History chapter 16

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

1880

Between 1870 in 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.

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

Irish Americans

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

The Interstate Commerce Commission.

In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.

True

The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was

William Marcy Tweed

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 opp

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

false

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.

false

During the two decades following the Civil War, which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.

false

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.

false

The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.

false

Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive taxation.

false

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

federal income tax levels

The 1887 Dawes Act:

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

The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in:

the Northeast and the 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 the 1870s and 1880s?

the airplane

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

the great depression

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

A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.

true

By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.

true

During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood.

true

Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the American Indian economy.

true

In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.

true

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.

true

The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.

true

The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

true

The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.

true

The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York, in which the Court voided the state's law establishing a ten-hour day maximum for bakers.

true