Give Me Liberty!: Chapter 16 (Multiple Choice)
Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the US?
1880
Between 1870 and 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?
25 Million
Which of the following was NOT true of the second industrial revolution?
A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production.
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
"Cooperative Commonwealth"
The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be
A time for dishonesty and corruptions in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.
Which of the following was NOT a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?
America's first nationwide railroad strike.
What Indian chief said, "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all and even chance to live and grow?"
Chief Joseph
Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance?"
Feared by US Army officials
Which of the following was NOT a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?
Federal income tax levels
According to Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by
Granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs
Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Square
Which of the following was NOT a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?
Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to US military power.
In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except
Irish-Americans
The 1887 Dawes Act
Led to the loss of tribal lands, and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.
Which was NOT a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?
Low tariffs
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York
By 1913, the US produced how much of the world's industrial output?
One-third
The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes is titles
Progress and Poverty
All of the following were Captains of Industry except
Samuel Gompers
Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's Company?
Standard Oil Company
Which type of industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
Steel
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as
The Great Depression
The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was
The Interstate Commerce Commision
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 US took place principally in
The Northeast and Midwest
The spirit of innovation contributed importantly to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of 1870s and 1880s?
The airplane
Which of the following was NOT a theme of Social Darwinism?
The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.
In 1890 the distribution of wealth in the US was
The top 1 percent owned more property than the remaining 99 percent.
Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were
Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie
The political "boss" of NYC in the early 1870s was
William Marcy Tweed