THIS IS A FAKE QUIZ – ZERO POINTS
1. Dailey, Foner, and Yawp, and the documentary series Plutocracy all mention that in the period under study, from the 1870s forward, the influence of party-based ‘political machines’ in American towns and cities increased. Which of the following activities was a political machine of this time least likely to engage in?
- A. Provide jobs and welfare to some members of communities that supported the machine.
- B. Physically fight for control of ballot boxes and ballot-counting during elections.
- C. Raise money from local businesses and interests by extortion or bribery (‘pay to play’).
- D. Support federally-enforced regulation of elections and campaign spending.
- E. Organize community festivals, celebrations, and parades.
- F. Hire the police and run a fire brigade.
2. Foner, Dailey, and Plutocracy all mention each of the events on the following list of some of the biggest and longest working-class strike actions in the United States from the 1870s to the 1890s. Which of these actions, if any, successfully forced management or governments (city, state or federal) to concede collective bargaining rights to trade unions, or to adopt enforcement of the eight-hour day?
- A. The Great Railway Strike of 1877, stretching from Missouri to Pennsylvania and other locations, centered on Pittsburgh.
- B. The ‘great upheaval’ of 1886: multiple strikes and general strikes in various locations, with the largest in Chicago, eventuating in the ‘Haymarket Affair’?
- C. The Homestead, Pennsylvania strike and factory occupation by the Amalgamated Association against the Carnegie Steel Company (chairman and co-partner: Henry Clay Frick) for several months in 1891-92.
- D. The 1894 strike organized by the American Railway Union among workers at the railway-car manufacturing plant in the company town of Pullman, Illinois, led by the charismatic Eugene V. Debs.
3. Rank the following three groups in terms of their support for the Grange and Populist movements of the late 19th century, from very ‘supportive’ to ‘indifferent’ to ‘hostile’:
- A. Bankers and industrialists in the Northeast.
- B. Farmers in the western Great Plains states.
- C. Unskilled industrial workers.
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Match the country (A-F) to the description (1-6) of U.S. government actions and policy in that country.
A. Panama, B. Philippines, C. Cuba, D. Puerto Rico, E. Hawaii, F. Haiti
- 1. The U.S. launched a military intervention in ____ in 1898. This was widely expected to help a revolt for independence from the Spanish empire. After defeat of Spain, U.S. suppressed the independence movement. Independence once the new state officially adopted U.S. conditions.
- 2. U.S. annexed ____ as non-state territory of the United States. This remains so today.
- 3. U.S. annexed ____ as a U.S. territory in 1898. This formerly independent kingdom became a state more than 50 years later, after it was settled by a majority of (white) Americans.
- 4. U.S. occupied ____ in 1898, with the support of the country’s movement for independence from Spain. A long and bloody counter-insurgency war to suppress the independence fighters followed. The island nation was organized officially as a colony of the United States until 1946.
- 5. The U.S. government recognized a 1902-1903 independence movement in _____, leading to its secession from Colombia.
- 6. The U.S. ordered Marines to land in ____ to guard French and American interests during a popular uprising in 1915. U.S. forces maintained an occupation force here until 1934, writing a constitution for this country and choosing its presidents.
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In his ‘Triumph of America’, first published in 1885 (and available in The American Yawp Reader for Chapter 18), steel magnate Andrew Carnegie attributed America’s success to certain institutions, ideologies, and common beliefs of the time. Which of the following did he include as positive?
- A. Socialism
- B. Superiority of the white race
- C. Christianity
- D. Public Education
- E. Feminism
- F. Cultural homogeneity
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