US History 2 Midterm

By 1900, the per capita income of the South was ___________ that of the national average.

60 percent

Which of the following statements regarding race relations in the last years of the 19th century is most accurate?

Economic, legal, and social discrimination against blacks increased.

What is the term given to describe the ability of companies to afford technological improvements and the workforces to propel them into the modern age?

Economies of Scale

What invention spurred the industrial and urban development?

Electricity

Which of the following was not a goal of late 19th century progressives?

Equality for Minorities

_____________________ was the name for the African Americans who migrated West in search of social and economic opportunities.

Exodusters

After the Second Industrial Revolution, corporations tried their hands at

Farming

Which of the following was not a big business that attracted cheap laborers to their factories during the Progressive period?

Farming

The historian who developed the so-called frontier thesis was

Frederick Jackson Turner

The Cuban War for Independence against Spain lasted how long?

From 1895 to 1898

The section of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was concerned with the excesses of the time were known as the

Half-breeds

Which of the following statements regarding Theodore Roosevelt is untrue?

He had no interest in politics before running for the vice presidency.

Thanks to this man's invention, steel became substantially cheaper to make.

Henry Bessemer

The process Rockefeller used to gain control of his company's industry is known as Correct!

Horizontal Integration

The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for

Income tax

After the Civil War, what was the complaint about the federal tariff?

It was not forcing American companies to be competitive with their prices.

Which of the following is an example of a land grant college?

Kansas State University

The so-called grandfather clause originated in what state? Correct!

Louisiana

This early union was more interested in working to craft state laws important to their members than directly bargaining with employers.

National labor union

_____________________ was the name given to the violent racism against successful blacks that appeared in late 19th century.

Negrophobia

The rise of this ailment was used to try to keep women from attending college and out of the workplace.

Neurasthenia

John D. Rockefeller is best associated with which industry?

Oil

This replaced the spoils system for federal jobs with job placement on the basis of competitive testing.

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

Which political party during the Gilded Age promoted the plight of miners and farmers?

Populists

The new immigrants that arrived after 1890 to the United States were not primarily

Protestant

By 1897, the United States had more of this than all the European nations combined

Railroads

The Hawaiian ruler Queen Liliuokalani tried to do what in the early 1890s?

Restrict the growing political power of America in the islands

The father of the muckrakers, and their style of writing, could be considered

Samuel McClure

What was not a cause of the changes in recreation and leisure in the Gilded Age?

Sanitation Improvements

The area west of the Mississippi had room for all of the following except

Seafaring

President Theodore Roosevelt's presidential plan was called the

Square Deal

The faction of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was not concerned with the excesses of the time was known as the

Stalwarts

The first federal law passed to restrict immigration on the basis of race was

The Chinese Exclusion Act

What is the name of the U.S. battleship that famously sank in Havana Harbor in 1898?

The Maine

The Knights of Labor's decline began because of its perceived involvement in

The haymarket riot

What was a reason that married women were offered less pay during the Gilded Age?

The husbands supported them

Need for reforming the workplace was brought to national attention in 1911 when a fire broke out at

The triangle shirtwaist factory

The first "progressive" president was

Theodore Roosevelt

Why were trusts created?

To sidestep laws preventing one company from owning another

The treaty that ended the War of 1898 and made Cuba independent was the

Treaty of Paris

This legal entity allowed companies to sidestep laws that forbade them from owning stock in their competitors.

Trust

What is one thing that the United States had that other nations did not that helped spur the Industrial Revolution?

Vast natural resources

What was an example of the new types of entertainment that became popular during the Gilded Age?

Wild west traveling shows

Which of the following industries was the United States not a world leader in by 1900?

gold

Whites on the Hawaiian Islands were referred to as

haoles

When one company buys or forces out all of their competitors, it is participating in

horizontal integration

One of the first areas were people began to be interested in reforming society was aimed at

the tenements

Homestead strike ended with

the workers' union destroyed and their leaders imprisoned.

The groups behind the YWCA and YMCA created their programs because

they believed that Christianity had gotten too far from the lower economic classes.

Which of the following groups did not fight in the War of 1898?

Dominicans

By the 1890s, the largest ethnic population in Hawaii was

Asians

More than 200,000 _______________________ arrived in California between 1876 and 1890.

Chinese

Which of the following was not a cause of industrial growth in the era following the Civil War?

a resurging southern economy

In cities during the Gilded Age, the political process was usually controlled by ________, and their organizations were known as _________.

bosses, machines

Because of the Roosevelt-Taft feud, Theodore Roosevelt decided to

break a pledge he had made to not seek another term in office.

President Theodore Roosevelt accomplished the majority of his progressive agenda

by convincing Congress to pass legislation.

According to your textbook, the post-Civil War West symbolized

economic opportunity and personal freedom

Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis ignored all of the following groups except

white men