AMH chapter 16 (part 1 of test 1)
How did the displacement of native peoples in Australia differ from the experience of Indians in the American West?
Government policy orchestrated the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes for official adoption by whites
By 1890, the Majority of Americans
Worked for wages
The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT
an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally
The Plains Indians
included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux
The second industrial revolution was marked by
the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.
Cheif Joseph
wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Perce
All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
Low Tariffs
Why was the Hollywood version of the western "cowboy" based more on fantasy than reality?
Most cowboys were low-paid workers, some of whom even went on strike for higher wages
and example of what the economists and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is
Mrs. Bradly Martin's costume ball
How were skilled workers able to secure new freedoms for themselves in rapidly expanding industries?
Their knowledge allowed them to control the production process and the training of apprentices
What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?
To civilize the Indians, making them "American," as whites defined the term.
The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
True
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
Male farmers experienced the most hardship on the Great Plains, because farm women did not experience long days in the fields.
false
Most nineteenth-century Indians were willing to assimilate and give up their tribal identity for citizenship.
false
The Dawes Act was an extension of the treaty system practiced by the American government since the revolutionary way
false
The Morrill Land-Grant Act, passed during the Civil War, prohibited mining and railroad companies from continued use of public lands
false
the economy surged forward between 1870 and 1890, bringing prosperity and growth with only minor disruptions
false
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis
focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.
one significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was
frequent and prolonged economic depression
how did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations in cities
increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm productions, making it more difficult for the farmers to make ends meet.
Thomas Edison
invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.
Nineteenth Century Americans imagined the "wild west" as all of the following EXCEPT
isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the great plains
Why did new products like Ivory Soap and Quaker Oats symbolize the continuing integration of the economy in America's Gilded Age?
these products were national brands sold everywhere across the US thanks to the expanding railroad network
What did native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia
they found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions
John Wesley Powell warned that the western regions's arid land would require large scale irrigation projects and cooperative, communal farming to prosper
true
by 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activites
true
the spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth
true
Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West
urban populations in California declined as people moves to the centers of agricultural production
Chinese Immigrants to the west
worked in shoe and cigar factories in western cities.
Which of the following was included in theatrical and dime novel depictions of the American West
Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting
Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the US is accurate
By 1880, three fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.
Why was William Tweed so popular with the City's immigrant poor
Had had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes
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
Why did president James Buchanan replicate Utah's territorial governor Brigham Young with a non-Mormon appetite in 1857
It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed
What criticism did Henry Demarest Lloyd leverage against Rockefeller's Standard Oil in Wealth against Commonwealth (1892)?
Standard oil was undermining fair competition in the marketplace
William Cody
created a "Wild West" show that toured the United States and Europe.
The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:
dramatic as an agricultural empire grew
By the turn of the century, most Americans still workers for themselves as small-business owners or as farmers
false
the coming of the railroad to the Far West had little to do with the rapid expansion of corporate timber production
false
why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve statehood
many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon population
The Indian victory at the little bighorn
only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.
how did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in america
railroads creates a true market for US 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 companies
American workers revived high pay than their European counterparts, but their working conditions were more dangerous
true
Before the Civil War, most Chinese arrivals in the American West were single men, but by the 1870s, Chinese families had begun to arrive
true
Both Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes through vertical integration.
true
ELK v.WILKINS (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians
true
Bonaza Farms
typically had thousands of acres of land or more
The Ghost Dance
was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.
