Unit V Practice Exam
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Questions 1-3 refer to the map below
1. The majority of Native American groups who were forced to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) came from: *
2. What is the concept that led to the American idea of opening lands for white settlement? *
3. Which of the following ideas were used to justify the harsh treatment of American Indians? *
Questions 4-6 refer to the excerpt below
“… Of all the races and varieties of men which have suffered from this feeling, the colored people of this country have endured most… The African origin can be instantly recognized, though they may be several removes from the typical African race…They are Negroes—and that is enough, in the eye of this unreasoning prejudice, to justify indignity and violence. In nearly every department of American life they are confronted by this insidious influence…It meets them at the workshop, and factory, when they apply for work. It meets them at the church, at the hotel, at the ballot box, and worst of all, it meets them in the jury box… Everything against the person with the hated color is promptly taken for granted; while everything in his favor is received with suspicion and doubt.”
Frederick  Douglass, The Color Line, 1891

4. Which of the following statements provides the best evidence in support of Douglass’ excerpt? *
5. Which other group of Americans in the period from 1865 to 1898 faced similar discrimination as blacks? *
6. Douglass’ view as expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from which of the following trends? *
Questions 7-9 refer to the excerpt below
“Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where any tribe or band of Indians has been or shall hereafter be located upon any reservation created for their use, either by treaty stipulation or by virtue of an act of Congress or executive order setting apart the same for their use, the President of the United States be, and be hereby is, authorized, whenever in his opinion any reservation of any part thereof of such Indians is advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes, to cause said reservation, or any part thereof, to be surveyed, or resurveyed if necessary and to allot the lands in said reservation in severalty to any Indian located thereon in quantities as follows:…”
Excerpt Dawes Severalty Act 1887

7. The primary goal of the Dawes Severalty Act (1887) was to *
8. An important impetus for the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act was *
9. Which of the following developments was similar to the Dawes Severalty Act in that they both had the same goal for the future of American Indians? *
Questions 10-12 refer to the cartoon below
10. Perhaps one of the most powerful trusts of the Gilded Age, as illustrated, was controlled by *
11. The Gilded Age was an economic period known for *
12. The Interstate Commerce Act was intended to *
Questions 13-15 refer to the poster below                                                        Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
13. Which of the following best reflects the attitude toward labor strikes presented in the image? *
14. Which of the following historical events was a direct result of the event depicted in the image? *
15. The insurrection depicted in the image occurred as a result of *
Questions 16-18 refer to the excerpt below
“The Cigar Manufacturers’ Association had declared that under no circumstances would any leaders of the strike be employed for at least six months. As a consequence, for nearly four months I was out of employment. I had parted with anything of value in the house, and my wife and I were everyday expecting a newcomer in addition to the five children we already had. My family helped in every way possible…Blacklisted, I desperately sought employment…Once I was ready to commit murder.  All the children were ill…”
Samuel Gompers, “Strike Baby”, 1878

16. The concerns expressed by Gompers were in response to *
17. Gompers’ position concerning a striker would have been supported by all of the following except? *
18. Which of the following was true for strikes around the time of the excerpt? *
Questions 19-21 refer to the map below
19. Between 1860 and 1900, railroads in the United States were *
20. Which of the following groups or movements most opposed the process illustrated above? *
21.The greatest priority of western railroad development as illustrated above was to *
Questions 22-24 refer to the excerpt below
The following are the names of those killed yesterday as furnished by the Coroner:
J.W. KLINE, Pinkerton detective, of Chicago
JOSEPH SOTAK, a striker of Homestead
PETER FERRIS, a laborer at eh Homestead plant
SILAS WAIN of Homestead, who was watching the battle from the mill yard
JOHN E. MORRIS, employed in the steel works at Homestead
THOMAS WELDON of Homestead
EDWARD CONNORS, a Pinkerton detective of New York
BORITZ MARKOWISKY of Homestead
PETER HEISE of Homestead
ROBERT FOSTER of Homestead
WILLIAM JOHNSON of Homestead
A number of others are reported dead, but the Coroner has no official notification of their death
Source: Coroner's list of the killed, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1892 (The New York Times, July 8, 1892)
22. The ideas expressed in the excerpt best foreshadow which of the following events in the late 19th century? *
23. Which of the following pieces of evidence most directly explains the reason why labor unions struggled to organize? *
24. Which of the following was an important cause to the event described in the text? *
Questions 25-27 refer to the cartoon below
25. The illustration above was likely created in support of *
26. The artist(s) of the illustration above would claim *
27. What was the main Gilded Age economic concern addressed in the cartoon above? *
Questions 28-30 refer to the excerpt below
“…Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the world; our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must, within a few weeks or months, be exchanged for billions of dollars’ worth of commodities consumed in their production…We believe that the power of government —in other words, of the people—should be expanded… as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, to the end that oppression, injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land….”
Preamble of the Populist Platform, 1892

28. Which of the following can be inferred from the excerpt above? *
29. The Populist Party emerged from *
30. Which of the following is true of the Populist Party? *
Questions 31-33 refer to the chart below
31. Which of the following most likely explains the change in the amount of the currency in circulation between 1865-1875? *
32. Which of the following groups during the period from 1865 and 1895 most actively campaigned to increase the money supply? *
33. A decline in the amount of money in circulation in proportion to the population would most likely result in a (n) *
Questions 34-36 refer to the excerpt below


1. We demand the abolition of the national bank
a. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita
5.      We condemn the silver bill recently passed by Congress, and demand in lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of silver
9.      We further demand a removal of existing heavy tariff tax from the necessities of life that the poor of our land must have
10.    We further demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes
13.    We demand that the Congress of the United States submit an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of US Senators by direct vote of the people of each state
- Excerpts from the Ocala Demands December 1890

34. The Ocala Demands resulted from a protest movement primarily involved *
35. The economic reasoning behind the Ocala Demands assumes that *
36. The Ocala Demands proved an important link between which of the following groups *
Questions 37-39 refer to the excerpt below
Let us know the modern city in its weakness and wickedness, and then seek to rectify and purify it until it shall be free at least from the grosser temptations which now beset the young people who are living in its tenement houses and working in its factories.”
Source: Excerpt from Jane Addams, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets, 1909.

37. Which of the following would have been most likely to support Jane Addams's view expressed in the excerpt? *
38. Which of the following most directly undermines Jane Addams’s assertions? *
39. In the late 19th century, the views expressed by Jane Addams most directly contributed to *
Questions 40-42 refer to the excerpt below
“… There is but one way to remove an evil—and that is, to remove its cause.  Poverty deepens as wealth increases, and wages are forced down while productive power grows, because land, which is the source of all wealth and the field of all labor, is monopolized. To extirpate poverty, to make wages what justice commands they should be, the full earnings of the laborer, we must therefore substitute for the individual ownership of land a common ownership. Nothing else will go to the cause of the evil…This, then, is the remedy for the unjust and unequal distribution of wealth apparent in modern civilization, and for all the evils which flow from it…      

Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

40. Which of the following is correct according to George? *
41. This excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following? *
 42. Which of the following ideas expressed in the excerpt is contrary to those of the Social Darwinists? *
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