The Dawes Severalty Act incorporated many of the ideas of __________. A) Cyrus McCormick B) Charles Russell C) John Wesley Powell D) Helen Hunt Jackson ANSWER Answer: D
How did the Navajo and Hopi manage to adapt, survive, and even grow as a culture? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: federal Indian policy; adaptations; traditions; negotiation and mediation
Before writing The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie had made his fortune in __________. A) electric power generation B) railroads C) steel production D) banking ANSWER Answer: C
The “self-improvement” movement mainly affected the urban __________. A) working class B) upper class C) middle class D) new immigrants ANSWER Answer: C
By the end of the century, nearly 80 percent of African Americans in the North __________. A) lived in urban areas B) lived in rural areas C) were contemplating returning to the South D) were employed in industry ANSWER Answer: A
The largest women’s organization in the world in the late nineteenth century was __________. A) the National Women’s Alliance B) the Woman’s League for Equal Rights C) the National Organization for Women D) the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union ANSWER Answer: D
The annexation of the Philippines by the United States __________. A) assured Philippine independence B) ended the Philippine independence movement C) gave control of the government to Emilio Aguinaldo D) resulted in a four-year war of conquest by the Americans ANSWER Answer: D
Which of these could not join the Northern Farmers’ Alliance? A) Italian farmers B) German farmers C) Irish farmers D) black farmers ANSWER Answer: D
A major reason why progressive women like Jane Addams turned to settlement work was __________. A) dissatisfaction with the choices that society offered to women B) their belief that women are more compassionate than men C) because settlement work required less professional training D) out of boredom with their loveless marriages ANSWER Answer: A
When reformers investigated prostitution, they were distressed to learn that many girls __________. A) preferred prostitution to working in a factory B) were underage American farm women C) were from middle-class Protestant homes D) were married women who wanted more income ANSWER Answer: A