Chapter 16 : Gilded Age

Question 1

The Gilded Age refers to a period of suffering and hardship between the civil war and WWI.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

He formed an oil refining monopoly through horizontal integration.

Accepted Answer

John D. Rockefeller

Question 3

Half Breeds were backed by Conkling, favored high tariffs, hard money and the spoils system.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Social Darwinism was based upon the idea of…

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 5

These laws required the segregation of Blacks and whites in social settings

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 6

What type of people was the Grange created for?

Accepted Answer

Farmers

Question 7

He built his steel empire though vertical integration.

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 8

term used to describe the men who built and forged America during the Gilded Age?

Accepted Answer

Captains of Industry

Question 9

He financed General Electric and was one of the first to have his home lit by electricity

Accepted Answer

J.P Morgan

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Mongrel Tariff?

Accepted Answer

Lower the Tariff 20-25% to open the U.S to foreign trade

Question 11

What political party did farmers unite under during the Gilded Age?

Accepted Answer

Populist Party

Question 12

led corrupt Republican political machine that controlled New York’s tariff collecting agency?

Accepted Answer

Roscoe Conkling

Question 13

Which of the following was not a reason why people opposed ‘New Immigrants’

Accepted Answer

The brought a wave of crime along with them

Question 14

Which of the following definitions best describes the ‘Mugwumps’?

Accepted Answer

Republicans who supported Democrat Grover Cleveland

Question 15

A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory killed 146 workers

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Which of the following did the Interstate Commerce Act not touch on.

Accepted Answer

Rail lines were to be controlled by the Federal Government.

Question 17

Who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Harrison

Question 18

What issue caused the Haymarket Riot?

Accepted Answer

Calling for an 8 hour work day

Question 19

Alexander Graham Bell invented the light bulb.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT one of the goals of the Knights of Labor?

Accepted Answer

Paid vacation for all

Question 21

William Jennings Bryan ran a front porch campaign: bringing in trainloads of audiences.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

African Americans could not improve themselves economically until they had equality in politics

Accepted Answer

W.E.B Du Bois

Question 23

improved the railroads by buying up failing rail-lines and connecting them together.

Accepted Answer

James J Hill

Question 24

What was another name given to the 51st congress?

Accepted Answer

The Billion Dollar Congress

Question 25

He stated African Americans should focus on bettering themselves economically through education

Accepted Answer

Booker T Washington

Question 26

He was nicknamed the ‘Commodore’ for his control of New York’s water borne shipping.

Accepted Answer

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Chapter 16 : Gilded Age

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Chapter 16 : Gilded Age

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