chapter 16/17 APUSH
In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was
Herbert Spencer.
Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?
James J. Hill
In his books, Horatio Alger
emphasized the value of personal character in business.
In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was
$290
In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed
that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.
In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because
they were not fit enough to survive in the market.
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because
they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.
In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"
was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.
In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians
assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.
The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.
Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
often found work doing domestic tasks
In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?
steel
The Pennsylvania Railroad was created by
the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.
The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of
vertical and horizontal integration.
The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of
vertical integration.
Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?
Yurok
In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of
a single land tax to replace all other taxes.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.
In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from
barbed wire.
Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States
barely developed at all.
The Knights of Labor
began as a secret fraternal organization.
In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires
began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege
Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,
imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.
During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States
increased significantly.
The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864
involved the killing of Indian women and children.
The Molly Maguires were a militant
labor union in the coal industry.
In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,
laborers could expect to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week.
In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon
led the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.
In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations
led to a diversification of research interests.
During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California
lost ownership of large areas of lands.
The open-hearth process of making steel
made the production of large-dimension pieces possible
In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese
moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility
During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life
often lacked any access to the outside world.
In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,
one percent of corporations controlled one-third of all manufacturing.
In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was
portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman
William Cody's Wild West shows
proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States.
Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law
put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.
During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"
referred to Chinese indentured servants.
In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland
reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers
In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to
reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks.
The Haymarket Square riot of 1886
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
Mining in the West
saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.
In 1917, automobile production in the United States
saw nearly five million cars on American roads.
In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
The Pullman strike of 1894
saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.
Chinese tongs were
secret societies
In the mid-1880s, the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of
severe weather.
In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT
the automobile industry.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were
the most widespread of the Indian groups in the West.
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was
the moving assembly line.
The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against
the railroads.
According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,
the rich had great responsibilities to society.
In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
the total failure of state and federal governments to pass legislation that would protect the rights of workers.
Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903
took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians partly as
wards of the president of the United States.
In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West
was a result of many factors, but the most important was the railroad.
The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
was a short-lived Indian victory.
The Dawes Act of 1887
was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers
The Homestead Act of 1862
was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.
By the mid-1840s, the American West
was extensively populated
The great railroad strike of 1877
was launched in response to a wage cut.
The theory of Social Darwinism
was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism.
In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between
white American ranchers and farmers.
By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was
Arizona.
The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was
Abilene, Kansas.
During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States
All these answers are correct.
During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by
All these answers are correct.
Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive from Texas to Missouri
All these answers are correct.
In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
All these answers are correct.
In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West
All these answers are correct.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was
All these answers are correct.
The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century
All these answers are correct.
The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer
All these answers are correct.
The western cattle industry saw Mexican ranchers first develop
All these answers are correct.
Samuel Gompers was the leader of the
American Federation of Labor
The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was
Chief Joseph.
Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific coast of the Far West?
Creek
Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?
John D. Rockefeller
During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from
England, Ireland, and northern Europe.
In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in
Europe.
In 1886, the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of
Geronimo.
Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?
It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations.
All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT
James Whistler.
By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers
None of these answers is correct.
In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in
Pennsylvania.
Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event?
Pullman strike
In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in
San Francisco.
The Comstock Lode primarily produced
Silver
Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?
Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.
At its height in 1886, the Knights of Labor were led by
Terence V. Powderly.
Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892?
The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.
In the late nineteenth century, regarding western agriculture,
commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so
The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,
cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.
To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was
cutthroat competition.
In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry that relied on the East for markets and capital?
fur trading
The Rocky Mountain School of painting
helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West
