History 102 Chapter 16

The United States underwent one of the most rapid and profound economic revolutions any country has ever experienced. Which of the following is a major factor?

Abundance of natural resources

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

False

During the two decades following the Civil War, which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.

False

In 1879, for the first time since the Civil War, the United States departed from the gold standard.

False

In the late 1800s, Protestants attempted reforms to "stamp out sin," yet were tolerant of businesses opening on Sundays.

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

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

The author of How the Other Half Lives (1890) was

Jacob Riis

What was the name of the organization that sought to organize workers - both skilled and unskilled, women as well as men, blacks along with whites - and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?

Knights of Labor

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

Standard Oil

The poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?

Statue of Liberty

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

Steel

"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.

True

By 1890, the vast majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.

True

By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.

True

By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and their children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.

True

Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the American Indian economy.

True

In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.

True

On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 American Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

True

The first national labor walkout occurred in 1877 and was the Great Railroad Strike.

True

The event marking the end of four centuries of armed conflict between the continent's native population and European settlers and their descendants was called

Wounded Knee.

In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from

a derogatory term found in literature for an object that is covered in a layer of gold that masks a core of little value.

Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?

a pan-Indian movement which involved singing, dancing, and religious observances believed to be reminiscent of earlier prophets

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was

an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians.

In the late 1800s, this geographic area experienced the most dramatic growth in capitalism.

land west of the Mississippi river

The new agricultural empire producing wheat and corn for national and international markets arose

on the Middle Border.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of

removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways"

The belief that private control of economic enterprises should be replaced by government ownership in order to ensure a fairer distribution of the benefits of the wealth produced is called

socialism

Legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director are called

trusts

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

"Cooperative Commonwealth"