History Exam: Chapter 16

What else did The Women's Christian Temperance Union fight for?

. Prostitution, gambling, birth control, and polygamy

By 1913, the US produced ______ of the world's industrial output.

1/3

The Gilded Age:

1870-1890

The Depression plagued the economy between _________ and ___________.

1873 and 1897

The United States underwent one of the most rapid and profound economic revolutions any country has ever experienced. Which of the following is a major factor? A) bundant natural resources B) a small supply of labor C) low tariffs from foreign competition D) use of the army to aid in settling Indians to western lands proven successful for agriculture and mining

A

Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?: A) a pan-Indian movement which involved singing, dancing, and religious observances believed to be reminiscent of earlier prophets B) a celebrated form of an Irish folk dance C) due to forced migration, it was a new form of rain dance D) an Anasazi dance paying tribute to Kokopelli

A

The conquest of the _____________________________________ was part of a global process.

American West

In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was: A) about equally distributed. B) the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent. C) unknown, as data on wealth was not then collected. D) far below that of other industrialized nations.

B

Which of the following can be associated with the decline of the Knights of Labor? A) Great Railroad Strike B) Haymarket Square C) International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Strike D) Carnegie Steel Strike

B

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was: A) a wealthy rancher in the new West. B) an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians. C) a collector of Indian artifacts, especially those of the dwindling buffalo population. D) a self-made millionaire who made his money on stocks and wore cowboy boots in the boardroom

B

________________________'s show became the most important popularizer of this idea of the "wild west"

Buffalo Bill

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except: A) Protestant immigrants. B) African-Americans. C) Irish Americans. D) members of revivalist churches.

C

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune? A) mercantile B) steamboats C) steel D) oil

C

The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in: A) the South. B) the Midwest and lower South. C) the North and the Midwest. D) the Southwest.

C

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was: A) Charles Dudley Warner. B) Schuyler Colfax. C) William M. Tweed. D) James A. Garfield.

C

_____________ worked for Thomas Scott at Pennsylvania Railroad.

Carnegie

Book the popularized socialist ideas for an American audience"

Cooperative Commonwealth

The new agricultural empire producing wheat and corn for national and international markets arose on the A) plains of the Old South. B) delta region of Louisiana. C) Ohio River Valley. D) Middle Border.

D

______________________ dominated the South and Catholic votes

Democrats

___________________ plagued the economy between 1873 and 1897.

Depression

_________ vs. __________ (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians.

Elk vs. Wilkins

The West was a remarkably homogeneous region—only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse. (True/False)

False

The new American Indian groups that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there. (True/False)

False

Farmers responded to railroad policies by organizing the______________.

Grange

Battle of the Little Bighorn:

Indian victory

_______________________________________ reconciled freedom and authority in the workplace.

Labor contracts

___________________________ adherents established mission and relief programs in urban areas.

Social Gospel

___________________________________ expanded their responsibilities to the public.

State governments

On May 1, 1886, some 350,000 workers in cities across the country demonstrated for an eight-hour day. This was known as?

The Haymarket Affair

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

True

Compared to the United States and the American Indians, Australia's handling of the Aboriginal people was harsher. (True/False)

True

In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West. (True/False)

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/False)

True

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

True

Popular entertainment imagined the __________ as a place of adventure, uncorrupted by civilization, ruled by Indians and cowboys.

West

What group moved from "moral suasion" to a campaign for federal legislation outlawing the consumption of alcohol?

Women's Christian Temperance

On December 29, 1890, soldiers opened fire on Ghost Dancers encamped on ________________________________ Creek in South Dakota, killing between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children.

Wounded Knee

Sumner believed that freedom required...

acceptance of inequality

Sherman Antitrust Act:

banned practices that restrained free trade and prohibited unions

The Dawes Act:

broke up land of nearly all tribes into small portions to be distributed

The courts viewed state regulation of __________________ as an insult to free labor.

business

Vertical integration:

control over every phase of the business

Horizontal integration:

control over one key phase of the business

Civil Service Act of 1883:

created a merit system for federal employees

Gilded Age reformers feared that with lower class groups seeking to use government to advance their own interests, ______________________ was becoming a threat to individual liberty and to the rights of property

democracy

Republican economic policies strongly favored the interests of:

eastern industrialists and banker

What is the Social Gospel movement?

effort to reform Protestant churches

Interstate Commerce Commission (1887):

ensured railroad rates were reasonable

Charles Darwin put forth the theory of ?

evolution

Social Darwinism argued:

evolution was as natural a process in human society as it was in nature and gov't shouldn't interfere

the Ghost Dance:

f

The real West included:

farm families, labor conflict, the federal government, and racial/ethnic diversity

The __________________________________________ acquired Indian land by war and treaties, administered land sales, and distributed land to farmers, railroads, and mining companies.

federal government

Return to _________ standard in 1879.

gold

What was vital for financing industrialization?

growth of cities

Function of George's single tax solution?

increased taxes for landowners

Many nineteenth-century laws offered citizenship to _____________ if they gave up tribal identity and assimilated into American society

indians

A "Christian lobby" of mainstream Protestants sought political answers to the moral dilemmas they observed as a result of....

labor strife and urbanization

Failure to advance in society was widely thought to indicate ?

lack of character

The 1880 census showed that a majority of the workforce engaged in ____________________________ jobs.

non-farming

Rockefeller dominated the ________ industry.

oil

What is the gold standard?

paper currency became exchangeable for gold at a fixed rate

What was the Haymarket affair?

protested the killing of 4 labor strikers

Henry George's solution:

single tax

As the United States matured into an industrial economy, Americans struggled to make sense of the new _____________________________.

social order

Wounded Knee Massacre:

soldiers opened fire on Ghost Dancers

By the 1890's Carnegie dominated the _____________ industry.

steel

What made the second industrial revolution possible?

the railroad

Lochner v. New York:

voided state law establishing ten hours

Many Americans viewed the concentration of ________________ as inevitable, natural, and justified by progress.

wealth

1877 Great Railroad Strike:

workers protested a pay cut

The Knights of Labor:

workers that wanted to improve social conditions

Ghost Dance:

z