Foner: The guilded age

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is:

Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.

For workers, the second industrial revolution meant all of the following EXCEPT:

a decrease in child labor.

What did hunters shoot while riding the railroads across the West?

buffalo

In the late nineteenth century, social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Laurence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change, primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of:

class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.

After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range?

cowboys

The Civil Service Act of 1883:

created a merit system for government workers.

The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:

dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.

Republican economic policies strongly favored:

eastern industrialists and bankers.

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:

focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.

The Plains Indians:

included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux.

Thomas Edison:

invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

The American working class:

lived in desperate conditions.

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

low tariffs.

The Indian victory at Little Bighorn:

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

William M. Tweed was a(n):

political boss who, although corrupt, provided important services to New Yorkers.

Which mode of transportation is usually associated with the second industrial revolution?

railroads

The Dawes Act of 1887:

sought to break up the tribal system.

During the second industrial revolution, the courts:

tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor.

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.

By 1890, the majority of Americans:

the growing gap between the rich and poor.

In his speech "A Second Declaration of Independence," labor leader Ira Steward argued that the most pressing problem facing the nation was:

the growing gap between the rich and poor.

In 1883, ____________ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today.

the major railroad companies

What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?

to civilize the Indians, making them "American" as whites defined the term

Bonanza farms:

typically had 3,000 acres of land or more.

Chief Joseph:

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

The Ghost Dance:

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.

The Knights of Labor:

was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:

was evidence of worker solidarity and the close ties between industry and the Republican Party.

Elections during the Gilded Age:

were closely contested affairs.

Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:

were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration.