History Quiz 1; Chapters 15-19

Which of the following capitalists is NOT appropriately matched with their respective industry?

------> J.P. Morgan - Electricity Henry Ford - Automobile Andrew Carnegie - Steel John Rockefeller - Oil

The 13th amendment....

Abolished slavery.

Labor conflicts during the Gilded Age revealed what about the relationship between labor, business, and government?

Both local and federal governments sided with the interests of business

During reconstruction, the most rapid improvement (with some help of the Freedmen's Bureau) was in what area?

Education

Which of the following individuals is NOT a good example of a leading industrialist during the Gilded Age?

Grover Cleveland

Which of the following conclusions may be drawn from the facts surrounding the general railway strike of 1877?

If all else failed, the federal government could be counted on to put down labor unrest.

According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later nineteenth century?

Individual property ownership and farming on family plots.

This person was a leading figure in the early conservation movement and advocated for the creation of forest reserves.

John Muir

Which labor union can be best described as "one big group for everybody"?

Knights of Labor

Most people who moved out west had what in common?

Most were men.

Chief Joseph was the leader of which people?

Nez Perce

Which supreme court case established the principle of separate but equal?

Plessy v. Fergeson

The Fourteenth Amendment:

Provided birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law

The railroad boom of the west was made mostly possible as a result of what?

The largest government subsidies in American history

The outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876 was significant because it

brought an end to Reconstruction

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

The laws referred to as "Jim Crow" laws...

imposed a system of segregation in the south

During the Gilded Age, child labor...

increased rapidly

Thomas Edison

invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

The economic development of the American West was based on:

lumber, mining, oil, and farming.

The Haymarket bombing of 1886....

resulted in a crackdown on labor unions and immigrant communities

The Fifteenth Amendment

said that states could not deny the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

After the Civil War, the labor system which replaced slavery in the south is

sharecropping

Everyday life for Indians on the Great Plains centered on

the buffalo.

In 1883, _______ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today.

the major railroad companies

The Ghost Dance:

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.

Advocates of Social Darwinism believed that

wealth is a mark of well-deserved power and responsibility.