Chapter 24-25

Question 1

Which of the following did NOT lead to a greater productivity by farmers in the 19th century?

a. iron and steel plows
b. improved cotton
c. the use of new farm machinery, such as harvesters.
d. the rates charged by grain elevators

Answer 1

d

Question 2

In which supreme court case did the court rule that as long as property was “devoted to public use”, states could place regulations on the railroads for the good of the public.

a. Munn vs. Illinois
b. Peik Vs. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway
c. Illinois Vs. Wabash
d. Plessey vs. Ferguson

Answer 2

a

Question 3

Which industry, more than any other, became the symbol and source of agrarian discontent in the post Civil-War Period?

a. the insurance industry
b. railway companies
c. telephone and telegraph companies
d. banks

Answer 3

b

Question 4

At the end of the Civil War, the United States ranked fourth in Industrial output. Why?

a. petroleum production increased
b. GNP rose
c. Wheat and corn production increased
d. all of the above

Answer 4

d

Question 5

__was a United States federal law that gave an applicant a freehold title to 160 acre.

a. Sherman Antitrust Act
b. Chinese exclusion act
c. Homestead Act
d. Wilson- Gorman Act

Answer 5

c

Question 6

__ had rag to riches stories that popularized the notion that self-sacrafice, determination, and hard work would overcome poverty and result in financial success and social status.

a. Russell Conwell
b. William Sumner
c. Horatio Alger
d. Edward Bellamy

Answer 6

c

Question 7

In the “Gospel of Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie articulated the view that

a. the wealthy were morally obligated to use some of their wealth for improvement of society.
b. religious leaders had a responsibility to their worshippers.
c. the wealthy were entitled to their riches and had no responsibility to share it with others.
d. the poor should work harder to be wealthy

Answer 7

a

Question 8

The Industrial Workers of the World differed from the other major trade unions in that

a. it sought to negotiate and mediate its differences with management.
b. unlike the other unions, it disdained using boycotts and strikes against capital.
c. Its objective was to eliminate the private ownership of the means of production (radical spirit)
d. it was outlawed by the U.S. government.

Answer 8

c

Question 9

The __ was a labor demonstration organized to protest the treatment of workers at the McCormick Harvester factory as well as protesting alleged brutalities by the authorities.

a. Haymarket Square Riot
b. Railroad Strike 1877
c. Whiskey Ring
d. The United States vs. E.C. Knight Company

Answer 9

d

Question 10

__ was the “bankers’ banker”. He funded many corporations and helped rescue the American dollar.

a. Cornelius Vanderbilt
b. J.Pierpont Morgan
c. Samuel Gompers
d. Henry Frick

Answer 10

b

Question 11

Despite higher profits, the Carnegie steel company cut workers’ wages. This strike got so out of hand that the company tried to crush it by hiring Pinkerton Detective Agency. What was the name of this stike?

a. The Pullman Palace Car Company Strike
b. The Knights of Labor Strike
c. The Railroad Strike
d. The Homestead/Pennsylvania Strike

Answer 11

d

Question 12

The first important federal law aimed at regulating American industry was

a. the Federal Communications Act
b. the Pure Food and Drug Act
c. The Interstate Commerce Act.
d. The Federal Trade Commission

Answer 12

c

Question 13

__Was the first trade union to organize workers regardless of their race and gender, wether they were skilled or unskilled.

a. Knights of Labor
b. National Labor Union
c. American Federation of Labor
d. National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry.

Answer 13

a

Question 14

During the Industrial era reform was much needed. Therefore, legislation began addressing issues such as

a. housing
b. child labor
c. sanitation
d. all of the above

Answer 14

d

Question 15

In order to promote the interests of labor, trade unions would

a. stress the use of an open shop.
b. give subsistence wages to laborers.
c. make people sign yellow-dog contracts.
d. stress the use of a closed shop.

Answer 15

d

Question 16

To increase profits, a capitalist would

a. use gentlemen’s agreements, mergers, holding companies, and conglomerates.
b. only sell their commodities to one region.
c. raise prices to hurt their competition.
d. not look for new technological innovations.

Answer 16

a

Question 17

One of the most difficult problems generated by the rise of cities and the urban American life-style was

a. dealing with horses and other animals in crowded urban settings.
b. developing means of communication in densely populated city centers.
c. disposing of large quantities of consumer-generated waste material.
d. finding effective methods of high-rise construction for limited urban space.

Answer 17

c

Question 18

Which was a way in which Americans tried to get immigrants to assimilate to the American lifestyle?

a. public schools taught English
b. most non ethnic stores wold mainly american products.
c. many employers wanted their employers to speak English.
d. all of the above

Answer 18

d

Question 19

Besides providing direct services to the immigrants, the reformers of Hull Houses worked for general goals like

a. the secret ballot and direct election of senators
b. anti-sweatshop laws to protect women and child laborers
c. social security and unemployment compensation.
d. conservations and federal aid to municipal governments.

Answer 19

b

Question 20

How were the lives of immigrants restricted?

a. nativist groups proposed screening immigrants through literacy tests and other standards to separate the “desirable” from the “undesirable”.
b. the government made a list for the “undesirable: immigrants.
c. the government charged a 50 cent tax on each person who was admitted.
d. all of the above.

Answer 20

a

Question 21

The on immigration group tat was totally banned from America after 1882 as a result of nativist agitation was the

a. Irish
b. Greeks
c. Africans
d. Chinese

Answer 21

d

Question 22

The phrase “social gospel” refers to

a. reading the bible while working
b. the theory developed by religious liberal to reconcile Darwinian theories with the biblical views of human origins.
c. the efforts of some christian reformers to apply their religious beliefs to new social problems.
d. teaching family and friend’s religion.

Answer 22

c

Question 23

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used __ when writing for their newspapers.

a. theological ideals of the Fundamentalists.
b. yellow journalism
c. chemical theories of Charles Eliot
d. vadevilles

Answer 23

b

Question 24

__went on a lifelong war on the “immoral”.

a. Anthony Comstock
b. Florence Kelley
c. Mary Baker Eddy
d. Ida Wells

Answer 24

a

Question 25

The __ was a major boost to higher education in America.

a. Morrill Act of 1862
b. Anti Saloon Act
c. National Prohibition League
d. Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 25

a

Question 26

__ emphasized the idea that women should be able to vote because it was their right.

a. Carrie Chapman Catt
b. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
c. Carrie Nation
d. Francis Willard

Answer 26

b

Question 27

This organization, along with Francis Willard, lobbied for laws to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. They believed prohibition would cure society of a variety of ills, particularly poverty.

a. NAACP
b. National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry
c. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
d. The Anti-Saloon League

Answer 27

c

Question 28

Andrew Carnegie’s use of vertical integration was significant in that it

a. synthesized the various immigrant labor groups into one cohesive productive force.
b. led to substantial cooperation between industry and banking.
c. stimulated competition in the steel industry
d. allowed a capitalist to control all aspects of the production process.

Answer 28

d

Question 29

A __ is of two or more companies with similar product lines.

a. vertical merger
b. horizontal merger
c. conglomerate
d. stock market

Answer 29

b

Question 30

A __ is a labor contract in which an employee must agree not to join a union as a condition of holding the job.

a. gentlemen’s agreement
b. the black list
c. yellow dog contract
d. sensationalism

Answer 30

c

Question 31

The Knights of Labor was led and organized by

a. Terrence Powderly
b. Samuel Gompers
c. Henry Bowers.
d. Henry Frick

Answer 31

a

Question 32

In United Sates vs. E.C. Knight Company, the Supreme Court ruled that

a. trade unions that were on strike were in restraint of trade
b. monopolies such as the E.C. Knight Company were illegal combinations.
c. since the company was involved in production and not commerce, it fell under state jurisdiction.
d. monopolies were in restraint of trade.

Answer 32

c

Question 33

Workers had their own tactics in attempting to convince their employers to recognize their unions as legitimate collective bargaining agents. Of the following, what did they do?

a. they made use of the “sit down strike”
b. they used sabotage to destroy company property
c. unions picketed noncompliant businesses in the hope that the public would ally itself with the workers on strike.
d. all of the above

Answer 33

d

Question 34

__Wrote Sister Carrie. THis was novel was about a woman who escaped the rural life of Chicago by moving to the city to work

a. Theodore Dreiser
b. Walter Rauschenbusch
c. James Whistler
d. Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Answer 34

a