Chapters 17-20 APUSH Review
The Gilded Age, 1877-1900
(Plus a little Reconstruction for good measure ;)
Test is Wednesday/Thursday
1. What were some of the positive political outcomes of the Reconstruction governments
of the south?
2. Why did Reconstruction come to an end?
3. What were the circumstances of the Plessy v Ferguson case?
4. What Amendment was threatened by the Supreme Court decision in the Plessy case?
5. What types of laws became commonplace after the Plessy decision?
6. What industry was causing a great deal of harm to the farmers in the late 19th century?
7. What was the real cause of the dropping farm prices?
8. Why did Mary Lease believe there was a conspiracy between government and big
business?
9. What was the platform of the Populists?
10. What was the ONE social issue the Populists did not address? I told you in class this
was my one criticism of them
11. What were the rules under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
12. Who helped newly arrived immigrants once they entered American cities?
13. What was different about the new immigrants of this time period?
14. Who was Jacob Riis? Why was his work so important and influential?
15. What was the social reaction to the work of Jacob Riis?
16. Who was John Muir and what is Hetch Hetchy?
17. What is a muckraker?
18. What is the premise of the Gospel of Wealth?
19. The first successful prosecution of a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act was
against ________________________.
20. Who supported William Jennings Bryan?
21. Who worked in the Settlement Houses?
22. How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differ in their philosophy
regarding racism and segregation?
23. How were the Progressives going to fix the “ills” of society?
24. Who led the Settlement House movement? Looking for a name here…….
25. Which two immigrants groups primarily built the transcontinental RR?
26. What was the goal of the Social Gospel movement?
27. What is horizontal integration? Vertical integration?
28. Who believed in survival of the fittest? OR “Survival of the RICHEST!”
29. In what region were women first given property rights?
30. Why were muckrakers so influential?
31. What pieces of legislation were passed by the Progressives?
32. Why was the AFL more successful than the Knights of Labor?
33. Who supported the Republican party? Democratic party?
34. What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment?