HIST 1302 Week 1 Quiz

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Question 1

            The Grange was an organization that:                             

                       

·        pushed for the eight-hour day.

·        established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output.

·        pushed for railroads to acquire more land in the West.

·        sought to raise railroad rates.

·        opposed government regulation of shipping charges.

                                   

Question 2

How did the American Catholic Church act during the Gilded Age?                         

                       

·        Eager to ward off criticisms of “papal rule,” the American Catholic Church denounced the Vatican.

·        Overwhelmed by the radicals of largely Catholic southern European labor organizers, the Church distanced itself from its traditional stand for social justice and equality.

·        Afraid of a schism between wealthy and poor Catholics, the Church instead turned its attention to the defense of marriage and parental control.

·        American Catholics grew increasingly apart from their fellow believers in Europe.

·        The American Catholic Church saw a growing number of clergy advocate social justice and reform.

 

 

Question 3

Male farmers experienced the most hardship on the Great Plains, because farm women did not experience long days in the fields.                               

                       

o   True

o   False

                                   

Question 4

How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?                              

                       

·        Large banks were now able to locate in western railroad towns.

·        Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.

·        The expansion of trains increased the efficiency of small businesses.

·        The division of time into four zones allowed businesses to communicate by telegraph for the first time.

·        The adoption of a standard railroad gauge made private and federal land grants more available.

                                   

Question 5

Both Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes through vertical integration.                           

                                     

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 6

Why did railroad companies and other businesses form “pools” during the American Gilded Age?                               

                       

·        They wanted to share their assets in order to maintain liquidity in times of financial panic.

·        They were sharing patents for new technologies in the railroad industry.

·        They wanted to cut each other out from the market.

·        They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors.

·        They hoped to gather enough capital in a pool in order to buy out their largest and most dangerous competitor.

 

                       

Question 7

Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate?                              

                       

·        By 1880, three-fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.

·        Unlike Europeans, Chinese immigrants were too poor to send letters or money home to relatives.

·        Chinese immigrants rarely worked in western mines after the Civil War, thanks to Anglo resentment and the lack of demand for cheap labor.

·        Most women migrated east via the transcontinental railroad to work as domestics.

·        After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, most Chinese immigrants were unable to find additional work and returned to China.

 

                       

Question 8

Lochner v. New York voided a state law establishing ten hours per day, or sixty per week, as the maximum hours of work for bakers, claiming that it infringed on individual freedom.

                                                           

·        True

·        False

 

 

 

                       

Question 9

The new social order of the Gilded Age:                         

 

·        Prompted public discussion of class differences and debate among workingmen and farmers over political economy.

·        Ensured ongoing labor strife and deepening distrust between employees and employers.

·        Divided CEOs and stockholders into pro-labor and anti-labor camps.

·        A and B

·        B and C

 

Question 10

After the Haymarket Affair, employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals.                                  

                       

·        True

·        False

 

Question 11

The second industrial revolution was marked by:                                 

                       

·        a return to handmade goods.

·        the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.

·        a more equalized distribution of wealth.

·        a decline in the growth of cities.

·        the rapid expansion of industry across the South.

 

 

 

Question 12

The Plains Indians:                         

                       

·        Encouraged the influx of white settlers.

·        Were completely responsible for the near extinction of the buffalo.

·        Included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux.

·        Were treated fairly by the federal government.

·        Had lived in peace until the Civil War.

 

 

Question 13

One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was:                          

                       

·        higher prices.

·        the introduction of socialism.

·        a more equitable distribution of wealth.

·        frequent and prolonged economic depressions.

·        a more stable economy.

 

Question 14

Bonanza farms:                               

                       

·        were small, self-sufficient farms.

·        were the sharecropping farms found in the South.

·        typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

·        were free homesteads in California.

·        were settled along the railroad lines of the Union Pacific.

 

Question 15

The spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth.

                       

·        True

·        False

 

Question 16

What criticism did Henry Demarest Lloyd leverage against Rockefeller’s Standard Oil in Wealth against Commonwealth (1892)?

 

                       

·        Standard Oil was undermining fair competition in the marketplace.

·        Standard Oil was overcharging end-consumers of their products.

·        Rockefeller’s oil corporation was excessively competitive.

·        Standard Oil was employing more foreigners than Americans.

·        Rockefeller’s corporation was violating regulations at the New York stock market.

 

Question 17

The nineteenth-century labor movement argued that:

                                   

·        concentrated capital was not the enemy but that corrupt politicians were.

·        meaningful freedom could exist in conditions of economic inequality, but only if the government did not oppress workers.

·        extremes of wealth and poverty threatened democracy.

·        strikes and walkouts were exclusively a male preserve.

·        capital should be concentrated among the laborers.

 

 

 

Question 18

Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West?                         

                       

·        Lumber companies decimated coastal forests, inspiring the twentieth-century conservation movement.

·        Urban populations in California declined as people moved to the centers of agricultural production.

·        The necessary investments were beyond the means of the average farmer.

·        Scientific mining techniques introduced by corporate engineers displaced independent prospectors.

·        Communal landholdings in New Mexico were taken over by commercial farmers and ranchers.

 

                       

Question 19

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:

                       

·        focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.

·        provided a fictional account of life in 1890.

·        discussed the lives of wealthy Americans.

·        wrote about captains of industry.

·        highlighted the benefits of the second industrial revolution.

 

 

 

Question 20

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by “conspicuous consumption” is:                             

                       

·        Mrs. Bradley Martin’s costume ball.

·        John D. Rockefeller’s purchase of a competing company.

·        the social welfare services of European nations like Germany.

·        an immigrant’s purchase of bread.

·        the free services handed out by social reformers.