Chapter 16 quiz

The term gilded age describes which of the following

A period in which economic prosperity glossed over significant inequalities

Steel industry, giant

Andrew Carnegie

By 1890 the majority of America worked

As wage earners in a variety of different areas

The grange was an organization whose principal goal was to

Benefit and enhance the social and economic aspects of the agrarian lifestyle

Representing commercialize agriculture, and was large

Bonanza farm

Which of the following is true of farming in the trans Mississippi west

Bonanza farms came up, dominant in the region with most small farmers, becoming wage earners

Which of the following is true concerning Chinese immigration in the 19th century

By 1883 force, a Chinese immigrants lived in California were many worked on farms

Member of the Nez percé

Chief Joseph

Merit system for federal employees

Civil services act

Broke up, tribal lands in the small Parcells to be distributed to Indian families

Dawes act

Utopian, novelist

Edward Bellamy

Establish the Indians were not American citizens

Elk versus Wilkins

The interstate commerce commission was established in 1887 to

Ensure that railroads charge, farmers and merchants, responsibly and fair rates

The green back labor party favors, which of the following

Establishment of a national bank to control the money supply

The 19 century labor movement argued that

Extremities of wealth and property threaten democracy

It is expose how the other half lives Jacob Riis

Focus on the wretched conditions of New York slums

Meant covered in gold

Gilded

One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was

Greater disparity in the distribution of wealth, widening the gap between the rich and the poor

Why was William tweed so popular with the cities immigrant poor?

He provided food, fuel, and patron for them in exchange for their votes

Author of progress and poverty

Henry George

Buying out one's competition

Horizontal integration

How did expanding agriculture, production and foreign countries, and the American west lead to the migration of rural populations to cities?

Increasing output, worldwide, pay down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farms to make ends meet

According to the authors of the Dawes severalty act, what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later 19 century

Individualized, property ownership, and farming on family plots

Why did president James Buchenan replace Utah's territorial governor brigham Young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857

It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed

Which of the following is true of the Knights of labor

It was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms

Author of how the other half lives

Jacob riis

Oil, industry, giant

John D. Rochefeller

Why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve statehood?

Many Easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers, counterbalance, Latino and Mormon populations

Why was the Hollywood version of the western cowboy base more on fantasy than reality?

Most Cowboys were low, paid workers, some of whom even went on strike for a higher wages

Inventor of the electric motor

Nicola Tesla

Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between the government and the economy in the gilded age

Politicians of both major parties, favorite businesses and banks, and supported a reduction in many supply in a return to the gold standard

Which of the following is true of the social gospel

Promoted the idea that you are your brothers keeper

Which of the following is true of the impact of corporations on the American west

Scientific mining techniques, introduced by corporate engineers, displays independent prospers

Winner at the battle of bighorn

Sitting bull

Espouse the idea of survival of the fittest

Social Darwinism

Believe that equality of wealth was required for freedom

Social gospel

What criticism did Henry Lloyd make against Rockefeller standard oil and wealth against commonwealth?

Standard oil was undermining their competition in the market place

Head of the knights of labor

Terence Powderly

Which of the following best describes therstein veblens meaning of conspicuous consumption

The flaunting of wealth by the super rich

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the passage of the Sherman, antitrust act in 1890

The law was used in frequently, and was relatively ineffective and breaking up monopolies

The civil service act of 1883 did which of the following

They created a merit system for a limited number of government workers

Why did railroad companies and other businesses form pools during the gilded age?

They hope to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors

Which of the following properly assesses the direction of the Christian lobby in the gilded age

They sought to legislate mortality as away to improve society

Which of the following is true of the presidential electives during the gilded age?

They were closely consisted affairs with presidential candidates from swing or doubtful states

Inventor, who open the first electric generating system in Manhattan

Thomas Edison

Which of the following was a primary purpose of sending Native American children to the Carlson boarding school

To break Native American tradition, and assimilate them into American society

Function as a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly

Trusts

was a corrupt political machine

Tweed ring

Controlling every phase of a business

Vertical integration

The Supreme Court and Lochner versus New York

Voided a state law establishing that bankers could work at maximum of 60 hours per week

A figure of the social gospel movement

Walter rauschenbusch

The native American victory at the battle of bighorn

Was only a temporary reprieve from the advance of white settlement

Which of the following properly compares the US Supreme Court's approach to organization in business and labor during the gilded age

Well, the court of peeled the Sherman antitrust act to break down unions. It provided, largely unwilling to support the regulation of big businesses.

Credit mobilizer in the whiskey ring

Were symptomatic of the corruption of the age

Social Darwinist

William G. Sumner

Spending money to show off wealth

conspicuous consumption

Which of the following properly asserts the significance of wage labor in industrial American, during the gilded age

workers understood where is labor to be the key advantage of American industries over European competitors