Assignment: History 2020: Study Guide for 1877 to 1900
1. Characterize American interest in politics in the late nineteenth century.
2. What were Thomas Nast's symbols for America's major political parties? Elephant and Donkey
3. What did the Democrats trade for the Whitehouse in the Compromise of 1877?
4. What was the issue that divided the Stalwarts and Half-Breeds?
5. What was Charles Guiteau's motive in the assassination of Garfield?
6. How did President Chester A. Arthur surprise his detractors?
7. In what ways was the presidential election of 1884 particularly ugly?
8. In what ways did the Transcontinental Railroad transform America?
9. How powerful were the railroad barons?
10. Analyze the business practices of the Robber Barons.
11. What were the Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism?
12. What two railroad companies built the Transcontinental Railroad?
13. What happened at Promontory Point in 1869?
14. What were the goals and how effective were the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?
15. What were the findings of Wabash v. Illinois, 1886 and United States v. Knight, 1895?
16. What effect did Horatio Alger have on America?
17. What was the impact of the Sears and Roebuck Catalog of American consumers?
18. How did the typewriter and telephone affect women?
19. What inventions did Thomas Edison give America and the world?
20. What did Turner's Frontier Thesis say about American history?
21. What did the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868 determine?
22. What was General Sheridan's infamous quote about the Native Americans?
23. What was the US Army's policy toward the Native Americans?
24. Describe the following battles in the Indian War: The Sand Creek Massacre, The Fetterman Massacre, The Battle of the Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee.
25. How did the US government deal with Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians?
26. What did Helen Hunt Jackson and Sarah Winnemucca write about?
27. What was the Dawes Act of 1887?
28. What was the impact of the miners' bonanza, cattleman's bonanza, and the farmers' bonanza on the west?
29. What was the message in Edward Bellamy's novel, Looking Backward.
30. Why was Utah so late in becoming recognized as a state?
31. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
32. Describe the reasons for the rise of cities in late nineteenth-century America.
33. What were the diversions of the late nineteenth century?
34. What were the Comstock Laws?
35. What was the contribution of Ida B. Wells?
36. What were Jim Crow Laws?
37. What was determined in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896?
38. What was the WCTU and who was Frances Willard?
39. Define the term "Cult of Domesticity."
40. Why were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony important?
41. What did the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus's poem, The New Colossus, symbolize?
42. What was the objective of the APA?
43. New immigration in the late nineteenth century came from what regions?
44. Describe industrial working conditions in late nineteenth-century America.
45. Define the following: strike, lock out, yellow dog contract, blacklist, and collective bargaining.
46. What was the weakness of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor?
47. How did Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor strengthen the labor union?
48. Describe the outcomes of the following labor incidents: The Haymarket Affair, 1886; The Homestead Lockout, 1892; The Pullman Strike, 1893-954
49. Who was John Peter Altgeld?
50. Who was Eugene V. Debs?
51. Describe farmer's problems in the late nineteenth century.
52. What was the Grange (aka Patrons of Husbandry)?
53. Define Populism.
54. Who was Mary Elizabeth Lease?
55. Who was Thomas B. Reed?
56. What was the first for the Fifty-First Congress?
57. How popular was the McKinley Tariff of 1890?
58. Who was James B. Weaver?
59. What was the Ohio Platform?
60. What economic problem hit just as Grover Cleveland started his second term?
61. What was the agenda of the Populist Party?
62. Why did Cleveland have secret surgery?
63. What was Cleveland's stance on the gold standard?
64. What did J. P. Morgan loan the US Treasury?
65. What was Coxey's Army?
66. How did the Wilson-Gorman Tariff affect tariff rates?
67. Why was Senator Mark Hannah of Ohio so powerful?
68. Describe the rise of William Jennings Bryan.
69. Compare and contrast the presidential campaigns of Bryan and McKinley in 1896.
70. How did the Dingley Tariff affect tariff rates?
71. To what degree did Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz tell the story of the Populists?
72. How did Josiah Strong's, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis influence American imperialism?
73. How did Alfred Thayer Mahan influence American imperialism?
74. Describe the American annexation of Hawaii.
75. The United States considered going to war with Britain over what South American country?
76. What role did Hearst and Pulitzer play in the Yellow Press?
77. Who was Frederick Remington?
78. Who was John Hay?
79. Describe the events that led to the Spanish-American War.
80. What was the Teller Amendment?
81. What was Theodore Roosevelt's role in the Spanish-American War?
82. What was America's attitude toward the Spanish-American War?
83. Explain the impact of the following battles in the Spanish-American War: Manila Bay, San Juan Hill, and Santiago.
84. What did the United States get in the Treaty of Paris, 1898?
85. What base did the US lease from Cuba?
86. What were the Insular Cases?
87. What was the Platt Amendment?
88. What was the Anti-Imperialist League and who were some of its prominent members?
89. Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
90. Describe the Philippine Insurrection.
91. What roles did Arthur MacArthur and William Howard Taft play in the Philippines?
92. What was Hay's Open Door Policy?
93. What was the Boxer Rebellion?
94. Describe the US acquisition of the Panama Canal.
95. What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
96. How did Theodore Roosevelt win the Nobel Peace Prize?
97. What was the Gentlemen's Agreement?
98. What was the Root-Takahira Agreement?
99. What was the Great White Fleet?
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