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The philosophy of Social Darwinism applied Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to
a) biblical accounts of creation.
b) human society and competition.
c) political and economic issues.
d) the social reform movement.

Social Darwinism was used by some industrial leaders to justify
a) government regulation.
b) laissez-faire capitalism.
c) philanthropy.
d) political activism.

In contrast to Social Darwinists, social reformers believed that society’s problems could be fixed only by
a) encouraging competition and natural selection.
b) helping poor people to help themselves.
c) recognizing that people fail due to circumstances beyond their control.
d) regulating the economy and helping those in need.

The Social Gospel movement worked to better conditions in cities according to
a) biblical ideals of charity and justice.
b) the economic doctrine of laissez-faire.
c) practical realities of urban poverty.
d) the principles of social science.

In public schools, immigrant children learned English and were taught about American history and culture, a process known as
a) Americanization.
b) assimilation.
c) industrialization.
d) urbanization.

In which American city did the first salaried baseball team play?
a) Boston
b) Cincinnati
c) New York
d) Pittsburgh

Which of the following established a professional civil service by requiring that some government jobs be filled by competitive written exams, rather than patronage?
a) the gold standard
b) the graduated income tax
c) the Interstate Commerce Act
d) the Pendleton Act

.
a) right answer
b) wrong answer
c)
d)

Between 1860 and 1899, an average of 187 lynchings occurred each year, with the majority in
a) Northern states.
b) Southern states.
c) urban tenements.
d) Western territories.

Booker T. Washington, the most famous African American of the late nineteenth century, urged African Americans to
a) campaign against lynching and other forms of violence and discrimination
b) leave the South and form their own independent communities in the West.
c) postpone the fight for civil rights and concentrate instead on economic goals.
d) use education as a means to pursue full equality and civil rights.

Which of the following African American leaders was particularly concerned with protecting and exercising voting rights?
a) W.E.B. Du Bois
b) Mary Church Terrell
c) Booker T. Washington
d) Ida B. Wells

Europeans who immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s found it hard to break away from a class system.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The Chinese Exclusion Act prevented Chinese people already in the United States from becoming citizens.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

In America’s growing cities in the late 1800s, the wealthy and the working classes lived in different neighborhoods.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Thomas Pendergast, the corrupt boss of Tammany Hall in New York during the 1860s and 1870s, was eventually arrested for corruption and sent to prison.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Social Darwinists believed in survival of the fittest and supported government’s active role in solving society’s problems.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

With the Pendleton Act, the federal government began a shift away from the spoils system.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

.
a) right answer
b) wrong answer
c)
d)

Laws in Southern states that enforced segregation and discrimination were called Jim Crow laws.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

To prevent African Americans from voting, Mississippi required all citizens registering to vote to pay a poll tax of $2—a sum beyond the means of most poor African Americans.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

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