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Period 6 The Gilded Age Test
Period 6 The Gilded Age Test
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1
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act used for once it passed. Not its original intent.
Break the corruption in thee Senate.
Break up Unions
Break up the People's Party
Break up monopolies
2
Mineral deposit discovered in Black Hills of the Dakotas. US forced natives off land to take it
Comestock Lode
The Gold Rush
The Big Kemosabe
Big Bonanza
3
What did this cartoon demonstrate about the press's view of the spoils system?
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.
The spoils system was easy to get away with.
4
Outcome for labor following the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Helped establish the Knights of Labor.
Brought an end to the Knights of Labor
More people became sympathetic to unions
set labor relations back 40 years
5
What was Tammany Hall?
The largest building at thee World's Fair.
The Republican political machine of NYC
The meeting place for the Populist Party
The Democratic political machine of NYC.
6
Reformers of the Republican Party
Mudbloods
Stalwarts
Wigwams
Mugwumps
7
Helped reduce disease in cities by removing biological waste.
Electric Trollies
Sewage Systems
Paved Roads
Storm Drains
8
Granted citizenship and land to natives that gave up their customs and lived on reservations.
Homestead Act
Indian Removal Act
Dawes Act
Pendleton Act
9
How does this cartoon justify populist attitudes towards Congress following Coxey's Army?
The Senate are controlled by big business, not the people.
The Senate has too many rules making it impossible to govern
Their work could change the Senator's minds
Congress is too bloated to do the real work for the people.
10
Which of the following was NOT affected by the Panic of 1893?
Haymarket Square Riot
Coxey's Army
Establishment of the People's Party
Closing of the Chicago World's Fair
11
The outcome of the Haymarket Riot
Won the 8 hour workday
Destroyed unionism in American forever
Abolished child labor
Set organized labor back 40 years
12
What major shift allowed for the global migration of people in the late 19th Century?
The U.S. had more jobs available than anywhere else.
Violence in Eastern Europe was driving many to leave.
All jobs were now in cities.
Safe, cheap, fast transportation.
13
Purpose of the Bessemer Process?
Make cheap abundant steel by blowing hot air into iron.
Make cheap abundant iron by blowing hot air into steel.
Method of making steel where cold air is pumped into iron.
Method of vertical integration used by Carnegie
14
What was the true purpose for the Pledge of Allegiance?
To better indoctrinate immigrant children into American life
As a vow for the boys scouts
To commemorate the 400th Anv. of Columbus's Voyage
A way to root out communists in labor unions.
15
Considered to be the most corrupt administration in presidential history.
Rutherfraud(furd) b. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
16
Why did William Jennings Bryan lose the 1896 election?
He was too weak to attack Republicans
Populists do not turn out to the polls to vote.
Populists split their votes btwn Democrats & People's Party
Big business was able to divide populists
17
Why did many immigrants choose to live in ethnic enclaves in large cities.
Better paying jobs and less crime.
US outlawed immigrants from living in better neighborhoods.
Immigrants only planned to live in America for a brief time.
Did not have to assimilate to get jobs or find contacts.
18
Why was it beneficial for the North to pass the Homestead Act during the Civil War?
Southern business would be blocked from moving west.
Southerners had no say about slavery in the west.
Northern farmers could block out Southern farmers.
Lincoln could outlaw slavery himself in the west.
19
Why was it now more accepted to have darker skin in the upper class.
The poor made white skin tacky.
It was acceptable for all classes to look alike.
Being Italian was considered a fashion statement
Lower class workers work inside.
20
Why did debtors demand the coinage of silver?
To pay off debts more cheaply
To push for national banks to loan more money to farmers.
To prevent an economic collapse of U.S. banks
To prevent the Panic of 1893.
21
The significance of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.
It forced the US to adopt reservations for native americans.
It ended Indian Resistance in the West.
Began to bloody Plains Indians War.
It wiped out the buffalo herds in North America.
22
What is the intent of the author of this cartoon?
Immigrants are scum that could bring crime to America.
Americans are hypocritical about their views on immigrants.
All Americans were once poor lowlifes when they came here.
Politicians would fight over the support of immigrants.
23
What major business was targeted by the Interstate Commerce Act?
Railroads
Steel industry
Agrobusinesss
oil industry
24
Which is not a reason why buffalo were nearly hunted to extinction?
Agrobusinesesses removed them to provide more farm land.
Ranchers needed them removed for cattle grazing
Miners needed to remove them to gain access to minerals
Railroads wanted to remove them to prevent damage to trains
25
The reason The Chicago World's Fair gained the nickname "The White City."
Buildings were painted white to demonstrate cleanliness.
Not allowing minorities entry into the fair.
Electric lights provided by George Westinghouse
Electric lights provided by Thomas Edison and GE.
26
Sponsored by western businesses to protect US manufacturing. It later led to the Panic of 1893
Tariff of Abominations
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
McKinley Tariff
27
Law passed following Garfield's death to reform civil service.
Pendleton Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
28
Women should create a home filled with love away from the heartless outside world.
Cult of Victorian Womanhood
Cult of Republican Motherhood
Cult of Femanism
Cult of Domesticity
29
A direct result of the poorly used wealth of the upper class, according to Jacob Riis.
Disease in big cities
immigration to America
The War of thee Currents
Tenements and slums
30
Brought an end to the open range and the cowboys.
Barbed Wire
Railroads
Packers
Wounded Knee
31
John Rockefeller and standard oil used this form of business to create a monopoly.
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Hormonal Integration
Vigorous Integration
32
Used by Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Steel to control all aspects of production of a product.
Horizontal Integration
Diagonal Integration
Upward Integration
Vertical Integration
33
The wealthy should use their fortunes for good.
Philanthropy
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
34
What event brought an end to the War of the Currents?
When Edison invented the film camera.
Chicago World's Fair
When Westinghouse hired Tesla from Edison.
Electrocution of Topsy
35
Labor strike that was fought on the grounds of the Chicago World's Fair in 1894.
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Great Railroad Strike
Haymarket Square Riot
36
This character was destroyed by water. What did she stand for in L. Frank Baum's book?
Native Americans
Railroads
Drought
fire
37
The first labor union that favored boycotts over strikes.
Teamsters
American Legion
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
38
Which of the following could the artist be alluding to in this cartoon.
Literacy Tests for new immigrants
Indian Removal Act and Asian Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act, Dawes Act and Jim Crow Laws
Banning of all immigrants and minorities from thee U.S.
39
What does Toto stand for?
immigrants
Free Silver
Prohibitionists
Factory Workers
40
Populists wanted the power to elect this group of leaders thought to be swayed by business.
U.S. Presidents
U.S. Congressmen
U.S. Senators
CEOs of Companies
