chapter 16 apush

Every Republican candidate for president from 1868 to 1900 except for James G. Blaine had fought in the Confederate army in the Civil War.

False -Every Republican candidate for president from 1868 to 1900 except for James G. Blaine had fought in the Union army in the Civil War.

In 1879, the United States went off the gold standard to help debt-ridden farmers.

False -In 1879 the United States returned to the gold standard by which currency was exchangeable with gold at a fixed rate.

Identify the statements that describe the political scene in the United States during the Gilded Age.

-Americans during the Gilded Age saw the country as an island of democracy in a world dominated by undemocratic governments -Powerful new corporations raised disturbing questions about the American understanding of political freedom and self-government.

Identify the statements that describe liberal reformers during the Gilded Age.

-Liberal reformers feared that as lower classes looked to use government to further their own interests, democracy was becoming a threat to individual liberty and the rights to property. -Some liberal reformers urged a return to property qualifications for voting.

In Gilded Age America, dissatisfaction with the new social order extended beyond the working class and into the middle class. Some of the most popular works of literature in the era concerned the crumbling social order or the means of fixing it. Match the authors to their literary contributions.

-Looking Backward: Edward Bellamy -The Cooperative Commonwealth: Laurence Gronlund --Progress and Poverty: Henry George

Identify the statements that describe examples of Christian moral reform and its successful attempts to stamp out sin.

-Mann Act of 1910 -Gambling, prostitution, polygamy, and birth control were all targets of the legislation attempts to control or eliminate by Evangelical Christians in the Gilded Age. -Christian Temperance Union

Identify the statements that describe the Knights of Labor.

The Knights of Labor included women in its membership.

Between the end of the Civil War and the early twentieth century, the United States experienced stagnant economic growth and the loss of international markets.T or F?

false

As the United States matured into an industrial economy, Americans struggled to make sense of a new social order that included "better classes," "respectable classes," and "dangerous classes." Identify the statements that describe the nation's social problems during the Gilded Age.

-There was a growing permanent factory population living on the edge of poverty alongside a growing class of millionaires, which posed a sharp challenge to traditional definitions of freedom. -Throughout the United States, state and local governments set up investigative committees to inquire into the relations between labor and capital in the face of increasing unrest.

Identify the statements that describe working conditions and policies during the Gilded Age in America.

-"The miner's freedom" consisted of work rules that left skilled miners free of managerial supervision on the job. -Many industrial workers labored with no pensions, compensation for injuries, or protections against unemployment.

Identify the statements that describe "robber barons."

-Ironically, many of the "robber barons" rose from modest backgrounds and seemed examples of how creative genius and business sense enabled Americans to seize success. -John D. Rockefeller was considered by many to be the worst of the robber barons.

In 1893, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner gave a celebrated lecture, "The Insignificance of the Frontier in American History," in which he argued the West had acted as a destabilizing and chaotic force in American history.

False -Turner argued that the West defined many of the qualities we value as Americans: individual freedom, political democracy, and economic mobility. He argued the frontier had acted as a safety valve, drawing off those dissatisfied with their situation and allowing for them to change their circumstances.

Most of the farms on the Great Plains were bonanza farms that covered thousands of acres and employed large numbers of agricultural wage workers.

False -While there were a few bonanza farms, most of the farms west of the Mississippi were still small, family farms. Even these farms had become more commercially oriented as they were connected to the wider world and its markets by the railroads.

Identify the statements that describe the economy of the United States during the Gilded Age.

Over half of all American industrial workers worked in factories with more than 250 employees.In 1913, the United States' industrial output was the largest of any single industrialized nation in the world.

Gilded Age national politics did not entirely lack accomplishments. Some reform legislation were passed. Match the legislation that was passed during the Gilded Age with the correct description.

banned all combinations and practices that restrained free trade - Sherman Antitrust Act established to ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable rates and did not offer better treatment to some shippers -Interstate Commerce Commission created a merit-based system for federal employees, with appointment via competitive testing rather than political appointment- Civil Service Act of 1883

According to Social Darwinism, the evolutionary process in humans was based on the survival of communities working together. Democratic Social Darwinists wanted the state to be the means of alleviating poverty to ensure the survival of the community. T or F?

false

Between 1860 and 1880, the number of railroad track miles tripled in the United States and tripled again by 1920. By the 1890s, five transcontinental lines transported products from coast to coast.

false

The conquest of the American West was a unique phenomenon in global history, whereby settlers moved boldly into the interior of regions of a great continent with a temperate climate, bringing their families, crops, and livestock, and establishing mining and other industries. T or F

false

Between 1860 and 1880, the number of railroad track miles tripled in the United States and tripled again by 1920. By the 1890s, five transcontinental lines transported products from coast to coast.

true

The Knights of Labor were the first group to try to organize unskilled and skilled labor, both men and women, and black and white, though they gave into West Coast racism and excluded the despised immigrants from Asia on the West Coast. T or F?

true