HY121 Midterm

Farms that covered thousands of acres and employed large numbers of agricultural wage workers.

Bonanza

Law passed in 1887 meant to encourage adoption of white norms among Indians; broke up tribal holdings into small farms for Indian families, with the remainder sold to white purchasers.

Dawes Act

True or False: American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

False

True or 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

True or 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

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

False

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

False

The idea proposed by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that those who are wealthy have an obligation to use their resources to improve society.

Gospel of Wealth

Preached by liberal Protestant clergymen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; advocated the application of Christian principles to social problems generated by industrialization.

Social Gospel

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.

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

True

True or False: On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 American Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

True

True or False: The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

True

True or False: 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

The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be

a time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.

Which of the following best describes the Ghost Dance?

feared by U.S. Army officials

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 was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?

low tariffs

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 United States took place principally in:

the Northeast and the Midwest.

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

The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is:

"Cooperative commonwealth"

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

False

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 U.S. military power.

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except:

Irish Americans.

What was the book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes?

Progress and Poverty

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.

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

True

True or False: 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

The 1887 Dawes Act:

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

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

steel