaries from cannibalism.    
 * for purely imperialistic reasons.    
 to rid the island of the oppressive regime of King Kalakaua.    
 to bring land reform to the Hawaiian peasants.    
    

All of the following are true of the Spanish-American War except:     
 * More men were killed in combat than died of disease.    
 It was short in duration.    
 It claimed relatively few lives.    
 The cost was fairly inexpensive.    
    

In the Platt Amendment on Cuba, the United States     
 * called for the right to intervene to protect its interests.    
 denied any intent of annexing the island.    
 allied with Cuban rebels against the Spanish imperialists.    
 declared Cuba independent from Spain.    
    

In terms of imperialism, which one of the following had the LEAST in common  with the others?    
 Mark Twain    
 William Jennings Bryan    
 Andrew Carnegie    
 * Josiah Strong    
    

Which statement about the Anti-Imperialist League is NOT true?     
 Most supported American expansion by means of free trade.    
 All strongly opposed the annexation of new territories.    
 Membership grew quickly and was wide-reaching.    
 * Most believed in political domination as a means of expansion.    
    

Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of THIS in  1867:    
 Hawaii    
 * Alaska    
 Puerto Rico    
 Guam    
    

Which one of the following did NOT occur in 1898?     
 Eugene Debs forms the Social Democratic Party.    
 Hawaii is annexed.    
 * The Open Door Policy is announced.     
 War is declared against Spain.    
    

1867, 1888, and 1889 are all years in which America experiences     
 * the formation of farmers' alliance groups.    
 both major and minor depressions.    
 violent strikes and violent counter measures.    
 Jim Crow laws upheld by the Supreme Court.    
    

In 1890, rival women's groups merge to form     
 an anti-lynching crusade.    
 * one suffrage association.    
 a temperance alliance.    
 an anti-imperialist league.    
    

Most strikes after the uprising of 1877 were concentrated in the     
 South and Southwest.    
 mining areas of the West.    
 * Midwest and Northeast.    
 Atlantic states.    
    

In the 1896 election, victor William McKinley carried the     
 rural and urban areas.     
 * industrial states.    
 South.    
 Great Plains states.    
    

By the turn of the century, the United States intervened in all of the  following areas EXCEPT:    
 the islands of the Caribbean as an American domain.    
 * western Europe.    
 the countries of Latin America.    
 Pacific islands along with Hawaii.    
    

Admiral Dewey easily destroyed the Spanish fleet in     
 * Manila Bay.    
 the Mediterranean.    
 Santiago Bay.    
 the Caribbean Sea.