109 US History Quiz Chapter 16
In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
mercantile steamboats steel oil
The spirit of innovation contributed importantly 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 typewriter telephone handheld camera
Which of the following was not true of the second industrial revolution?
A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production. More than any other sector, the railroad was the engine of the industrialization. Some companies rose to dominance by operating at a loss and underselling their rivals. Some companies beat out the competition by taking over more stages of production and distribution.
Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?
11 million 1 million 25 million 65 million
Which of the following was not a theme of Social Darwinism?
Charles Darwin's scientific theories help to explain—and justify—class inequalities in industrial society. The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom. By and large, the poor have only themselves to blame for their misfortune. Government initiatives to ease the hardships of the poor are misguided.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Dawes Act; Wounded Knee massacre; Ghost Dance campaign; battle of Little Big Horn Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York founding of Knights of Labor; Haymarket Affair; Great Railroad Strike of 1877; close of Reconstruction Sherman Antitrust Act; Interstate Commerce Act; Civil Service Act; Panic of 1873
Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?
Great Railroad Strike Haymarket Square International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Strike Carnegie Steel Strike
Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were:
Henry George and Thomas A. Edison. Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie. Henry Demarest Lloyd and John D. Rockefeller. Terence V. Powderly and William Graham Sumner.
At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.
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By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.
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By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
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During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood.
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In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.
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Inspired in part by President Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees.
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The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.
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The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
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The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.
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The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.
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Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.
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With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
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Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive taxation.
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Which of the following was not a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?
Valuable natural resources out West gave U.S. settlers a powerful incentive to remove Indians. The widespread image of Indians as barbaric discouraged measures to protect their independence. Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to U.S. military power. The U.S. government regularly broke treaties designating which land would remain in the hands of the Indians.
The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be:
a time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments. an era of golden opportunity for migrants, immigrants, and Native Americans. a glittering Jazz Age and time for youthful rebellion. a golden age, like that of the period of the American founding, in the late eighteenth century.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as:
the Great Depression. the Jazz Age. the Age of Jackson. Reconstruction
The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in:
the Southeast and Southwest the mid-Atlantic states and the Southwest. the Northeast and the Midwest. the Southwest and Northwest
