HST 102 Chapter 16 Quiz

Between 1870 and 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?

25 million

Which of the following can be associated with the decline of the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Square

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?

Knights of Labor

In Wabash v. Illinois, this prior ruling was essentially reversed.

Munn v. Illinois

All of the following were "captains of industry" except

Samuel Gompers.

By 1880, persons of Chinese descent made up over half of California's farm workers.

True

By 1890, the vast majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.

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

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

The first national labor walkout occurred in 1877 and was the Great Railroad Strike.

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 ten-hour day maximum for bakers.

True

In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from

a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold but what lies beneath is of little value.

Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?

a pan-Indian movement which involved singing, dancing, and religious observances believed to be reminiscent of earlier prophets

The 1887 Dawes Act

led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of

removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways."

Founded in 1867, this group claimed more than 700,000 members in the mid-1870s, who called on state governments to establish fair freight rates and warehouse charges.

the Grange

The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable, and favoritism was avoided was

the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Elk v. Wilkins (1884) stated that

the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to American Indians.

In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was

the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent.

Legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director are called

trusts.