U.S. HISTORY 2 CHAPTER 16 America's Gilded Age,1870-1890 (1.PASTE in GOOGLE DOCS 2.Hit CTRL H,or CTRL F 3.PASTE Q from quiz) answer will appear fast if it desn't leave key words in the search
How did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations to cities?
A. Increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet.
Q:What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?
A. Nothing at all.
"Liberal" reformers of the Gilded Age believed:
A. wealth inequality was inevitable in modern society.
The Ghost Dance:
A.was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.
Q:Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?
A: He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes.
Q:Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:
A: Isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.
Q:The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT:
A: an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally.
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:
A: class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.
Q:The Civil Service Act of 1883:
A: created a merit system for government workers.
The second industrial revolution was marked by:
A: the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.
Q:Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:
A: were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration.
Q:Why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve statehood?
A:Many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon populations.
Q:Which of the following properly assesses the direction of the "Christian lobby" in the Gilded Age?
A:The "Christian lobby" sought more to legislate individual morality rather than to improve society.
Q:Bonanza farms:
A:Typically had thousands of acres of land or more.
Q:What criticism did Henry Demarest Lloyd leverage against Rockefeller's Standard Oil in Wealth against Commonwealth (1892)?
Standard Oil was undermining fair competition in the marketplace.