Chapter 16

Nicola Tesla

electric motor

Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:

were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration.

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.

How did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the 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 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.

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of wage labor in industrializing America during the Gilded Age?

More and more Americans experienced wage labor as a permanent condition on the edge of poverty.

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.

What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?

Nothing at all

Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between the government and the economy in the Gilded Age?

Politicians of both major parties favored business and banks and supported a reduction in the money supply and a return to the gold standard.

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.

Dawes Act

broke up tribal lands

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.

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.

John D. Rockefeller

oil industry giant

Little Big Horn

only temporarily delayed the advancement of white settlement

William Tweed

popular with New York City's immigrant poor

conspicious consumption

spending money to show off wealth

Andrew Carnegie

steel industry giant

Lochner v. New York

voided state law establishing maximum sixty hour work week