LUOA-U. S. History-Test Guide for Module 6-In lesson questions

Between 1865 and 1897, the national railway network grew from 35,000 to almost _________ miles of track.

200,000

About what percentage of American cowboys were African Americans?

25%

According to the lesson, approximately how many African-Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?

300,000

According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?

84

Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

A 10% pay cut among many rail company workers.

According to the lesson, what was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?

A growing population and the availability of cheap labor.

Which of the following individual is famous for inventing the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

Which of the following best describes most American's attitude concerning political parties during the Gilded Age?

Americans were extremely loyal to their party.

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?

Andrew Carnegie

Which of the following Southern cities became the largest producer of coal and steel in the South?

BIrmingham, Alabama

Which of the following was the greatest contributing factor in the defeat of William Jennings Bryan in the Election of 1896?

Bryan failed to appeal to immigrants and working poor in the midwest.

In the 1870s, Democrats in the South reorganized the party platform as a _______________ movement.

Conservative

Although Samuel Tilden received the majority of the popular vote and seemed ahead in the Electoral College, what created controversy regarding the outcome of the election?

Contested Electoral votes from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.

Which of the following best describes the campaign of William Jennings Bryan in the Election of 1896?

Energetic and active

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Civil Service Commission, established in 1883?

Ensure that all federal jobs be appointed by a merit system.

Which of the following religious groups tended to identify with Republicans during the Gilded Age?

Evangelicals

Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?

Germany

Which of the following best describes President Cleveland's response to labor strikes in his second term?

He opposed them, sometimes with force.

Which of the following best describes T. McCants Stewart's experience as an African American visiting the South in the 1880s?

He was surprised to find relative acceptance and freedom.

Which U.S. city was first founded as a mining boomtown?

Helena, Montana

Which of the following was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who wrote an article detailing his vision for "The New South?"

Henry W. Grady

Which of the following best describes the management structure of most big businesses during the Gilded Age?

Hierarchical

What was the name of the mining technique that used high pressure water cannons to break away hillsides and reveal valuable minerals?

Hydraulic Mining

Which of the following best describes what Western miners and farmers called the "Crime of '73?"

In 1873, Republicans in Congress stopped the production of silver coins

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, which President Hayes attempted but failed to block with his veto?

Increase the money supply by minting more coins.

What best describes the provisions of the Contract Labor Act of 1864?

It allowed the Federal government to pay for an immigrant's passage to the United States.

Which of the following individuals gained significant profits from Cleveland's decision to allow the Treasury to borrow money from Wall Street investment bankers?

J. P. Morgan

Which of the following built the American Tobacco Company, which came to control 75 percent of all tobacco manufacturing by 1904?

James B. Duke

Which of the following individuals became the People's Party nominee for President in the Election of 1892?

James B. Weaver

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

John D. Rockefeller

Which of the following individuals coined the term "Gilded Age?"

Mark Twain

According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?

Pennsylvania

Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingman's Party of California?

Restrict Chinese immigration.

Which of the following Presidents campaigned on a promise to fight corruption after Grant's scandal-filled term in office?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1886 to 1924?

Samuel Gompers

Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the "Granger laws," established by members of the Granger Movement after 1874?

Set maximum prices for transporting and storing farmers' produce

Which of the following issues became the main focus of the Election of 1888?

Tariff Reform

What was the name of multifamily dwellings in many American cities that were usually between four and six stories high and housed dozens of families?

Tenements

What organization came alongside Eugene V. Debs in the Pullman Strike?

The American Railway Union

What was the result of the Election of 1876 and why did it require the Compromise of 1877 to resolve?

The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.

What was the main persuasive goal of the "Cross of Gold" Speech?

The Federal Government should allow the unlimited coinage of silver.

Laws that disenfranchised blacks and circumvented which Constitutional Amendment?

The Fourteenth Amendment

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following U.S. Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?

The Justice Departement

Which of the following labor unions had a radical, utopian vision of an economic system based on cooperation rather than competition?

The Knights of Labor

The most important and influential secret society that arose in the South to oppose Radical Reconstruction was?

The Ku Klux Klan

What event in 1873 shifted the focus of the Republicans to economic matters and created a depression that lasted for six years?

The Panic of 1873

Which of the following incidents set off a nationwide panic that led to the Depression of 1893?

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroads declared bankruptcy

On May 1, 1866, the Knights of Labor organized a one-day general strike of 340,000 workers that eventually led to the Haymarket Affair. What was the goal of that strike?

The establishment of an 8 hour workday.

Which of the following remained one of the most important crops in Virginia and the upper South after the Civil War?

Tobacco

According to the lesson, the Depression of 1893, brought the most harm to which of the following groups?

Western Farmers

In the midterm election, the People's Party lost much of its support from which of the following groups to the influence of the Democratic Party?

White Southerners

Which of the following individuals did the Populists nominate for President in the Election of 1896?

William Jennings Bryan