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 1898 massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina, was a white response to fears that African Americans would ally with the __________. A) Republican Party B) Populists C) AFL D) social gospel movement ANSWER Answer: B
As with Hawai’i and Cuba, American involvement in the Philippines was most beneficial to __________. A) labor unions B) African Americans C) sugar planters D) poor people on these islands ANSWER Answer: C
In general, progressives were __________. A) optimistic about citizens being able to improve social and economic conditions B) revolutionaries pressing for radical reforms C) applying the ideas of social Darwinism as reforms D) antipolitical, preferring to emphasize improvement of individual character ANSWER Answer: A
Which of these people would most likely have been among the “new” immigrants entering the United States in 1905? A) an Australian farmer B) a German scientist C) a young unskilled Asian female D) a single unskilled Italian male ANSWER Answer: D
Thomas L. Johnson was an example of a city leader-reformer who advocated __________. A) improving social welfare for city residents B) reforming immigration policy C) cleaning up slums and ghetto buildings D) the initiative, recall, and referendum ANSWER Answer: A