Chapters 20-25

Question 0

During the gilded age, were the democrats and republicans more different or similar?

Answer 0

Similar. They had few significant economic differences

Question 1

What was the principal target of Thomas Nast’s cartoons?

Answer 1

Boss Tweeds

Question 2

From the end of reconstruction to 1900 what was the position of the Supreme Court on civil rights?

Answer 2

They established the constitutionality of segregation

Question 3

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v ferguson upheld the segregation of what?

Answer 3

Railroad facilities

Question 4

During reconstruction, what jobs did southern blacks typically have?

Answer 4

They tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers

Question 5

What best describes the urban political machine of the late 19th century?

Answer 5

Organizations controlled by politicians who dispenses jobs and other patronage in return for political support.

Question 6

What did the election of the 1870s and 1880s do?

Answer 6

Aroused great interest among voters

Question 7

What was the 1884 election between James G Blaine and Grover Cleveland noted for?

Answer 7

It’s personal attacks on the two candidates

Question 8

At the end of reconstruction, what did southern whites disenfranchise African Americans with?

Answer 8

Literacy requirements
Poll taxes
Economic intimidation
Grandfather clauses

Question 9

The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called what?

Answer 9

Jim Crow laws

Question 10

What was not implemented by the radical republicans during reconstruction?

Answer 10

Provisions of 40 acres to each freedman

Question 11

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education essentially reversed what earlier decision?

Answer 11

Plessy v ferguson

Question 12

How did the early populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers end?

Answer 12

A racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the south

Question 13

Who was Thomas Nast?

Answer 13

Political cartoonist

Question 14

Who was Horace greeley?

Answer 14

News paper editor and presidential candidate

Question 15

Who was Roscoe Conkling?

Answer 15

U.S. Senator and Stalwart leader

Question 16

Who was William Marcy Tweed?

Answer 16

Corrupt Tammany Hall politician in New York City

Question 17

What is not true of railroad expansion in the late 19th century?

Answer 17

It was financed by private corporations WITHOUT government assistance. (This is not true. Railroads used government assistance)

Question 18

What is not associated with the Vanderbilt family?

Answer 18

Purchase of U.S. Steel

Question 19

What industry did Carnegie work in?

Answer 19

Steel

Question 20

What industry did Rockefeller work in?

Answer 20

Oil

Question 21

What industry did Duke work in?

Answer 21

Tobacco

Question 22

What industry did Morgan work in?

Answer 22

Banking

Question 23

What is true of politics in the Gilded age?

Answer 23

Corrupt politics
Capitalist greed in industry
Extravagant mansions and lavish parties
Child labor in factories and coal mines

Question 24

What was the greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post Civil War years?

Answer 24

Steel industry

Question 25

The horizontal integration of American industry (I.e., one firm acquiring control of other firms that produce the same product) that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century was primarily a response to what?

Answer 25

Economic completions

Question 26

The people who found daly with the "captains of industry" mostly argued what?

Answer 26

These men built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers

Question 27

What is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT true concerning John D Rockefeller?

Answer 27

He loaned gold to the U.S. treasury in 1895.

Question 28

Who said" the good lord gave me my money?"

Answer 28

John d Rockefeller

Question 29

Who said " the public be damned?"

Answer 29

William Vanderbilt (the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt)

Question 30

Who said " the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced "

Answer 30

Andrew Carnegie

Question 31

Who said" give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?"

Answer 31

Emma Lazarus

Question 32

Who said" show me the country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country in which there is no liberty"

Answer 32

Samuel Gompers

Question 33

The Supreme Court in the late 19th century interpreted the Constitution to favor what?

Answer 33

Corporations

Question 34

What amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by the state?

Answer 34

Fourteenth amendment

Question 35

What group was most affected by the new Industrial Age?

Answer 35

Women.

Question 36

What is not true of labor in the late19th century ?

Answer 36

Minimum wage and maximum hour laws were widely enacted

Question 37

``` Which of these leaders was not a leader in labor movements in the late 19th century century? Mother jones Terence Powderly Samuel Gompers John L Lewis ```

Answer 37

John L Lewis.

Question 38

What was the most effective and most enduring labor union of the post civil war era?

Answer 38

American Federation of labor

Question 39

The hay market square root represented a major set back for what labor group?

Answer 39

Knights of labor

Question 40

What is true of the American labor movement in the late 19th century?

Answer 40

It was involved with several violent strikes

Question 41

What is true considering the American Federation of labor?

Answer 41

It considered the strike its strongest weapon

Question 42

What is NOT true of events that happened at Ellis Island

Answer 42

Last names of immigrants were frequently changed by the immigration officials

Question 43

Why was there a sharp increase of immigrants from 1880-1910?

Answer 43

Many southern and Eastern Europeans turned to American for financial gains and political freedom

Question 44

The new immigrants who came to the U.S. After 1880 were what?

Answer 44

Culturally different from previous immigrants

Question 45

Why did natives not like the immigrants?

Answer 45

Practiced different religions Had different language and cultures We're willing to work for lower wages We're not familiar with the U.S. Political system

Question 46

Where did immigrants in the last quarter of the 19th century come from?

Answer 46

European farms and villages in east Europe and Italy

Question 47

Name some famous American Architects

Answer 47

Thomas Jefferson Louis Sullivan Frank Lloyd wright Henry Richardson

Question 48

Who wrote "the gilded age"

Answer 48

Mark Twain

Question 49

Who wrote "Sister Carrie"

Answer 49

Theodore Dreiser

Question 50

Who wrote "o captain my captain"

Answer 50

Walt Whitman

Question 51

Who wrote "principles of psychology "

Answer 51

William James

Question 52

What was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the 19th century?

Answer 52

Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.

Question 53

What were W.E.B. DuBois's objectives?

Answer 53

Total enfranchisement of all eligible black citizens The establishment of an organization to seek the legal redress of black grievances The establishment of black political power Cooperation with whites

Question 54

What did Booker T Washington promote?

Answer 54

Black self help but did not challenge segregation

Question 55

What are associated with WeB Dubois ?

Answer 55

Niagara movement The souls of the black folk NAACP Talented tenth

Question 56

What was the disagreement between WEB Du Bois and Booker T Washington regarding the status of African-Americans in the early 20th century?

Answer 56

Whether African-Americans should first seek legal or economical equality with white Americans

Question 57

The talented 10th of American blacks Shoukd lead the race to social and politically equality with whites was the view of whom?

Answer 57

W E B DuBois

Question 58

In his 1895 Atlanta exposition speech Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to strive for success through what?

Answer 58

Education and economic independence

Question 59

What is not associated with Booker T. Washington?

Answer 59

The talented 10th

Question 60

What is Tamany Hall?

Answer 60

The corrupt government of New York

Question 61

The passage of the Pendleton act was a direct result of what?

Answer 61

Garfield's assassination

Question 62

What caused the United States to change ticket to standard time zones

Answer 62

The railroads demanding a better time frame

Question 63

"The growth of the large business is merely the survival of the fittest "is attributed to what idea

Answer 63

Social Darwinism