The Gilded Age Test Review

Question 1

How did department stores differ from general stores?

Accepted Answer

They offered more selection, They specialized in something

Question 2

What was the primary use of oil before the mid to late 1850s?

Accepted Answer

Medicine

Question 3

Which is true of company towns?

Accepted Answer

Included things like: libraries, houses, stores, parks, Companies switch from paying people money to giving tokens, The entire town was made of company employees

Question 4

T or F: The number of women in college decreased after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Who gave land to the railroads to encourage building?

Accepted Answer

Congress, The States

Question 6

Former slave who said that black people should earn the right to vote through hard work?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 7

Which of the following grew to meet the new demands for products/materials in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Railroads, Factories

Question 8

James A. Garfield ran on only one issue name it:

Accepted Answer

Civil Service Reform

Question 9

Which is true of labor conditions prior to unions?

Accepted Answer

Women and children made up a majority of the workforce, Work hours were 12 to 16 hours a day

Question 10

TorF: The Sherman Antitrust Act madeit a crime for businesses to combine to prevent competition

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

T or F: Between 1876 & 1892 the two major political parties were almost even strength

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

What do we call the system we switched to, to ensure that everyone had the correct time?

Accepted Answer

Standard time

Question 13

T or F: The Gilded Age, was an age of strong presidents

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

T or F: By 1900 there was a significant number of black teachers in the United States?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What are the buildings called the poor of the cities lived in?

Accepted Answer

Tenements

Question 16

Which is true of Rutherford B. Hayes?

Accepted Answer

There was a railroad strike & a depression during their term, He was a 1 term president

Question 17

Which events pointed to the growing racism towards immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Harvard college was teaching race superiority, Literacy tests were introduced for the first time

Question 18

Man who had the invention factory where things like the lightbulb and phonograph came from?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 19

Which is true of the living conditions in the cities?

Accepted Answer

Disease was prevalent because of the waste, Streets weren't repaired, sewers weren't built, Garbage was everywhere

Question 20

What two changes in how buildings were made allowed for the rise of the department store?

Accepted Answer

Large windows were put on the first floor to display product, Cast iron was used to make them bigger and stronger

Question 21

What happened during the term of Grover Cleveland?

Accepted Answer

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, He tried to reduce unnecessary taxation by reducing tariffs

Question 22

Who took over after James A. Garfield?

Accepted Answer

Chester A. Arthur

Question 23

The original mail order store. You ordered out of a catalog and it was sent to you.

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Ward

Question 24

Gilded age aristocrat who made his wealth in banking and railroads; would buy Carnegie Steel

Accepted Answer

J.P. Morgan

Question 25

What do we call the institutions of higher learning that appeared where land was given to them

Accepted Answer

Land-grant

Question 26

Gilded Age business man who made his wealth in oil & would become 1 of the wealthiest men ever

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 27

T or F: Farmer struggled during the Civil War

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

Which two theories were used to describe the issues of the cities?

Accepted Answer

The immigrants were causing the problems, The lack of new frontier was causing the problems

Question 29

Who made up a majority of new city dwellers?

Accepted Answer

Immigrants

Question 30

Which was a primary benefit of the public schools?

Accepted Answer

Students were taught culture/language & taught their parents

Question 31

Which President was shot to death?

Accepted Answer

James A. Garfield

Question 32

Which is one of John D. Rockefeller's shady business practices?

Accepted Answer

He participated in trusts, He conspired to get rid of competition between companies, He would lower prices to force competetors out of business

Question 33

Gilded Age man who obtained his wealth by starting a steel company. Established many libraries

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 34

Only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?

Accepted Answer

Grover Cleveland

Question 35

A group of companies that gave all stock to a board to control the companies

Accepted Answer

Trust

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