Question for topic 2
What is the most likely definition of the French term laissez-faire?
"Allow to act."
What was one way that "new" immigrants of the late 1800s were unlike "old" immigrants?
"New" immigrants shared relatively few cultural characteristics with native-born Americans.
Ragtime music was developed by
African Americans.
What type of entertainment available to people during the Gilded Age was most tied to technology?
Coney Island
Which of the following is a disadvantage of corporations?
Corporations can become so large that they have too much influence over an industry.
How did technological advances in agricultural production push many farmers to migrate to cities?
Increasing supplies of food caused prices to drop.
Why did the federal government become involved in the American Railway Union's strike against Pullman?
It involved interstate commerce and mail movement.
Which of the following statements about the Interstate Commerce Commission is true?
It was the first federal entity to monitor business practices.
What was one unintended consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Many single-crop ranches in California struggled economically.
What was one effect of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
The cost of many goods made in the United States decreased.
What does the term "wage slavery" refer to?
The fact that workers couldn't leave a job while owing money to the employer
Why did the South's dependence on a single cash crop after the Civil War hurt the region's economy?
There was little investment in industries other than agriculture.
Why did many immigrants to the United States have such an optimistic spirit?
They believed better economic and personal opportunities awaited them.
Why did many working class people remain in cities even though suburbs with better living conditions were available?
Transportation into and out of the city cost more than they could afford.
What did immigrants help the United States to become?
an economic world power
Social Darwinism equated being 'fit' with
being financially successful.
Child labor laws were passed in response to
children's health issues and lack of school attendance.
What was the key to preventing outbreaks of cholera in cities?
clean water supplies
The most likely reason that Angel Island was not welcoming to Chinese immigrants was a result of
cultural prejudice."New" immigrants shared relatively few cultural characteristics with native-born Americans.
What is an example of a "pull" factor that brought immigrant to the United States?
economic opportunity in the United States
Which of the following innovations had the greatest impact on standards of living in urban areas?
electric cable cars
The electric streetcar
encouraged urban workers to live outside of larger cities.
What kind of entertainment did Chautauqua tents eventually provide?
events with a religious theme
New technologies such as the carpet sweeper and telephone are
examples of the way in which innovation improved standards of living.
The point of a cartel was to
fix prices.
Corporations were an important addition to the industrial free-market system because they
had access to large amounts of funding.
The goal of the Americanization movement was to
help new immigrants assimilate to American culture.
Americanization programs were mostly focused on
helping immigrants assimilate into American society.
The growth of the newspaper industry was the direct result of
higher literacy rates as more young people gained access to public schools.
Between 1860 and 1900, a primary cause of migration from rural to urban areas was
increasing economic opportunity in cities.
Business owners generally paid low wages in factories because
keeping wages low meant lower production costs.
One major way that businesses lowered production costs was by
merging competing firms.
Compared to the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor was
more focused on specific issues, like wages and working conditions.
Similar types of work in a particular place were often done by people who
moved to America from the same country.
The "new" immigrants differed from the "old" immigrants in their
nations of origin.
During the second Industrial Revolution, immigration was necessary to
provide needed labor.
The AFL differed from the Knights of Labor in that
the AFL did not advocate for broad social change.
A higher standard of living for the middle class was increasingly identified with
the ability to purchase mass-produced products.
The most significant reason railroads encouraged industrial growth was
the efficient transportation of raw materials and finished goods.
In the 1880s, farmers were put out of work by
the mechanization of farming methods.
An example of a technological innovation that increased the country's natural resource base is
the oil drill.
Department stores became popular in the late 1800s because
they advertised widely and carried high-quality goods at fair prices.
Why did the federal government attempt to put limits on corporations' powers?
to attempt to protect consumers and competitive practices
Based on this quote and the title of his book, why do you think Riis wrote what he did?
to encourage public discussion of poverty in cities
Why did business leaders, such as Andrew Carnegie, set up universities, museums, and libraries?
to give poor people a chance to become wealthy through education
Of the three key elements needed to promote industry, the South lacked
two: an educated labor force and capital investment.
The ideas addressed by writers such as Horatio Alger and Edith Wharton show that literature oftentimes
was a reflection of the realities of life.
From the first major strike in 1877 through the Pullman strike in 1893, all major strikes
were unsuccessful.
Labor unions generally formed as a result of
workers' efforts to improve working conditions and increase wages.
