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The politics of the Gilded Age was said to be:
A time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments
How is Standard Oil depicted in the magazine "Puck," illustrating the company as a dangerous monopoly?
An octopus
Which of the following was NOT true of the second industrial revolution?
Boom in automobile spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production
The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the...
Gilded Age
All of the following were Captains of Industry except:
Grover Cleveland
Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?
He had provided food, fuel, and patronage in exchange for their votes
In the late nineteenth century, the Republican party found particularly strong support among all of the following except:
Irish-Americans
Which city became the world's center for iron and steel manufacturing?
Pittsburgh
Which mode of transportation is usually associated with the second industrial revolution?
Railroads
How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?
Railroads created a true national market for U.S 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 competitors
The Civil Service Act of 1883 required
applicants for government jobs to pass examinations
Political machines dominated politics, at the level, by placing their hand picked candidates in high positions such as mayor. They call these people
bosses
Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves...
buying out raw material producers and distributors
The Social Gospel:
called for the assistance to the urban poor
In the late nineteenth century, middle class social thinkers such as Walter Rauschen busch, Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Laurence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change, primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of:
class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital
After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range?
cowboys
For workers, the second industrial revolution meant all of the following except:
decrease in child labor
Republican economic policies strongly favored
eastern industries and bankers
Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?
electricity
The Interstate Commerce Commission, established in 1887, was the first federal agency to:
ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates
One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was
frequent and prolonged economic depressions
Social Darwinism was used to justify all of the following except:
government regulation of business
The federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late 19th century by:
granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs
In what type of organization do companies producing the same product merge?
horizontal integration
Thomas Edison:
invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity
All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age except:
low tariffs
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877; Haymarket Affair of 1886; Homestead Strike of 1892. The primary cause of the labor strikes in this list was the
low wages of workers compared to factory owners
The economic development of the American West was based on:
lumber, mining industries, tourism, and farming
What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?
nothing at all
The Sherman Antitrust Act:
outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade
Which of the following was not a business strategy of Carnegie, Rockefeller, or other industrial magnates of the late 19th century?
paid their workers high wages
Thomas Nast was noted for which of the following activities ?
published political cartoons that exposed corrupt political activities in New York City
The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit...
railroad companies and train travelers
The _____ made possible the second industrial revolution in America.
railroads
Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor
restricted membership to only skilled workers
The invention of the telephone changed the nature of work by
speeding up the pace of business transactions
During the second industrial revolution, the courts:
tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor
What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
the Knights of Labor
The industrial Revolution in the United States took place principally in:
the Northeast and the Midwest
The second industrial revolution was marked by:
the acceleration of factory production, a boom of railroad industry, and steel production
The spirit of innovation contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late century. Which of the following was NOT an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?
the airplane
What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
the invention of the elevator and steel framework
In 1863, _____ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today.
the major railroad companies
The theory of Social Darwinism argued that
the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor
Bonanza farms were:
typically comprised of 3,000 acres of land or more
In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were...
ways manufacturers sought to control the marketplace
Elections during the Gilded Age:
were closely contested affairs
Crédit Mobiler was the Whiskey Ring:
were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration
By 1980, the majority of Americans:
worked for wages