The American Yawp Chapters 15-19 Exam
with Complete Solutions
1. In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing
industry?
a) Chicago b) New York
c) St. Louis d) Dallas
2. How did railroads transform the American economy?
a) Created a new white color middle b) Inspired the development of organized
class of managers labor to meet the needs of a permanent
working class
c) Increased the role of government
d) All of the above
in the economy
3. Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities
a) 1880 b) 1900
c) 1910 d) 1920
4. By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to
what percent of the population?
a) 20% b) 33%
c) 50% d) 60%
5. All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts,
languages, and traditions EXCEPT
a) Rotary clubs b) Workmen’s clubs
c) Mutual-aid societies d) Parish churches
,6. Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?
a) Democratic Party b) Republican Party
c) Progressive Party d) Immigrant voters were nearly equally
divided in their party allegiance
7. From 1880 to 1950, approximately African Americans were murdered by white mobs.
a) 139 b) 345
c) 870 d) 5,000
8. , wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its
Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
a) Ida Tarbell b) Ida B. Wells
c) Lincoln Steffens d) Booker T. Washington
9. What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?
a) Poll taxes b) Literacy tests
c) Violence and intimidation d) All of the above
10. What was the Lost Cause?
a) A belief that the South could never b) A glorification of the memory of the
have won the war because northern Confederacy and a romanticization of
soldiers exerted greater virtue and the Old South as a pastoral land with
courage benevolent masters and happy slaves
c) The belief among northerners that
d) All of the above
southerners would never accept racial
equality
11. What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
a) Agriculture b) Textile mills
c) Tobacco production d) Furniture making
, 12. Which of the following statements regarding “muscular Christianity” are true:
a) Motivated by a fear that the b) Sought to stiffen young men’s’
country had become a nation of backbones by putting them in touch
emasculated men with their primal manliness
c) Built summer camps and gymnasiums
d) All of the above
where young American men could
strengthen their bodies and spirits
13. Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman b) Kate Chopin
c) Both of these d) Neither of these
14. When did the United States begin trading with China?
a) 1784 b) 1831
c) 1854 d) 1911
15. What was the Open Door Policy?
a) A commitment to free trade b) A demand for the abolition of all tariffs
throughout the Pacific Rim
c) The use of gunboat diplomacy in
d) A call for all western powers to have
establishing trade with Japan
equal access to Chinese markets
16. How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?
a) President McKinley sent the U.S. b) American troops fought alongside
Army into China without consulting British troops in a western coalition
congress designed to bring peace
c) The Americans sent diplomats to
d) The United States did not respond
protect missionaries and
formally to the rebellion due to
businesses
isolationist commitments
with Complete Solutions
1. In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing
industry?
a) Chicago b) New York
c) St. Louis d) Dallas
2. How did railroads transform the American economy?
a) Created a new white color middle b) Inspired the development of organized
class of managers labor to meet the needs of a permanent
working class
c) Increased the role of government
d) All of the above
in the economy
3. Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities
a) 1880 b) 1900
c) 1910 d) 1920
4. By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to
what percent of the population?
a) 20% b) 33%
c) 50% d) 60%
5. All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts,
languages, and traditions EXCEPT
a) Rotary clubs b) Workmen’s clubs
c) Mutual-aid societies d) Parish churches
,6. Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?
a) Democratic Party b) Republican Party
c) Progressive Party d) Immigrant voters were nearly equally
divided in their party allegiance
7. From 1880 to 1950, approximately African Americans were murdered by white mobs.
a) 139 b) 345
c) 870 d) 5,000
8. , wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its
Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
a) Ida Tarbell b) Ida B. Wells
c) Lincoln Steffens d) Booker T. Washington
9. What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?
a) Poll taxes b) Literacy tests
c) Violence and intimidation d) All of the above
10. What was the Lost Cause?
a) A belief that the South could never b) A glorification of the memory of the
have won the war because northern Confederacy and a romanticization of
soldiers exerted greater virtue and the Old South as a pastoral land with
courage benevolent masters and happy slaves
c) The belief among northerners that
d) All of the above
southerners would never accept racial
equality
11. What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
a) Agriculture b) Textile mills
c) Tobacco production d) Furniture making
, 12. Which of the following statements regarding “muscular Christianity” are true:
a) Motivated by a fear that the b) Sought to stiffen young men’s’
country had become a nation of backbones by putting them in touch
emasculated men with their primal manliness
c) Built summer camps and gymnasiums
d) All of the above
where young American men could
strengthen their bodies and spirits
13. Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?
a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman b) Kate Chopin
c) Both of these d) Neither of these
14. When did the United States begin trading with China?
a) 1784 b) 1831
c) 1854 d) 1911
15. What was the Open Door Policy?
a) A commitment to free trade b) A demand for the abolition of all tariffs
throughout the Pacific Rim
c) The use of gunboat diplomacy in
d) A call for all western powers to have
establishing trade with Japan
equal access to Chinese markets
16. How did the United States respond to the Boxer Rebellion in China?
a) President McKinley sent the U.S. b) American troops fought alongside
Army into China without consulting British troops in a western coalition
congress designed to bring peace
c) The Americans sent diplomats to
d) The United States did not respond
protect missionaries and
formally to the rebellion due to
businesses
isolationist commitments
