US History Module 6

By the end of the nineteenth century, what percentage of whites in the South were not able to read?

11%

According to the lesson, the unemployment rate averaged around which of the following between 1893 and 1898?

20%

Between 1865 and 1897, the national railway network grew from 35,000 to almost ___________ miles of track.

200,000

About what percentage of American cowboys were African Americans?

25%

According to the lesson, approximately how many unskilled urban workers lost their jobs in a matter of months after the start of the Depression of 1893?

25%

According to the lesson, approximately how many African Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?

300,000

Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

A 10% pay cut among many rail company workers

According to the lesson, which of the following was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?

A growing population and the availability of cheap labor

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the results of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

A massive failure

Which of the following individuals is famous for inventing the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

Which of the following best describes most American's attitude concerning political parties during the Gilded Age?

Americans were extremely loyal to their party

Which of the following is true of the Compromise of 1877? [Please choose all that apply.]

An agreement was made to pull military support out of the South ; It signaled the end of Reconstruction as Republican governments collapsed and white Democrats gained control of the South ;Rutherford B. Hayes became President.

Because of its connection to the fringes of the labor movement, ____________________ caused many Americans to link labor unions with violent protest and terrorism.

Anarchism

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?

Andrew Carnegie

Which of the following Southern cities became the largest producer of coal and steel in the South?

Birmingham, Alabama

Which of the following was one of the greatest contributing factors in the defeat of William Jennings Bryan in the Election of 1896?

Bryan failed to appeal to immigrants and working poor in the Midwest.

Which of the following individuals called himself a "distributor" of wealth, believing that he had a duty to give back to those who had helped him acquire his riches?

Carnegie??

Before the discovery of bright-leaf tobacco, most people smoked tobacco in pipes, but the new strain of tobacco was suitable for ______________, which became a boom for the tobacco industry in the upper South.

Cigarettes

Grover ______________, the nominee of the Democrat Party, won the election of 1892, though Populists gained a significant portion of the popular vote.

Cleveland

Although Samuel Tilden received the majority of the popular vote and seemed ahead in the Electoral College, what created controversy regarding the outcome of the election?

Contested Electoral votes from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana

Jacob ___________, a Populist businessman from Ohio, began to push for a government public-works program for the unemployed. His ideas gained a significant following in 1894.

Coxey

Political machines in Northeastern cities were more closely associated with the _______________ Party.

Democratic

Which of the following best describes the campaign of William Jennings Bryan in the Election of 1896?

Energetic and active

Which of the following religious groups tended to identify with Republicans during the Gilded Age?

Evangelicals

Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?

Government generally did not interfere with business

Which of the following was the only Democratic Party candidate to win the Presidency between 1869 and 1914?

Grover Cleveland

The violent _____ Affair in Chicago led to the demise of the __________ of Labor, a powerful national labor union.

Haymarket; Knights

Which of the following US cities was first founded as a mining boom town?

Helena, Montana

What was the name of the mining technique that used high-pressure water cannons to break away hillsides to reveal valuable minerals?

Hydraulic mining

Political machines in Northeastern and Midwestern cities had the most influence with which of the following?

Immigrants

According to the lesson, which of the following was NOT a significant source of new workers in the American economy during the Gilded Age?

Immigration from Canada and Mexico

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, which President Hayes attempted but failed to block with his veto?

Increased the money supply by minting more silver coins

Though he was involved in several industries, J.P. Morgan first acquired his wealth through which of the following?

Investment Banking

Which of the following was NOT one of the provisions of the Enforcement Acts passed in response to the rise of the KKK?

It became a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to life, liberty, and property

Which of the following individuals gained significant profits from Cleveland's decision to allow the Treasury to borrow money from Wall Street investment bankers?

J.P. Morgan

Charles Guiteau, a mentally deranged man disgruntled over having been refused a Federal job, assassinated which of the following US. Presidents?

James A. Garfield

Which of the following individuals became the People's Party nominee for President in the Election of 1892?

James B. Weaver

Laws that discriminated against blacks in the South became known as _______ ________ laws after the name of a derogatory black character in a famous minstrel show.

Jim Crow

_______ _______ laws in the South ensured that the region would remain firmly Democrat due to restrictions on black voters.

Jim Crow

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

John D. Rockefeller

Which of the following individuals became the Presidential nominee of the Gold Democrats?

John M. Palmer

For most of the nineteenth century, oil was mainly used to produce which of the following important commodities?

Kerosene

The most important and influential secret society that arose in the South to oppose Radical Reconstruction was the ______________________.

Klu Klux Klan

According to the lesson, Thomas Edison's most important invention was the __________________.

Lightbulb

The notion that belligerent Northerners had wrecked the dream of Southern prosperity became known as the "_________ Cause" in the South.

Lost

Into which state did President Grant refuse to send federal troops to restore order after race riots began in 1875, thus marking the end of the military component of Reconstruction?

Mississippi

How did the legacy of the Civil War impact party politics in the Gilded Age?

Most Americans voted based off their viewpoint during the civil war

Thomas Edison's invention of the electric ___________________ was particularly useful in industrial settings, because if freed factories from reliance on rivers or coal to supply energy, allowing them to be located almost anywhere.

Motor???

What was the name of Boss Tweed's political institution that dominated politics in New York City?

NOT Boss Hall

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Bland-Allison Act of 1878 and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890?

NOT regulate freight rates

Which of the following individuals founded the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867, which later spawned the Granger Movement?

Oliver H. Kelley

According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?

Pennsylvania

Which of the following is NOT a natural resource that helped to contribute to the industrial and economic boom of the Gilded Age?

Petroleum

Which 1886 Supreme Court case upheld segregation laws in the South, provided that all accommodations for blacks and whites were "separate, but equal"?

Plessy v. Ferguson

_____________ mining, which was sometimes called lode or hard-rock mining, required the construction of tunnels and pumps to remove water from underground caverns.

Quartz

According to the lesson, which of the following industries was the first to produce modern corporations?

Railroads

Which of the following Presidents campaigned on a promise to fight corruption after Grant's scandal-filled term in office?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1886 to 1924?

Samuel Gompers

_________________ was an agricultural system whereby a farm laborer worked someone else's land in return for supplies and a portion of the crop he produced.

Sharecropping

Massive migration to cities saw the rise of densely populated sections of those cities called _________, where disease and poverty were rampant.

Slums

The _______________ Republicans chose their name for their unwavering support of President Grant and argued for the continuance of the spoils system.

Stalwart

Which of the following issues became the main focus of the Election of 1888?

Tariff reform

What was the name of multifamily dwellings in many American cities that were usually between four and six stories high and housed dozens of families living side by side?

Tenements

Which of the following individuals became the leader of the Knights of Labor in 1879 and helped it become a national organization?

Terrence Powderly

Between 1880 and 1900, the South surpassed New England as the largest producer in which of the following industries?

Textiles

Which of the following eventually became the nation's largest labor union, reaching its peak at four million members in 1920?

The American Federation of Labor

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following US Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?

The Department of Justice

What was the main persuasive goal of the "Cross of Gold" Speech?

The Federal government should allow the unlimited coinage of silver.

Laws that disenfranchised blacks violated or circumvented which Constitutional Amendment?

The Fourteenth Ammendment

Which of the following labor unions had a radical, utopian vision of an economic system based on cooperation rather than competition?

The Knights of Labor

Formed in 1877 out of the International Workingmen's Association, which of the following was the first Socialist political party in the United States?

The Socialist Labor Party

Which of the following united in 1889 to form the new National Alliance, which eventually led to the establishment of the People's Party in 1892? [Choose all that apply.]

The Southern Farmers' Alliance; The Northern Farmers' allaince

Which of the following remained one of the most important crops in Virginia and the upper South after the Civil War?

Tobacco

Which of the following is NOT true of unions formed during the mining booms?

Unions ultimately proved to be ineffective at helping miners receive better treatment.

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes a stock?

Units that represent part ownership of a company sold in order to raise revenue

What was the name given to Mexican cowboys during the time of the cattle drives?

Vaqueros

Who became the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard College and later founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

W.E.B. Dubois

Which of the following is true of most American workers' wages between 1860 and 1890?

Wages generally rose

According to the lesson, the Depression of 1893 brought the most harm to which of the following groups?

Western Farmers

In the midterm election, the People's Party lost much of its support from which of the following groups to the influence of the Democratic Party?

White Southerners

In the Election of 1880, the Democratic Party nominated this former Union general, hoping his nomination would distance themselves from secessionism and the Confederacy?

Winfield Scott Hancock

In the 1870s, Democrats in the South reorganized the party platform as a _______________ movement.

conservative

Which of the following inventions are attributed to Thomas A. Edison? [Please choose all that apply.]

motion camera, storage battery, phonograph

The National Labor Union was more focused on ____________________ change than on bargaining with big business.

political

___________ taxes limited the voting rights of black Southerners by requiring citizens to pay a fee in order to vote.

poll

Supporters of the ruling class of lawyers, merchants, businessmen, and planters in the South called them ________ while their detractors referred to them as ________.

redeemers; bourbons

In the Election of 1876, both the Republicans and Democrats favored _______________________________.

relaxing radical Reconstruction policies and a return of state rule in the South

Western farmers and ranchers were upset with the government in 1890 when they raised the _____________ rate, which led to a steep decline of beef and crop exports.

tariff

On May 1, 1866, the Knights of Labor organized a one-day general strike of 340,000 workers that eventually led to the Haymarket Affair. What was the goal of that strike?

the establishment of an eight-hour workday

The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.

time