Quiz on APUSH Unit 6 (1865-1898)

#1 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday

Populist party Tammany Hall Ghost dance movement Labor unions

#2 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job

Booker T. Washington Homestead act Great railroad strike Pendleton Act

#3 Which of the following definitions matches the term?

International migration society

Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market. Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions Facilitated the migration of black people to africa

#4 Which of the following definitions matches the term?

Debates over money

Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans Idea that the future of the south would be based on economic diversity and industrial growth. Massive growth of population, industry, and railroads. Only in limited industrial centers though. Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo

#5 Which of the following terms matches the definition?

True

False

Section 1: Multiple Choice questions

Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday

Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job

International migration society

Debates over money

former slave who trained other black men to become economically self-sufficient, and argued this was a better way to gain power than to campaign for better voting rights

Section 2: True/false questions

Ida B. Wells

Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods

The new south

Idea that the future of the south would be based on economic diversity and industrial growth. Massive growth of population, industry, and railroads. Only in limited industrial centers though.

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

Jim Crow laws

Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves

Anti-Saloon league

Worked to close down saloons

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