History 102 Chapter 16
The United States underwent one of the most rapid and profound economic revolutions any country has ever experienced. Which of the following is a major factor?
Abundance of natural resources
American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.
False
During the two decades following the Civil War, which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.
False
In 1879, for the first time since the Civil War, the United States departed from the gold standard.
False
In the late 1800s, Protestants attempted reforms to "stamp out sin," yet were tolerant of businesses opening on Sundays.
False
The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.
False
With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
False
In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except
Irish-Americans
The author of How the Other Half Lives (1890) was
Jacob Riis
What was the name of the organization that sought to organize workers - both skilled and unskilled, women as well as men, blacks along with whites - and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
Knights of Labor
Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's company?
Standard Oil
The poem by Emma Lazarus including "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" is located on which American landmark?
Statue of Liberty
In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
Steel
"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.
True
By 1890, the vast majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states.
True
By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.
True
By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and their children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
True
Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the American Indian economy.
True
In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.
True
On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 American Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
True
The first national labor walkout occurred in 1877 and was the Great Railroad Strike.
True
The event marking the end of four centuries of armed conflict between the continent's native population and European settlers and their descendants was called
Wounded Knee.
In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from
a derogatory term found in literature for an object that is covered in a layer of gold that masks a core of little value.
Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance"?
a pan-Indian movement which involved singing, dancing, and religious observances believed to be reminiscent of earlier prophets
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was
an entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians.
In the late 1800s, this geographic area experienced the most dramatic growth in capitalism.
land west of the Mississippi river
The new agricultural empire producing wheat and corn for national and international markets arose
on the Middle Border.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs established boarding schools for the purpose of
removing Indian children from their parents and tribes and assimilating them into "white ways"
The belief that private control of economic enterprises should be replaced by government ownership in order to ensure a fairer distribution of the benefits of the wealth produced is called
socialism
Legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director are called
trusts
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
"Cooperative Commonwealth"