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Duplicate of Period 6 The Gilded Age Test
Duplicate of Period 6 The Gilded Age Test
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The first labor union that favored boycotts over strikes.
Teamsters
American Federation of Labor
American Legion
Knights of Labor
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The wealthy should use their fortunes for good.
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
Philanthropy
Gospel of Wealth
3
Why did many immigrants choose to live in ethnic enclaves in large cities.
US outlawed immigrants from living in better neighborhoods.
Immigrants only planned to live in America for a brief time.
Better paying jobs and less crime.
Did not have to assimilate to get jobs or find contacts.
4
Used by Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Steel to control all aspects of production of a product.
Diagonal Integration
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Upward Integration
5
Why did debtors demand the coinage of silver?
To prevent the Panic of 1893.
To pay off debts more cheaply
To prevent an economic collapse of U.S. banks
To push for national banks to loan more money to farmers.
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Reformers of the Republican Party
Wigwams
Stalwarts
Mugwumps
Mudbloods
7
What is the intent of the author of this cartoon?
All Americans were once poor lowlifes when they came here.
Politicians would fight over the support of immigrants.
Americans are hypocritical about their views on immigrants.
Immigrants are scum that could bring crime to America.
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Why did William Jennings Bryan lose the 1896 election?
Big business was able to divide populists
Populists split their votes btwn Democrats & People's Party
Populists do not turn out to the polls to vote.
He was too weak to attack Republicans
9
Which of the following could the artist be alluding to in this cartoon.
Indian Removal Act and Asian Exclusion Act
Banning of all immigrants and minorities from thee U.S.
Literacy Tests for new immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act, Dawes Act and Jim Crow Laws
10
Which of the following was NOT an outcome because the Panic of 1893?
Establishment of the People's Party
U.S.A went into a depression
Haymarket Square Riot
Coxey's Army
11
John Rockefeller and standard oil used this form of business to create a monopoly.
Vigorous Integration
Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
Hormonal Integration
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Purpose of the Bessemer Process?
Make cheap abundant steel by blowing hot air into iron.
Method of making steel where cold air is pumped into iron.
Make cheap abundant iron by blowing hot air into steel.
Method of vertical integration used by Carnegie
13
The outcome of the Haymarket Riot
Destroyed unionism in American forever
Won the 8 hour workday
Set organized labor back 40 years
Abolished child labor
14
How does this cartoon justify populist attitudes towards Congress following Coxey's Army?
Congress is too bloated to do the real work for the people.
The Senate has too many rules making it impossible to govern
The Senate are controlled by big business, not the people.
Their work could change the Senator's minds
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What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act used for once it passed. Not its original intent.
Break up the People's Party
Break the corruption in thee Senate.
Break up Unions
Break up monopolies
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Large Railroad strike that was a turning point for labor Unions.
Great Railroad Strike
Pullman Strike
Haymarket Square Riot
Homestead Strike
17
What does Toto stand for?
Factory Workers
Free Silver
immigrants
Prohibitionists
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This character was destroyed by water. What did she stand for in L. Frank Baum's book?
Railroads
Drought
fire
Native Americans
19
Law passed following Garfield's death to reform civil service.
Pendleton Act
Dawes Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Homestead Act
20
What did this cartoon demonstrate about the press's view of the spoils system?
The spoils system was easy to get away with.
It had reached a point where law & order mean nothing.
Government jobs were a joke.
Charles Guiteau was a mere clown, not a sinister killer.
21
Populists wanted the power to elect this group of leaders thought to be swayed by business.
U.S. Presidents
U.S. Senators
CEOs of Companies
U.S. Congressmen
22
Why was it beneficial for the North to pass the Homestead Act during the Civil War?
Southerners had no say about slavery in the west.
Lincoln could outlaw slavery himself in the west.
Northern farmers could block out Southern farmers.
Southern business would be blocked from moving west.
23
A direct result of the poorly used wealth of the upper class, according to Jacob Riis.
Tenements and slums
Disease in big cities
immigration to America
The War of thee Currents
24
What was Tammany Hall?
The meeting place for the Populist Party
The Republican political machine of NYC
The largest building at thee World's Fair.
The Democratic political machine of NYC.
25
Helped reduce disease in cities by removing biological waste.
Sewage Systems
Electric Trollies
Storm Drains
Paved Roads
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Sponsored by western businesses to protect US manufacturing. It later led to the Panic of 1893
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
McKinley Tariff
Tariff of Abominations
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Women should create a home filled with love away from the heartless outside world.
Cult of Republican Motherhood
Cult of Femanism
Cult of Domesticity
Cult of Victorian Womanhood
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What major business was targeted by the Interstate Commerce Act?
Agrobusinesss
oil industry
Railroads
Steel industry
