Chapter 16 - Give Me Liberty
Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?
1880.
What was not true of the second industrial revolution?
A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production.
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
"Cooperative commonwealth."
Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?
25 million.
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.
What was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?
America's first nationwide railroad strike.
What can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Square.
What Indian chief said, "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all and even chance to live and grow"?
Chief Joseph.
Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance?"
Feared by U. S. Army officials.
What was not a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?
Federal income tax levels
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 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.
The 1887 Dawes Act
Led to the loss of tribal lands, and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.
What was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?
Low tariffs.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York (italics)
By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?
One-third.
The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes is titled
Progress and Poverty.
In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among
Protestant immigrants, African-Americans, and Union veterans.
All of the following were Captains of Industry except
Samuel Gompers.
Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's Company?
Standard Oil Company.
What type of industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
Steel.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as
The Great Depression.
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 1866?
The Knights of Labor.
The Industrial Revolution in the United States took place principally in
The Northeast and the Midwest.
The spirit of innovation contributed importantly to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?
The airplane.
What was not a theme of Social Darwinism?
The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.
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.
Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were
Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie.
The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was
William Marcy Tweed.
The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
