Test Review: American Pageant

Chapters 23-26

I. Multiple Choice (50 questions) (1 pt. each) (40 minutes): below is a vocabulary list of some of the
major terms and people that you should know or be familiar with. NOTE: These lists are not
exhaustive and will require that you study more than what is present here.

Chapter 23 Vocabulary
Ulysses S. Grant Bland-Allison Act Grover Cleveland
Thomas Nast G.A.R (Grand Army of the Republic) Benjamin Harrison
Horace Greely Stalwart Cheap Money
Roscoe Conkling Half-Breed Hard or Sound Money
James G. Blaine Compromise of 1877 Gilded Age
Rutherford B. Hayes Civil Service Reform Bloody-Shirt
Samuel Tilden Pendleton Act of 1833 Tweed Ring
James A. Garfield Thomas B. Reed Credit Mobilier Scandal
Chester A. Arthur “Billion Dollar” Congress Whiskey Ring
Charles J. Guiteau Pension Act Resumption Act
Grover Cleveland

Chapter 24 Vocabulary Chapter 25 Vocabulary Chapter 26 Vocabulary

Government Subsidies Florence Kelley Sitting Bull
Transcontinental Railroad Mary Baker Eddy George A. Custer
Cornelius Vanderbilt Charles Darwin Chief Joseph
Pullman “Palace Car” Booker T. Washington Geronimo
Jay Gould William James Joseph F. Glidden
Railroad corruption Henry George James B. Weaver
Interstate Commerce Commission Horatio Alger Oliver H. Kelly
Mesabi Range Mark Twain Mary Elizabeth Lease
Alexander Graham Bell Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sioux Wars
Thomas Alva Edison Carrie Chapman Catt Apache
Andrew Carnegie Nativism Ghost Dance
Vertical Integration Philanthropy Battle of Wounded Knee
Horizontal Integration Yellow Journalism Dawes Severalty Act
John D. Rockefeller Josiah Strong Comstock Lode
Trusts New Immigration Long Drive
J.P. Morgan “Social Gospel” Homestead Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act Settlement House Patrons of Husbandry
Gibson Girl Modernist Granger Laws
Yellow Dog Contracts Chautauqua Movement Farmers’ Alliance
Blacklists Women’s Christian Temperance Union Populists
Company Towns Eighteenth Amendment Jacob S. Coxey
Haymarket Square incident Eugene V. Debs
A.F.L. (American Federation of Labor) Williams Jennings Bryan
Richard Olney
William McKinley
Bimetallism
Free Silver
Depression of 1893
Pullman Strike
Cross of Gold Speech

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II. Essay Question (50 pts.): (Time 35 minutes) you will choose ONE of two timed, randomly selected,
essay questions to write about on the test.

1. Compare and contrast the attitudes of THREE of the following toward the wealth that was created in
the United States during the late nineteenth century.
a) Andrew Carnegie d) Eugene V. Debs
b) Horatio Alger e) Booker T. Washington
c) Ida M. Tarbell

2. Account for the emergence of industrialism in America by analyzing the most important factors of
THREE of the following categories. Be sure to show the connections between the categories.
a) Government c) Discovery/ Innovation
b) Economics d) Immigration/Labor

3. “Although the economic growth of the United States between 1860 and 1900 has been attributed to a
governmental policy of laissez-faire, it was in fact encouraged and sustained by direct government
intervention.” Assess the validity of this statement

4. Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865
and 1900.

a) Government actions c) Labor unions

b) Immigration d) Technological changes

5. “The reorganization and consolidation of business structures was more responsible for late
nineteenth-century American industrialization than was the development of new technologies.”
Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to business structures and technology
between 1865 and 1900.

6. Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.

7. Analyze the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century (1880-1900) saw as threats to
their way of life. Using your knowledge of the period explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and
evaluate the validity of the farmers’ complaints.

8. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems
of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning
of the twentieth centuries (1877-1915). Assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the
historical context in which each was developed.