Give Me Liberty!: Chapter 16 (Multiple Choice)

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

1880

Between 1870 and 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?

25 Million

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.

The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is

"Cooperative Commonwealth"

The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be

A time for dishonesty and corruptions in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.

Which of the following was NOT a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?

America's first nationwide railroad strike.

What Indian chief said, "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all and even chance to live and grow?"

Chief Joseph

Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance?"

Feared by US Army officials

Which of the following was NOT a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?

Federal income tax levels

According to Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by

Granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs

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

Haymarket Square

Which of the following was NOT a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?

Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to US military power.

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except

Irish-Americans

The 1887 Dawes Act

Led to the loss of tribal lands, and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.

Which was NOT a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?

Low tariffs

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York

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

One-third

The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes is titles

Progress and Poverty

All of the following were Captains of Industry except

Samuel Gompers

Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's Company?

Standard Oil Company

Which type of industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

Steel

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as

The Great Depression

The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was

The Interstate Commerce Commision

What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?

The Knights of Labor

The industrial Revolution in the US took place principally in

The Northeast and Midwest

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 1870s and 1880s?

The airplane

Which of the following was NOT a theme of Social Darwinism?

The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.

In 1890 the distribution of wealth in the US was

The top 1 percent owned more property than the remaining 99 percent.

Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were

Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie

The political "boss" of NYC in the early 1870s was

William Marcy Tweed