Chapter 16

Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?

1880

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

False

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, general George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.

False

The Sherman Antitrust Act os 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.

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

The Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive taxation.

False

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

False

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

Irish-Americans.

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

Progress and Poverty

Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's company?

Standard Oil Company

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.

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

True

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was

William M. Tweed

What did one historian mean when calling a group of reformers during the Gilded Age in the United States the "Christian lobby?"

powerful national organizations like the Women's Christian Temperance Union, National Reform Association, and Reform Bureau now campaigned for federal legislation that would "christianize the government" by outlawing sinful behavior

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

steel

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

"Cooperative commonwealth."