History Quiz 16

During the two decades following the Civil War, which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.

False

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.

False

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

False

Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive taxation.

False

In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except:

Irish Americans.

What was the book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes?

Progress and Poverty

The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

True

Which of the following was not a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?

federal income tax levels

Which was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?

low tariffs

What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?

the Knights of Labor

In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was:

the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent

Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?

1880

According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation's corporations.

False

The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire

False

Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Square

Which of the following was not a theme of Social Darwinism?

The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.

"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.

True

A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.

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 new American Indian tribes that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there.

False

The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable, and favoritism was avoided was:

The Interstate Commerce Commission.

Which of the following best describes the ?0ÒGhost Dance?1Ó?

feared by U.S. Army officials

According to Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by:

granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs.

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

False