GML Chapter 16 T/F
By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows and children, consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
True
According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation's corporations.
False
American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.
False
At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.
False
During the two decades following the Civil War which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.
False
Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth, which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society.
False
The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.
False
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.
False
The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.
False
The West was a remarkably homogeneous region—only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.
False
The new Indian tribes that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there.
False
With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
False
Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive, taxation.
False
"Vertically integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.
True
A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.
True
By the 1880s, the labor situation was as such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.
True
Following the Civil War generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the Indian economy.
True
In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.
True
In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.
True
Inspired in part by President Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees,
True
Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.
True
On 29 December 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, most women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
True
The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing officeholding from the hands of political machines.
True
The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
True
The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.
True
The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.
True
The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.
True
The most famous Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.
True
The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York, in which the Court voided the state's law establishing a 10-hour day maximum for bakers.
True
Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.
True
