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The politics of the Gilded Age 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

How is Standard Oil depicted in the magazine "Puck," illustrating the company as a dangerous monopoly?

An octopus

Which of the following was NOT true of the second industrial revolution?

Boom in automobile spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production

The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the...

Gilded Age

All of the following were Captains of Industry except:

Grover Cleveland

Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?

He had provided food, fuel, and patronage in exchange for their votes

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

Irish-Americans

Which city became the world's center for iron and steel manufacturing?

Pittsburgh

Which mode of transportation is usually associated with the second industrial revolution?

Railroads

How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?

Railroads created a true national market for U.S goods

Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age?

They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors

The Civil Service Act of 1883 required

applicants for government jobs to pass examinations

Political machines dominated politics, at the level, by placing their hand picked candidates in high positions such as mayor. They call these people

bosses

Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves...

buying out raw material producers and distributors

The Social Gospel:

called for the assistance to the urban poor

In the late nineteenth century, middle class social thinkers such as Walter Rauschen busch, Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Laurence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change, primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of:

class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital

After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range?

cowboys

For workers, the second industrial revolution meant all of the following except:

decrease in child labor

Republican economic policies strongly favored

eastern industries and bankers

Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?

electricity

The Interstate Commerce Commission, established in 1887, was the first federal agency to:

ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates

One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was

frequent and prolonged economic depressions

Social Darwinism was used to justify all of the following except:

government regulation of business

The federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late 19th century by:

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

In what type of organization do companies producing the same product merge?

horizontal integration

Thomas Edison:

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

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age except:

low tariffs

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877; Haymarket Affair of 1886; Homestead Strike of 1892. The primary cause of the labor strikes in this list was the

low wages of workers compared to factory owners

The economic development of the American West was based on:

lumber, mining industries, tourism, and farming

What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?

nothing at all

The Sherman Antitrust Act:

outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade

Which of the following was not a business strategy of Carnegie, Rockefeller, or other industrial magnates of the late 19th century?

paid their workers high wages

Thomas Nast was noted for which of the following activities ?

published political cartoons that exposed corrupt political activities in New York City

The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit...

railroad companies and train travelers

The _____ made possible the second industrial revolution in America.

railroads

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor

restricted membership to only skilled workers

The invention of the telephone changed the nature of work by

speeding up the pace of business transactions

During the second industrial revolution, the courts:

tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor

What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?

the Knights of Labor

The industrial Revolution in the United States took place principally in:

the Northeast and the Midwest

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

the acceleration of factory production, a boom of railroad industry, and steel production

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

the airplane

What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?

the invention of the elevator and steel framework

In 1863, _____ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today.

the major railroad companies

The theory of Social Darwinism argued that

the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor

Bonanza farms were:

typically comprised of 3,000 acres of land or more

In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were...

ways manufacturers sought to control the marketplace

Elections during the Gilded Age:

were closely contested affairs

Crédit Mobiler was the Whiskey Ring:

were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration

By 1980, the majority of Americans:

worked for wages


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