Chapter 16 AMH

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

Amazon feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting

The term "gilded age" describes all of the following EXCEPT

An era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally

Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate.

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

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

False

Why was William tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor ?

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

How did expanding agriculture production and places like Argentina and American west lead to migration of rural populations to cities

Increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet

According to the authors of Dawes severally act, what constituted a civilized life for native Americans in the later nineteenth century

Individual property ownership and farming on family plots

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 populations.

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.

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is:

Mrs. Bradley 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.

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 competitors.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

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 depressions.

The Plains Indians

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

The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

By 1890, the majority of Americans:

worked for wages

Chinese immigrants to the west

worked in shoe and cigar factories in western cities.

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 War.

False

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

False

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

False

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

False

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.

Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:

Isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult live on the Great Plains

Why did president James Buchanan replace Utah's territorial governor Birgham Young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857

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

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the gilded ages except

Low tariffs

How did the expansion of railroad accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?

Railroads created a true national market for US goods

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.

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 United States thanks to the expanding railroad network.

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

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

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

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

American workers received higher 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

By 1880, a majority of Americans worked in non-farm activities.

True

Elk v. Wilkins (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians.

True

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

True

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

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 moved to the centers of agricultural production.

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

Thomas Edison

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

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

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

Bonanza Farms

typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

Chief Joseph

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

The ghost dance

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