HISTORY A LEVEL MAKING OF A
SUPERPOWER AQA EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Percentage of labour force in manufacturing and mechanical industries of foreign
birth/parentage (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-56%
Haymarket Bomb - ANSWER-1886
Knights of Labor membership by 1886 - ANSWER-700,000
American Federation of Labor - ANSWER-1886
Number of labour strikes in 1886 - ANSWER-1,400
Land Grants from federal government to railways - ANSWER-70 million hectares
American Protective Association set up - ANSWER-1887
Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870 - ANSWER-138 million hectares
Interstate Commerce Act - ANSWER-1887
Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour) - ANSWER-1887
Dawes General Allotment Act - ANSWER-1887
Pan-American Conference - ANSWER-1889
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - ANSWER-1889-1893
Beginning of 'Jim Crow' laws - ANSWER-1890
McKinley Tariff - ANSWER-1890
Battle of Wounded Knee - ANSWER-1890
US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act - ANSWER-1890
1 in 7 Americans were foreign born in - ANSWER-1890
,African Americans living in the South in 1890 - ANSWER-90%
Pittsburgh Steelworker's Strike - ANSWER-1892
Formation of Populist Party - ANSWER-1892
Anti-Saloon League formed - ANSWER-1892
Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%) - ANSWER-1893
Presidency of Cleveland (2) - ANSWER-1893-1897
Pullman Strike - ANSWER-1894
Immigration Restriction League - ANSWER-1894
Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela - ANSWER-1895
Booker T. Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' - ANSWER-1895
Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley's campaign - ANSWER-$3 million
Gold Democrat Convention in Indiapolis - ANSWER-1896
In the 1896 election Bryan... - ANSWER-carried 22 states in the West and South, but
lost by 100 electoral college votes
Plessy vs Ferguson - ANSWER-1896
Cleveland removes the Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1896
Presidency of McKinley - ANSWER-1897-1901
US did not fight in overseas wars until - ANSWER-1898
US annexes Hawaii - ANSWER-1898
Spanish American War - ANSWER-1898
US acquires Philippines, followed by four-year war of subjugation - ANSWER-1898
Black migration North and West during Gilded Age - ANSWER-Practically doubled
Grandfather Clause introduced in Louisiana - ANSWER-1898
Amount spent on the 'Americanisation' of Native American children in 1899 -
ANSWER-$2.5 million
China Open Door Policy - ANSWER-1899
, Number employed by the railroads 1900 - ANSWER-1 million
Gold Standard Act - ANSWER-1900
Boxer Rebellion - ANSWER-1900
US establishes a protectorate in Eastern Samoa - ANSWER-1900
Platt Amendment - ANSWER-1901
Members of the Populist Party in Congress 1891-1902 - ANSWER-45
Presidency of T. Roosevelt - ANSWER-1901-1909
Number of anti-trust prosecutions under Roosevelt - ANSWER-44
Anthracite Coal Strike - ANSWER-1902
US Troops leave Cuba - ANSWER-1902
Number of people killed in industrial disputes 1902 to 1904 - ANSWER-198
(Progressive Era) Energy firm Dupont controlled... - ANSWER-85% of the nation's
power
Dominican Republic offers itself for colonisation - ANSWER-1869
Average Southerner's income 1870 - ANSWER-2/3 of the Northern average
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER-1870
Percentage of 'carpetbaggers' in the South - ANSWER-2%
All rebel states successfully readmitted - ANSWER-1870
Black officeholders in 1870 - ANSWER-More than for next 100 years
Immigrants during the 1870s - ANSWER-2.8 million
Protective tariff duties (Reconstruction Era) - ANSWER-As high as 50%
Presidency of Grant (Republican) - ANSWER-1869 - 1877
First National Park at Yellowstone - ANSWER-1872
Britain pays $15.5 million in compensation for aiding the Confederacy - ANSWER-
1872
First Panic - ANSWER-1873
SUPERPOWER AQA EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Percentage of labour force in manufacturing and mechanical industries of foreign
birth/parentage (Gilded Age) - ANSWER-56%
Haymarket Bomb - ANSWER-1886
Knights of Labor membership by 1886 - ANSWER-700,000
American Federation of Labor - ANSWER-1886
Number of labour strikes in 1886 - ANSWER-1,400
Land Grants from federal government to railways - ANSWER-70 million hectares
American Protective Association set up - ANSWER-1887
Reservation land held by Native Americans in 1870 - ANSWER-138 million hectares
Interstate Commerce Act - ANSWER-1887
Expanded treaty of friendship with Hawaii (Pearl Harbour) - ANSWER-1887
Dawes General Allotment Act - ANSWER-1887
Pan-American Conference - ANSWER-1889
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison - ANSWER-1889-1893
Beginning of 'Jim Crow' laws - ANSWER-1890
McKinley Tariff - ANSWER-1890
Battle of Wounded Knee - ANSWER-1890
US Census Bureau declares end of the frontier - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act - ANSWER-1890
1 in 7 Americans were foreign born in - ANSWER-1890
,African Americans living in the South in 1890 - ANSWER-90%
Pittsburgh Steelworker's Strike - ANSWER-1892
Formation of Populist Party - ANSWER-1892
Anti-Saloon League formed - ANSWER-1892
Second Panic (unemployment hits 20%) - ANSWER-1893
Presidency of Cleveland (2) - ANSWER-1893-1897
Pullman Strike - ANSWER-1894
Immigration Restriction League - ANSWER-1894
Cleveland intervenes in Venezuela - ANSWER-1895
Booker T. Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise' - ANSWER-1895
Amount spent by Mark Hanna on McKinley's campaign - ANSWER-$3 million
Gold Democrat Convention in Indiapolis - ANSWER-1896
In the 1896 election Bryan... - ANSWER-carried 22 states in the West and South, but
lost by 100 electoral college votes
Plessy vs Ferguson - ANSWER-1896
Cleveland removes the Silver Purchase Act - ANSWER-1896
Presidency of McKinley - ANSWER-1897-1901
US did not fight in overseas wars until - ANSWER-1898
US annexes Hawaii - ANSWER-1898
Spanish American War - ANSWER-1898
US acquires Philippines, followed by four-year war of subjugation - ANSWER-1898
Black migration North and West during Gilded Age - ANSWER-Practically doubled
Grandfather Clause introduced in Louisiana - ANSWER-1898
Amount spent on the 'Americanisation' of Native American children in 1899 -
ANSWER-$2.5 million
China Open Door Policy - ANSWER-1899
, Number employed by the railroads 1900 - ANSWER-1 million
Gold Standard Act - ANSWER-1900
Boxer Rebellion - ANSWER-1900
US establishes a protectorate in Eastern Samoa - ANSWER-1900
Platt Amendment - ANSWER-1901
Members of the Populist Party in Congress 1891-1902 - ANSWER-45
Presidency of T. Roosevelt - ANSWER-1901-1909
Number of anti-trust prosecutions under Roosevelt - ANSWER-44
Anthracite Coal Strike - ANSWER-1902
US Troops leave Cuba - ANSWER-1902
Number of people killed in industrial disputes 1902 to 1904 - ANSWER-198
(Progressive Era) Energy firm Dupont controlled... - ANSWER-85% of the nation's
power
Dominican Republic offers itself for colonisation - ANSWER-1869
Average Southerner's income 1870 - ANSWER-2/3 of the Northern average
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER-1870
Percentage of 'carpetbaggers' in the South - ANSWER-2%
All rebel states successfully readmitted - ANSWER-1870
Black officeholders in 1870 - ANSWER-More than for next 100 years
Immigrants during the 1870s - ANSWER-2.8 million
Protective tariff duties (Reconstruction Era) - ANSWER-As high as 50%
Presidency of Grant (Republican) - ANSWER-1869 - 1877
First National Park at Yellowstone - ANSWER-1872
Britain pays $15.5 million in compensation for aiding the Confederacy - ANSWER-
1872
First Panic - ANSWER-1873
