Chapter 16 Part 2

The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York:

voided a state law establishing that bankers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week.

The Greenback-Labor Party:

wanted the federal government to stop taking money out of circulation.

The Knights of Labor:

was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:

was evidence of worker solidarity and the close ties between industry and the Republican Party.

Elections during the Gilded Age:

were closely contested affairs

Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:

were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration

The over 150 utopian and cataclysmic novels published during the last quarter of the nineteenth century:

were inspired by the growing fear of class warfare.

The Haymarket Affair:

-FALSE: The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket. -was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally.

Individuals who wrote about the subject of America's poor:

EXCEPT: Charles Darwin.

The theory of Social Darwinism:

NOT: the theory evolved from the british scientist Charles Darwin

What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?

Nothing at all.

The direction of the "Christian lobby" in the Gilded Age:

The "Christian lobby" sought more to legislate individual morality rather than to improve society

Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required an equalization of wealth and power and that unbridled competition mocked the Christian ideal of brotherhood?

Walter Rauschenbusch.

The Social Gospel:

called for an equalization of wealth and power.

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

class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.

The Civil Service Act of 1883:

created a merit system for government workers

The Grange was an organization that:

established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output

One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important is that:

it underscored the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time.

Republican economic policies strongly favored:

midwest farmers

Henry George offered a(n) __________ as a solution for the problem of inequality in America.

single tax

The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to:

standardize the transport of animal feed between states

During the second industrial revolution, the courts:

tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor.