Chapter 16 Quiz History 17.2

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

An octopus

Who did not deal, in some literary way, with the subject of America's poor?

Charles Darwin

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

Cowboys

The Dawes Act

Divided up Native American lands into sections for individual Natives to own and sold the rest

In order to reduce accidents along the railways, the federal government officially divided the nation into four time zones in 1883.

False

Many nineteenth-century laws offered citizenship to Indians if they gave up their tribal identity and assimilated into American society, and most Indians were willing to give up their tribal identity for citizenship.

False

The economy surged forward between 1870 and 1890, bringing prosperity and growth with only minor hiccups.

False

William Graham Sumner believed that the role of government extended to helping the poor.

False

The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the

Gilded Age

Who ran for mayor of New York in 1886 on a Labor ticket?

Henry George

What was not a cause of the explosive economic growth experienced by the United States between 1870-1890?

Low tariffs

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by conspicuous consumption is

Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.

Henry George offered a solution of a __________ for the problem of inequality in America.

Single tax

Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is false?

The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket.

After the Haymarket Affair, employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals.

True

American workers received higher pay than their European counterparts, but their working conditions were more dangerous.

True

Demands by workers that government help struck liberals as an example of how the misuse of political power posed a threat to liberty.

True

Labor raised the question whether meaningful freedom could exist in a situation of extreme economic inequality.

True

The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

True

The spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth.

True

Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required an equalization of wealth and power and that unbridled competition mocked the Christian ideal of brotherhood?

Walter Rauschenbusch

Henry George argued in Progress and Poverty that poverty sprang from

a denial of justice.

Henry George

advocated the single-tax plan.

Social Darwinism in America

all of the above

The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the

assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

In the late nineteenth century, social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Lawrence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of

class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.

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 depressions.

Thomas Edison

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

One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important is that

it underscored the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time.

The American working class

lived in desperate conditions

William Tweed was a(n)

political boss who, although corrupt, provided important services to New Yorkers.

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

railroads

sought to break up the tribal system.

sought to break up the tribal system.

During the second industrial revolution, the courts

tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor.

The second industrial revolution was marked by

the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.

The economic development of the American West was based on

tourism, lumber, and mining industries, as well as farming.

Bonanza farms

typically had 3,000 or more acres.

Elections during the Gilded Age

were closely contested affairs.

The over 150 utopian and cataclysmic novels published during the last quarter of the nineteenth century

were inspired by the growing fear of class warfare.