AMH chapter 16 (part 1 of test 1)

How did the displacement of native peoples in Australia differ from the experience of Indians in the American West?

Government policy orchestrated the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes for official adoption by whites

By 1890, the Majority of Americans

Worked for wages

The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT

an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally

The Plains Indians

included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux

The second industrial revolution was marked by

the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.

Cheif Joseph

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Perce

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

Low Tariffs

Why was the Hollywood version of the western "cowboy" based more on fantasy than reality?

Most cowboys were low-paid workers, some of whom even went on strike for higher wages

and example of what the economists and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is

Mrs. Bradly Martin's costume ball

How were skilled workers able to secure new freedoms for themselves in rapidly expanding industries?

Their knowledge allowed them to control the production process and the training of apprentices

What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for Indians?

To civilize the Indians, making them "American," as whites defined the term.

The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

True

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

Male farmers experienced the most hardship on the Great Plains, because farm women did not experience long days in the fields.

false

Most nineteenth-century Indians were willing to assimilate and give up their tribal identity for citizenship.

false

The Dawes Act was an extension of the treaty system practiced by the American government since the revolutionary way

false

The Morrill Land-Grant Act, passed during the Civil War, prohibited mining and railroad companies from continued use of public lands

false

the economy surged forward between 1870 and 1890, bringing prosperity and growth with only minor disruptions

false

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis

focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.

one significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was

frequent and prolonged economic depression

how did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations in cities

increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm productions, making it more difficult for the farmers to make ends meet.

Thomas Edison

invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

Nineteenth Century Americans imagined the "wild west" as all of the following EXCEPT

isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the great plains

Why did new products like Ivory Soap and Quaker Oats symbolize the continuing integration of the economy in America's Gilded Age?

these products were national brands sold everywhere across the US thanks to the expanding railroad network

What did native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia

they found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions

John Wesley Powell warned that the western regions's arid land would require large scale irrigation projects and cooperative, communal farming to prosper

true

by 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activites

true

the spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth

true

Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West

urban populations in California declined as people moves to the centers of agricultural production

Chinese Immigrants to the west

worked in shoe and cigar factories in western cities.

Which of the following was included in theatrical and dime novel depictions of the American West

Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting

Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the US is accurate

By 1880, three fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.

Why was William Tweed so popular with the City's immigrant poor

Had had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes

According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later Nineteenth Century

Individual property ownership and farming on family plots

Why did president James Buchanan replicate Utah's territorial governor Brigham Young with a non-Mormon appetite in 1857

It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed

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

William Cody

created a "Wild West" show that toured the United States and Europe.

The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:

dramatic as an agricultural empire grew

By the turn of the century, most Americans still workers for themselves as small-business owners or as farmers

false

the coming of the railroad to the Far West had little to do with the rapid expansion of corporate timber production

false

why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve statehood

many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon population

The Indian victory at the little bighorn

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

how did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in america

railroads creates a true market for US goods

Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age?

they hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their companies

American workers revived high pay than their European counterparts, but their working conditions were more dangerous

true

Before the Civil War, most Chinese arrivals in the American West were single men, but by the 1870s, Chinese families had begun to arrive

true

Both Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes through vertical integration.

true

ELK v.WILKINS (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians

true

Bonaza Farms

typically had thousands of acres of land or more

The Ghost Dance

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.