Chapter 16 History

Massive hunting of what animal hurt the Plains Indians?

Buffalo

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

Built giant corporations that dominated their respective markets

The social gospel:

Called for an equalization of wealth and power

In the late 19th century social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy Henry George and Lawrence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of:

Class warfare in the growing power of concentrated capital

After the Civil War which of the following became a symbol of life of freedom on the open range?

Cowboys

The Dawes Act of 1887:

Divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families

Thomas Edison:

Invented, among other things, a system for generating in distributing electricity

Why did President James Buchanan replace Utah's territorial governor brigham young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857?

It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT

Lower tariffs

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

The acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad

In 1883, __________ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today

The major railroad companies

The theory of social Darwinism argued that:

The theory of evolution applied to humans thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor

The first billion Dollar enterprise Corporation was:

U.S. Steel