History Midterm- 16

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

1880

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

False

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

False

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

False

Compared to other religions expanding to the West, the Mormons found an accepting community and their experience was relatively peaceful.

Fasle

Which of the following can be associated with the decline of the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Square

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

Jacob Riis

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

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 Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing office-holding from the hands of political machines.

True

The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.

True

The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

True

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

True

The most famous American Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.

True

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

William M. Tweed

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

Wounded Knee

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was

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

By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?

one-third

This federal agency was the first ever established to regulate economic activity. It also was meant to ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism was avoided.

the Interstate Commerce Commission

The spirit of innovation contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?

the airplane