chapter 16 part 2
The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York
voided a state law establishing that bankers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week
The Greenback-Labor Party
wanted the federal government to stop taking money out of circulation
The Knights of Labor
was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
was evidence of worker solidarity and the close ties between industry and the Republican Party
The Haymarket Affair
was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally
Elections during the Gilded Age
were closely contested affairs.
The over 150 utopian and cataclysmic novels published during the last quarter of the nineteenth century
were inspired by the growing fear of class warfare
All of the following individuals wrote about the subject of America's poor EXCEPT:
Charles Darwin
The direction of the "Christian lobby" in the Gilded Age:
The "Christian lobby" sought more to legislate individual morality rather than to improve society.
Which statement about the theory of Social Darwinism is FALSE?
The theory argued that the "deserving poor" only included children.
The theory of Social Darwinism
The theory of Social Darwinism argued that: the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor.
Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring
Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed the Credit Mobilier construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad line, earning high dividends. When it was found out that government officials were paid stay quiet about the illicit business, some officials were censured. a group of officials were importing whiskey and using their offices to avoid paying the taxes on it, cheating the treasury out of millions of dollars.
Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required an equalization of wealth and power and that unbridled competition mocked the Christian ideal of brotherhood?
Walter Rauschenbusch
The Social Gospel
called for an equalization of wealth and power
In the late nineteenth century, social thinkers such as 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
The Civil Service Act of 1883
created a merit system for government workers
The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to
ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates
The Grange was an organization that
established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output
One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important is that
it underscored the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time
Republican economic policies strongly favored
northern industrialists
What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?
nothing
Henry George offered a(n) __________ as a solution for the problem of inequality in America
single tax
During the second industrial revolution, the courts
tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor