chapter 16/17 APUSH

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In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was

Herbert Spencer.

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?

James J. Hill

In his books, Horatio Alger

emphasized the value of personal character in business.

In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was

$290

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

they were not fit enough to survive in the market.

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.

In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"

was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

often found work doing domestic tasks

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

The Pennsylvania Railroad was created by

the Pennsylvania Steel Company.

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.

The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

vertical integration.

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

Yurok

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

In the late nineteenth century, fences for Plains farms were usually made from

barbed wire.

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all.

The Knights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization.

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.

During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States

increased significantly.

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864

involved the killing of Indian women and children.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

labor union in the coal industry.

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,

laborers could expect to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week.

In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

led the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

led to a diversification of research interests.

During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

The open-hearth process of making steel

made the production of large-dimension pieces possible

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility

During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life

often lacked any access to the outside world.

In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,

one percent of corporations controlled one-third of all manufacturing.

In Owen Wister's novel, The Virginian (1902), the American cowboy was

portrayed as a simple and virtuous frontiersman

William Cody's Wild West shows

proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States.

Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law

put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.

During the nineteenth century, in the Far West the term "coolie"

referred to Chinese indentured servants.

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland

reflected the growing disillusionment of western farmers

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks.

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

Mining in the West

saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.

In 1917, automobile production in the United States

saw nearly five million cars on American roads.

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

Chinese tongs were

secret societies

In the mid-1880s, the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of

severe weather.

In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT

the automobile industry.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were

the most widespread of the Indian groups in the West.

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

the moving assembly line.

The western farmers' first and most burning grievance was against

the railroads.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the total failure of state and federal governments to pass legislation that would protect the rights of workers.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Before 1860, the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians partly as

wards of the president of the United States.

In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West

was a result of many factors, but the most important was the railroad.

The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn

was a short-lived Indian victory.

The Dawes Act of 1887

was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers

The Homestead Act of 1862

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.

By the mid-1840s, the American West

was extensively populated

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut.

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism.

In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between

white American ranchers and farmers.

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was

Arizona.

The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was

Abilene, Kansas.

During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States