Chapter 18

Immigrants who arrived before 1890 to the United States were primarily

Protestant

In the cities, what helped spur the development of professional sporting events?

Streetcars

By 1900, the United States had more saloons than grocery stores.

True

Charles Darwin did not agree with Herbert Spencer's adaptation of his ideas to the human realm.

True

Civil service reform was a result of the assassination of President James A. Garfield.

True

Leslie F. Ward stressed humankind's basic compassion

True

The first regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was created in 1887.

True

The implications of social Darwinism included

a belief in the progress of human societies.

The decision to only allow gold to be coined for money was derisively called the

Crime of '73

The Pendleton Act allowed for the coinage of more silver.

False

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 outlawed corporate actions in "restraint of trade."

False

In 1885, the United States government stopped

companies from paying to import workers from outside the nation.

President Cleveland made the Panic of 1893 worse by

convincing Congress to switch back to only minting gold.

For recreation, the urban working class preferred

going to saloons and dance halls.

What did not play a role in the terrible economic conditions in the South during the late 19th century?

lack of labor

Cholera, typhoid fever, and yellow fever were often the result in urban areas of

poor sanitation

Because of the excesses of the Gilded Age, a major period of ________ occurred to _______ it.

reform, counter

What did one journalist call "the social and intellectual center of the neighborhood" during the Gilded Age in large cities?

saloons

Realism in literature and art was influenced by

-the recent horrors of the Civil War -the rise of urban life -a new fascination with science

Social Darwinism had its roots in the work of

Herbert Spencer

The phrase "survival of the fittest" was coined by

Herbert Spencer

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," said

William Jennings Bryan

In the 1880s, the source of foreign immigration to the United States shifted from

northwestern Europe to southeastern Europe.

The basic problem of farmers in the late nineteenth century was

overproduction of agricultural products and the subsequent decline in commodity prices.

This power meant that those newly elected could appoint people to jobs in their sphere of authority.

patronage