Give Me Liberty!: Chapter 16 (True/False)

During the two decades following the Civil War which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.

False

Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth , which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society.

False

The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.

False

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.

False

The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.

False

The West was a remarkably homogeneous region —only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.

False

The new Indian tribes that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there.

False

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

False

Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive, taxation.

False

"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.

True

A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.

True

By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.

True

By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows and children, consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.

True

During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood.

True

Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the Indian economy.

True

In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.

True

In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.

True

Inspired in part by President Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees.

True

Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.

True

On 29 December 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, most women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

True

The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing officeholding from the hands of political machines.

True

The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.

True

The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

True

The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.

True

The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.

True

The most famous Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.

True

The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York , in which the Court voided the state's law establishing a 10-hour day maximum for bakers.

True

Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.

True

According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation's corporations.

False

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

False

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer 's troops were victorious.

False