Test #1

Question 1

Why did businessmen like social darwinism?

Answer 1

-Placed their activites under traditional american ideas, resulting in freedom, tactics, and individulism
-justified business practices and finance

Question 2

The Gospel of Wealth

Answer 2

-Less harsh version of social darwinism
-Created by Andrew Carnegie
-all healthy should consider all revenues in excess of their own needs as “trust funds” to be used for community benefits
-Believed industrialists should donate money for philanthropic works (library, schools)

Question 3

Russell Conwell

Answer 3

-Baptist minister
-Popular notion: “great wealth is something availableto all”
-Spokesman for speech “Acres of Diamonds” (about people finding wealth in their own backyards)

Question 4

Horatio Alger

Answer 4

-Promoter of story “Patterns of Popular Culture”
-Was gay in private because of time period
-Didn’t come out in fear that it would interfere with his leadership

Question 5

Lester Frank Ward

Answer 5

-Socialist, believed in darwinism, but not to human society
-Believed civilization was goverened by human intelligence, not natural selection

Question 6

Unions- Political Change

Answer 6

-Safety in the workplace
-Overtime pay
-Breaks = state lawas
-Obamacare/Medicare
-Harrasment/discrimination laws
-Child labor laws
-Minimum wage
-Retirement (social security)
-FMLA (maternity/paternity leave)

Question 7

Problems of the city

Answer 7

-Poverty
-Higher crime rate
-Garbage
-Sewage
-Clean water
-Fire/gun control
-Disease
-Air pollution

Question 8

Environmental

Answer 8

-More government= in bigger cities/more taxes
-Public education- Morrill Act

Question 9

Specator sports

Answer 9

Theaters- live performances replaced by a movie

Question 10

Department Stores

Answer 10

Fire deparments=public (only for issued people/cash)

Question 11

How long did the Westward Migration last?

Answer 11

-Late 1800s to after end of Civil War (1865)

Question 12

Who was part of the Westward Migration

Answer 12

-Indians
-Hispanic- New Mexicans
-Anglo Americans
-Chinese/Asians

Question 13

Goal of the Westward Migration:

Answer 13

-Economic Opportunity
-Mining
-Ranching/Farming

Question 14

Homestead Act

Answer 14

-160 acres, 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile = $30
-Head of household
-Improve the land withing 5 years
-Grains

Question 15

Advancements of technology

Answer 15

-Water
-Irragation (windmills)
-Grievances (railroad rates, banking prices, overproduction)