APUSH CH 17/18 QUIZZES

Question 1

during the gilded age, what did most successful business tycoons claim as the main reason for their success and was it true?

Answer 1

hard work/thrift and no

Question 2

what term (other than survival of the fittest) has been given to herbert spencer’s ideas that society should encourage the “elimination” of the poor and unfit?

Answer 2

social darwinism

Question 3

what was one american author or speaker that promoted the idea that anyone could become rich, if they made use of opportunities and were willing to work hard?

Answer 3

horatio alger

Question 4

what political party provided the most radical alternative to capitalist system of the gilded age?

Answer 4

socialist labor party

Question 5

what is the theme of all of horatio alger’s novels?

Answer 5

individual advancement through pluck and luck

Question 6

what was one change in transport during the 1870s and 1880s that allowed US agricultural products to be sold world wide?

Answer 6

high speed freighters

Question 7

as the steel industry grew in the great lakes region of the US, what other industry developed in western pennsylvania, ohio, and west virginia?

Answer 7

the iron industry

Question 8

the internal combustion engine was critical to the devlopment of automobile, what other 20th century revolution in transport required internal combustion engine for its success?

Answer 8

the plane

Question 9

what did henry ford popularize in 1914?

Answer 9

assembly line

Question 10

what individuals did the most to consolidate the oil industry in ohio and pennsylvania during the gilded age?

Answer 10

john d. rockefeller

Question 11

during the late 1870s who led the knights of labor, increasing # of people in the union?

Answer 11

Powderly

Question 12

in addition to job insecurity and poverty, what was another specific aspect of factory work that many 1st generation factory workers found challenging?

Answer 12

they found work taxing

Question 13

What violent labor protest in Chicago in May 1886 turned most Americans against labor unions by associating labor unions with anarchism

Answer 13

haymarket bombing

Question 14

What labor dispute began in Chicago in 1894 when a factory cut wages without reducing the rent on the company owned houses where the workers lived?

Answer 14

Pullman’s Strike

Question 15

What percent of the population of major cities such as Chicago or New York was made up of immigrants?

Answer 15

80 to 87%

Question 16

What was the first group of people banned from immigrating to the US?

Answer 16

Chinese immigrants

Question 17

What kind of people would generally be the ones organizing the creation of museums concert halls and other cultural centers in gilded age cities?

Answer 17

Wealthy residents

Question 18

From the middle class what transportation Innovacion made it possible to live on the edges of big cities, in suburban.

Answer 18

Subway

Question 19

What federal agency was created in 1912 in a failed attempt to prevent accidents in the spread of disease in urban factories?

Answer 19

Public health service

Question 20

Disease tended to spread very rapidly in gilded age cities because city leaders generally failed to connect disease with what other problem?

Answer 20

Inadequate sewage disposal and poor sanitation

Question 21

During the Gilded Age what kind of new large store was designed to make shopping glamorous and exciting first example of such a store was pioneered by Marshall Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Answer 21

Department stores

Question 22

What was one specific response of city leaders to the problem of rising crime in the cities?

Answer 22

Creation of larger, more professional police forces.