US History 2 Midterm
By 1900, the per capita income of the South was ___________ that of the national average.
60 percent
Which of the following statements regarding race relations in the last years of the 19th century is most accurate?
Economic, legal, and social discrimination against blacks increased.
What is the term given to describe the ability of companies to afford technological improvements and the workforces to propel them into the modern age?
Economies of Scale
What invention spurred the industrial and urban development?
Electricity
Which of the following was not a goal of late 19th century progressives?
Equality for Minorities
_____________________ was the name for the African Americans who migrated West in search of social and economic opportunities.
Exodusters
After the Second Industrial Revolution, corporations tried their hands at
Farming
Which of the following was not a big business that attracted cheap laborers to their factories during the Progressive period?
Farming
The historian who developed the so-called frontier thesis was
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Cuban War for Independence against Spain lasted how long?
From 1895 to 1898
The section of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was concerned with the excesses of the time were known as the
Half-breeds
Which of the following statements regarding Theodore Roosevelt is untrue?
He had no interest in politics before running for the vice presidency.
Thanks to this man's invention, steel became substantially cheaper to make.
Henry Bessemer
The process Rockefeller used to gain control of his company's industry is known as Correct!
Horizontal Integration
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for
Income tax
After the Civil War, what was the complaint about the federal tariff?
It was not forcing American companies to be competitive with their prices.
Which of the following is an example of a land grant college?
Kansas State University
The so-called grandfather clause originated in what state? Correct!
Louisiana
This early union was more interested in working to craft state laws important to their members than directly bargaining with employers.
National labor union
_____________________ was the name given to the violent racism against successful blacks that appeared in late 19th century.
Negrophobia
The rise of this ailment was used to try to keep women from attending college and out of the workplace.
Neurasthenia
John D. Rockefeller is best associated with which industry?
Oil
This replaced the spoils system for federal jobs with job placement on the basis of competitive testing.
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Which political party during the Gilded Age promoted the plight of miners and farmers?
Populists
The new immigrants that arrived after 1890 to the United States were not primarily
Protestant
By 1897, the United States had more of this than all the European nations combined
Railroads
The Hawaiian ruler Queen Liliuokalani tried to do what in the early 1890s?
Restrict the growing political power of America in the islands
The father of the muckrakers, and their style of writing, could be considered
Samuel McClure
What was not a cause of the changes in recreation and leisure in the Gilded Age?
Sanitation Improvements
The area west of the Mississippi had room for all of the following except
Seafaring
President Theodore Roosevelt's presidential plan was called the
Square Deal
The faction of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was not concerned with the excesses of the time was known as the
Stalwarts
The first federal law passed to restrict immigration on the basis of race was
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What is the name of the U.S. battleship that famously sank in Havana Harbor in 1898?
The Maine
The Knights of Labor's decline began because of its perceived involvement in
The haymarket riot
What was a reason that married women were offered less pay during the Gilded Age?
The husbands supported them
Need for reforming the workplace was brought to national attention in 1911 when a fire broke out at
The triangle shirtwaist factory
The first "progressive" president was
Theodore Roosevelt
Why were trusts created?
To sidestep laws preventing one company from owning another
The treaty that ended the War of 1898 and made Cuba independent was the
Treaty of Paris
This legal entity allowed companies to sidestep laws that forbade them from owning stock in their competitors.
Trust
What is one thing that the United States had that other nations did not that helped spur the Industrial Revolution?
Vast natural resources
What was an example of the new types of entertainment that became popular during the Gilded Age?
Wild west traveling shows
Which of the following industries was the United States not a world leader in by 1900?
gold
Whites on the Hawaiian Islands were referred to as
haoles
When one company buys or forces out all of their competitors, it is participating in
horizontal integration
One of the first areas were people began to be interested in reforming society was aimed at
the tenements
Homestead strike ended with
the workers' union destroyed and their leaders imprisoned.
The groups behind the YWCA and YMCA created their programs because
they believed that Christianity had gotten too far from the lower economic classes.
Which of the following groups did not fight in the War of 1898?
Dominicans
By the 1890s, the largest ethnic population in Hawaii was
Asians
More than 200,000 _______________________ arrived in California between 1876 and 1890.
Chinese
Which of the following was not a cause of industrial growth in the era following the Civil War?
a resurging southern economy
In cities during the Gilded Age, the political process was usually controlled by ________, and their organizations were known as _________.
bosses, machines
Because of the Roosevelt-Taft feud, Theodore Roosevelt decided to
break a pledge he had made to not seek another term in office.
President Theodore Roosevelt accomplished the majority of his progressive agenda
by convincing Congress to pass legislation.
According to your textbook, the post-Civil War West symbolized
economic opportunity and personal freedom
Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis ignored all of the following groups except
white men