History chapter 16

Which of the following was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886

America's first nationwide railroad strike

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as

Great Depression

The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was

Interstate Commerce Commission

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except

Irish Americans

Which of the following was not a focus of debate between democrats and republicans during the Gilded Age

federal income tax levels

Which was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution

low tariffs

Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"

Feared by U.S. Army officials

Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor

Haymarket Square

Which of the following are not a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indians

Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to U.S. military power

The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in

Northeast and Midwest

What was the book in which Hebert George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes

Progress and poverty

All of the following were "captains of industry" except

Samuel Gompers

The spirit of innovation contributed importantly to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s

The airplane

Which of the following was not a theme of social Darwinism

The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.

Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were

Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie.

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was

William Marcy Tweed

The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be

a time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.

According to Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by

granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs.

The 1887 Dawes Act

led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.

By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?

one third