HIST CH 16

Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate

By 1880, 3/4 of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.

Voter participation during the Gilded Age was never over 60 percent.

F

Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?

He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes.

According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later nineteenth century?

Individual property ownership and farming on family plots.

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is:

Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.

How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?

Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.

After the Haymarket Affair, employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals.

T

Both Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes through vertical integration

T

Racial and ethnic groups added their own elements to the western myth, including celebrating the Mexican-American outlaw, Gregorio Cortez.

T

The Knights of Labor raised the question of whether meaningful freedom could exist in a situation of extreme economic inequality

T

The events of 1886 suggested that labor might be on the verge of establishing itself as a permanent political force.

T

The spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth

T

Which of the following properly assesses the direction of the "Christian lobby" in the Gilded Age?

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

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

The railroad strike signaled the nation's shift from Southern reconstruction to the question of labor and class tensions.

What did Native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia?

They found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions

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.

Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:

isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.

The Ghost Dance

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites