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ISSUES OF THE GILDED AGE
Test B
A.
Key Terms and People
Directions: Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Write the correct
letter in each blank. You will not use all of the terms. (3 points each)
Column I
Column II
1. Harvard graduate who criticized Booker
T. Washington’s ideas
2. tool used to prevent African Americans
from voting by charging them money
3. political group that demanded “free silver”
and government ownership of railroads
4. Democratic presidential candidate who
supported “free silver”
5. organizations that brought farmers together
to form farm cooperatives
6. Republican winner of the 1896 presidential
election
7. group of Mexican Americans who fought to
protect land claims
8. schoolteacher, journalist, and anti-lynching
activist
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
Jim Crow laws
grandfather clause
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
Las Gorras Blancas
Oliver H. Kelley
Farmers’ Alliances
Populist Party
spoils system
poll tax
Grange
William McKinley
civil service
William Jennings
Bryan
9. legislation meant to segregate blacks and whites
10. founder of an organization that taught farmers
new farming techniques
B.
Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank. (4 points each)
11. Which of the following called for African Americans to “pull themselves
up from their own bootstraps”?
c. Booker T. Washington
a. W.E.B. Du Bois
d. Ida B. Wells
b. Rutherford B. Hayes
12. Whites accused Chinese workers on the West Coast of
a. taking “white” jobs.
b. claiming the best land.
c. destroying “Oriental” schools.
d. attacking railroad property.
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Directions: Use the timeline below to answer questions 13 and 14.
13. Which of the following occurred in 1848?
a. African American men gained suffrage.
b. Women gained suffrage.
c. Mexican Americans were guaranteed property rights.
d. Chinese Americans won protection of their citizenship.
14. Which of the following occurred in 1898?
a. African American men gained suffrage.
b. Women gained suffrage.
c. Mexican Americans were guaranteed property rights.
d. Chinese Americans won protection of their citizenship.
15. In 1872, Susan B. Anthony
a. formed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
b. was arrested for voting in an election in New York.
c. attended college to earn a graduate degree.
d. drafted a constitutional amendment granting women suffrage.
16. Which of the following describes Thomas Nast?
a. corrupt politician
b. political cartoonist
c. big business owner
d. writer and social commentator
17. The spoils system made political parties more powerful by
a. allowing party workers to push for civil service reform.
b. encouraging wealthy businessmen to donate money to the party.
c. blocking legislation introduced by the opposing political party.
d. filling important government positions with party supporters.
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18. In the late 1800s, the Republican Party
a. opposed both high tariffs and the gold standard.
b. supported both high tariffs and the gold standard.
c. supported high tariffs but opposed the gold standard.
d. supported the gold standard but opposed high tariffs.
19. In the late 1800s, organization among farmers resulted in
a. repeal of the “Grange Laws.”
b. dismantling of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
c. more regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates.
d. a Democratic victory in the 1896 presidential election.
20. The Populist Party
a. divided northern and southern urban workers.
b. supported private ownership of railroads.
c. excluded African Americans from membership.
d. called for “free silver” to help raise prices for farm goods.
C.
Document-Based Assessment
Directions: Read the quotation below. Then, on a separate sheet of paper, answer the question
that follows. (10 points)
“[This book] deals with an entirely ideal state of society; and the chief embarrassment of the writers in this realm of the imagination has been the want of illustrative
examples. In a State where there is no fever of speculation, no inflamed desire for
sudden wealth, where the poor are all simple-minded and contented, and the rich
are all honest and generous, where society is in a condition of primitive purity and
politics is the occupation of only the capable and the patriotic, there are necessarily no
materials for such a history as we have constructed out of an ideal commonwealth.”
—Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, 1873
21. Interpret Point of View Why does Mark Twain call the economic and social
conditions depicted in his novel “an entirely ideal state of society”?
D.
Critical Thinking
Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points each)
22. Compare and Contrast Consider the problems faced by African Americans, Chinese
immigrants, Mexican Americans, and women after the Civil War. How were the
experiences and responses of these groups similar? How were they different?
23. Synthesize Information Identify three major problems faced by farmers after the
Civil War. Explain how farmers organized to address these problems.
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