HY 121 Ch 16

As the United States matured into an industrial economy, Americans struggled to make sense of a new social order that included "better classes," "respectable classes," and "dangerous classes." Identify the statements that describe the nation's social problems during the Gilded Age.

- There was a growing permanent factory population living on the edge of poverty alongside a growing class of millionaires, which posed a sharp challenge to traditional definitions of freedom. - Throughout the United States, state and local governments set up investigative committees to inquire into the relations between labor and capital in the face of increasing unrest.

gold, silver, and copper states

Colorado

Identify the statements that describe the economic changes that occurred between 1870 and 1920.

- The GNP per capita between 1870 and 1920 more than doubled. - Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in industry grew significantly. - Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in agriculture decreased significantly.

Identify the events and conditions that led to the second industrial revolution that took place between the Civil War and the early twentieth century.

- The country had a growing supply of labor and an expanding market for manufactured goods. - There was money available for investment. - The federal government enacted tariffs that protected American industry from foreign competition.

Every Republican candidate for president from 1868 to 1900 except for James G. Blaine had fought in the Confederate army in the Civil War.

False

In 1879, the United States went off the gold standard to help debt-ridden farmers.

False

Most of the farms on the Great Plains were bonanza farms that covered thousands of acres and employed large numbers of agricultural wage workers.

False

Colorado states

Texas

timber states

Washington

Identify the statements that describe the political scene in the United States during the Gilded Age.

- Americans during the Gilded Age saw the country as an island of democracy in a world dominated by undemocratic governments. - Powerful new corporations raised disturbing questions about the American understanding of political freedom and self-government.

Identify the statements that describe liberal reformers during the Gilded Age.

- Liberal reformers feared that as lower classes looked to use government to further their own interests, democracy was becoming a threat to individual liberty and the rights to property. - Some liberal reformers urged a return to property qualifications for voting.

The "overwhelming labor question" replaced slavery as the hot-button topic in the late nineteenth century. Identify the events and actions that illustrate the "overwhelming labor question."

- the Great Railroad Strike - Troops fired on striking workers in Pittsburgh, killing twenty people. - The federal government built National Guard armories in major cities to ensure troops would be on hand if strikes got out of control.

Identify the statements that describe the Knights of Labor.

The Knights of Labor included women in its membership.

Between 1860 and 1880, the number of railroad track miles tripled in the United States and tripled again by 1920. By the 1890s, five transcontinental lines transported products from coast to coast.

True

The Social Gospel movement originated as an effort to reform Protestant churches by expanding their appeal in poor urban neighborhoods and making them more attentive to the era's social ills.

True

Identify the statements that describe examples of Christian moral reform and its successful attempts to stamp out sin.

Women's Christian Temperance Union Gambling, prostitution, polygamy, and birth control were all targets of the legislation attempts to control or eliminate by Evangelical Christians in the Gilded Age. Mann Act of 1910

What are Chief Joseph's complaints about the treatment of his people?

- Despite his view that all men are brothers, the white men do not treat Indians as equals. - The white men do not keep their word to his men.

In this video, Eric Foner discusses court decisions held against labor on the grounds of individual freedom, specifically liberty of contract. What were the most important decisions made by the Court?

- The Supreme Court overturned laws that made it illegal for companies to pay their employees in scrip that could only be used at certain stores on the grounds it violated the right of property of these corporations. - The Supreme Court ruled that state laws regulating corporate behavior, limiting the number of hours a person could work, were unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.

The conquest of the American West was a unique phenomenon in global history, whereby settlers moved boldly into the interior of regions of a great continent with a temperate climate, bringing their families, crops, and livestock, and establishing mining and other industries.

False