US History Module 5 Section 1

Anarchism

Because of its connection to the fringes of the labor movement, ____________________ caused many Americans to link labor unions with violent protest and terrorism.

William S. Burroughs

adding machine

lightbulb

According to the lesson, Thomas Edison's most important invention was the __________________.

Pennsylvania

According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?

300,000

According to the lesson, approximately how many African-Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?

84

According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?

economic

According to the lesson, the push and pull factors that led many Americans to migrate to cities were primarily ____________ in nature.

"leave it alone"

According to the lesson, the term laissez-faire is French for

units that represent part ownership of a company sold in order to raise revenue

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes a stock?

a massive failure

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the results of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

railroads

According to the lesson, which of the following industries was the first to produce modern corporations?

immigration from Europe and China

According to the lesson, which of the following provided the greatest source of new workers in the American economy during the Gilded Age?

a growing population and the availability of cheap labor

According to the lesson, which of the following was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?

Southern and Eastern Europe

Between 1860 and 1920, the United States accepted 28 million immigrants. Most of these immigrants came from which of the following parts of the world?

200,000

Between 1865 and 1897, the national railway network grew from 35,000 to almost _________ miles of track.

George Eastman

Camera

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was made as an attempt to stop Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. Chinese immigrants experienced, even more, abuse on the east coast because the immigrants were willing to work for very cheap wages and this made them more likely to be hired than other workers who cost more for the same job. This angered other workers causing the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Discuss the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the experience of many Chinese immigrants to America. Why did this group of immigrants experience even more severe abuse than European immigrant groups on the east coast?

The American Railway Union

Eugene V. Debs, who led the following labor union, played a key role in the Pullman Strike?

kerosene

For most of the nineteenth century, oil was mainly used to produce which of the following important commodities?

many cities established a professional police force for the first time cities established boards of health to improve hygiene cities began setting aside land for parks cities adopted fire codes and paid professional firefighters

How did American cities respond to many of thee problems that arose from urbanization? [choose all that apply]

Order

In The Search for __________________, Robert H. Wiebe argued that American's values changed dramatically as the nation entered the modern era in the Gilded Age

horizontal

In a(n) ____________________ integration model, a corporation attempts to acquire every other producer of a given commodity

Germany

Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?

slums

Massive migration to cities saw the rise of densely populated sections of those cities called _________, where disease and poverty was rampant.

the establishment of an eight-hour workday

On May 1, 1866, the Knights of Labor organized a one-day general strike of 340,000 workers that eventually led to the Haymarket Affair. What was the goal of that strike?

The Gilded Age saw a massive migration to cities from rural settings for a few reasons. One reason is because the cities were industrialized which meant many job opportunities. Jobs in the city were more preferred because agricultural jobs became less common.

The Gilded Age saw massive migration of Americans to cities from rural settings. What were some of their motivations for moving to urban settings?

political

The National Labor Union was more focused on ____________________ change than on bargaining with big business.

the Department of Justice

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following US Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?

time

The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.

Haymarket Affair Knights of Labor

The violent _____ in Chicago led to the demise of the _____ a powerful national labor union.

motor

Thomas Edison's invention of the electric ___________________ was particularly useful in industrial settings, because if freed factories reliance on rivers or coal to supply energy, allowing them to be located almost anywhere.

railroad

Though he later came to dominate other industries, Andrew Carnegie was a manager in which of the following industries before 1873?

investment banking

Though he was involved in several industries, J.P. Morgan first acquired his wealth through which of the following?

tenements

What was the name of multifamily dwellings in many American cities that were usually between four and six stories high and housed dozens of families living side by side?

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed by congress to prohibit trusts.The legislation ultimately was unsuccessful because it was designed to create competition however the act was not defined well enough to actually work.

What was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890? Why was the legislation ultimately unsuccessful?

vertical integration

When a company owns every part of a given industry from raw materials to final sale, it is practicing ______________ ________________.

a company that holds a significant amount of stock in several other companies within the same industry, which it is then able to control

Which of the following best describes a holding company?

government generally did not interfere with business

Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?

restrict Chinese immigration

Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingman's Party of California?

heirarchical

Which of the following best describes the management structure of most big businesses during the Gilded Age?

it allowed the Federal government to pay for an immigrant's passage to the United States

Which of the following best describes the provisions of the Contract Labor Act of 1864?

cultural and ligual differences among workers from different countries oversupply of unskilled laborers limited government protection of workers an association with anarchism and violence

Which of the following circumstances made it difficult for labor unions to be successful during the Gilded Age? [choose all that apply]

The American Federation of Labor

Which of the following eventually became the nation's largest labor union, reaching its peak at four million members in 1920?

Alexander Graham Bell

Which of the following individual is famous for inventing the telephone?

Eugene V. Debs

Which of the following individuals became the leader of the American Socialist Party in 1897 with support from the American Railway Union?

Terrence Powderly

Which of the following individuals became the leader of the Knights of Labor in 1882 and helped it become a national organization?

Andrew Carnegie

Which of the following individuals called himself a "distributor" of wealth, believing that he had a duty to give back to those who had helped him acquire his riches?

Mark Twain

Which of the following individuals coined the term "Gilded Age?"

John D. Rockefeller

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

Andrew Carnegie

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?

Samuel Gompers

Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1886 to 1924?

Henry Clay Frick

Which of the following individuals was the manager of the Homestead Works during the Homestead Strike and nearly lost his life in an assassination attempt?

the electric motor the phonograph the motion picture camera the storage battery

Which of the following inventions are attributed to Thomas A. Edison? [choose all that apply]

wages generally rose

Which of the following is true of most American workers' wages between 1860 and 1890?

Knights of Labor

Which of the following labor unions had a radical, utopian vision of an economic system based on cooperation rather than competition?

a 10-percent pay cut among many rail company workers

Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

The National Labor Union

Which of the following was the first labor union engaged on a national scale made up of representatives from several craft unions?