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• Question 1
The Grange was an organization that:
a.
pushed for the eight-hour day.
b.
established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output.
c.
pushed for railroads to acquire more land in the West.
d.
sought to raise railroad rates.
e.
opposed government regulation of shipping charges.
• Question 2
How did the American Catholic Church act during the Gilded Age?
a.
Eager to ward off criticisms of “papal rule,” the American Catholic Church denounced the Vatican.
b.
Overwhelmed by the radicals of largely Catholic southern European labor organizers, the Church distanced itself from its traditional stand for social justice and equality.
c.
Afraid of a schism between wealthy and poor Catholics, the Church instead turned its attention to the defense of marriage and parental control.
d.
American Catholics grew increasingly apart from their fellow believers in Europe.
e.
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.
True
False
• Question 4
How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?
a.
Large banks were now able to locate in western railroad towns.
b.
Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.
c.
The expansion of trains increased the efficiency of small businesses.
d.
The division of time into four zones allowed businesses to communicate by telegraph for the first time.
e.
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?
a.
They wanted to share their assets in order to maintain liquidity in times of financial panic.
b.
They were sharing patents for new technologies in the railroad industry.
c.
They wanted to cut each other out from the market.
d.
They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors.
e.
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?
a.
By 1880, three-fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.
b.
Unlike Europeans, Chinese immigrants were too poor to send letters or money home to relatives.
c.
Chinese immigrants rarely worked in western mines after the Civil War, thanks to Anglo resentment and the lack of demand for cheap labor.
d.
Most women migrated east via the transcontinental railroad to work as domestics.
e.
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:
a.
prompted public discussion of class differences and debate among workingmen and farmers over political economy.
b.
ensured ongoing labor strife and deepening distrust between employees and employers.
c.
divided CEOs and stockholders into pro-labor and anti-labor camps.
d.
A and B
e.
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.
a return to handmade goods.
b.
the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.
c.
a more equalized distribution of wealth.
d.
a decline in the growth of cities.
e.
the rapid expansion of industry across the South.
• Question 12
The Plains Indians:
a.
encouraged the influx of white settlers.
b.
were completely responsible for the near extinction of the buffalo.
c.
included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux.
d.
were treated fairly by the federal government.
e.
had lived in peace until the Civil War.
• Question 13
One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was:
a.
higher prices.
b.
the introduction of socialism.
c.
a more equitable distribution of wealth.
d.
frequent and prolonged economic depressions.
e.
a more stable economy.
• Question 14
Bonanza farms:
a.
were small, self-sufficient farms.
b.
were the sharecropping farms found in the South.
c.
typically had thousands of acres of land or more.
d.
were free homesteads in California.
e.
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)?
a.
Standard Oil was undermining fair competition in the marketplace.
b.
Standard Oil was overcharging end-consumers of their products.
c.
Rockefeller’s oil corporation was excessively competitive.
d.
Standard Oil was employing more foreigners than Americans.
e.
Rockefeller’s corporation was violating regulations at the New York stock market.
• Question 17
The nineteenth-century labor movement argued that:
a.
concentrated capital was not the enemy but that corrupt politicians were.
b.
meaningful freedom could exist in conditions of economic inequality, but only if the government did not oppress workers.
c.
extremes of wealth and poverty threatened democracy.
d.
strikes and walkouts were exclusively a male preserve.
e.
capital should be concentrated among the laborers.
• Question 18
Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West?
a.
Lumber companies decimated coastal forests, inspiring the twentieth-century conservation movement.
b.
Urban populations in California declined as people moved to the centers of agricultural production.
c.
The necessary investments were beyond the means of the average farmer.
d.
Scientific mining techniques introduced by corporate engineers displaced independent prospectors.
e.
Communal landholdings in New Mexico were taken over by commercial farmers and ranchers.
• Question 19
In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:
a.
focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.
b.
provided a fictional account of life in 1890.
c.
discussed the lives of wealthy Americans.
d.
wrote about captains of industry.
e.
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:
a.
Mrs. Bradley Martin’s costume ball.
b.
John D. Rockefeller’s purchase of a competing company.
c.
the social welfare services of European nations like Germany.
d.
an immigrant’s purchase of bread.
e.
the free services handed out by social reformers.
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