Period 6 Questions

The "Pittsburgh plus" pricing system stunted the growth of the steel industry in which Southern city?

Birmingham, AL

How did American newspaper publishers expand their circulation and public attention in the Gilded Age?

By printing sensationalist stories of sex, corruption, and scandal

Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?

Chinese and Irish

The Dawes Act (1887) did which of the following?

Divided the Native American tribal lands into individual holdings

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

Eastern and Southern Europe

The author of the term "New South" was

Henry W. Grady

How did the Billion-Dollar Congress quickly dispose of rising government surpluses?

It expanded pensions for Civil War veterans

Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?

It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations

Which effort represented the first attempt to regulate the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations during the Gilded Age?

Laws passed by state legislatures that regulated the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations

What was the most important factor that drew rural people off the farms and into the big cities during the Gilded Age?

The availability of industrial jobs

Which of the following constitutes a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?

The division of tribal lands among individual members

Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?

The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible

Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women

What vital function did big-city political bosses and their machines perform in order to manage the social and economic demands of the new urban environment?

They provided jobs and social services to many urban immigrants in exchange for political support that permitted New Immigrants to raise a family, earn a livelihood, and escape abject poverty

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?

Upheld segregated railroad facilities

All of the following were major attractions for potential investors in southern manufacturing industries EXCEPT

a well-educated and ethnically diverse workforce

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was primarily an expression of his

advocacy of free and unlimited coinage of silver

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American agriculture was characterized by

an increase in acres under civilization

The People's Party (Populist) advocated which of the following?

an increase in the money supply

Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier hypothesis" focused on the importance of the existence of

cheap unsettled land

With the passage of the Pendleton Act, prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from

contractors doing business with the federal government

The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's

cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to

draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported

expansion of southern industry

All of the following contributed to the decline of open-range cattle ranching at the end of the nineteenth century EXCEPT

federal recognition of American Indian land claims

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth was based on the belief that wealthy industrialists should use their wealth to

finance philanthropic endeavors

By 1900, a new generation of woman's suffrage advocates emphasized all of the following EXCEPT

forming strong alliances with African Americans seeking voting rights

Which of the following was true of the American labor movement in the late nineteenth century?

it was involved in a number of violent strikes

Between 1870 and 1900, farmers did all of the following in an attempt to better their condition EXCEPT

limit production of crops

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

Which of the following two industries were most significantly expanded as a result of the competition of the transcontinental railroad?

mining and agriculture

In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored

northern industrial interests

According to Secretary of State James Blaine's "big sister policy," the United States increasingly sought to

open Latin American markets to American traders

Settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

organizing women workers into labor unions

During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, farmers complained about all of the following EXCEPT

rising commodity prices

All of the following economic strategies were employed by the titans of industry during the late 19th Century to maximize their corporations' profits EXCEPT

seeking stable labor relations with their workers by permitting collective bargaining with unions

Members of which of the following groups were most likely to support the Populist Party?

sharecroppers from the South

Which development was a critical reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age?

sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the Democratic and Republican parties

The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized

skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

Which were the two major sources of funding for the powerful new American research universities of the Gilded Age?

state land grants and wealthy philanthropic industrialists

All of the following economic developments were significant factors in enabling America to industrialize rapidly EXCEPT

the sale of confiscated Confederate land and property

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?

they were mainly female

James Buchanan Duke's use of industrial and technological innovation led to the increased consumption of

tobacco

What two technological innovations greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late 19th Century?

typewriter and telephone

All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that it

was financed by private corporations without federal assisstance