Deck 18: Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900

Question 1

The spread of mass transit was a major factor in the growth of the suburbs.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Throughout the Gilded Age,the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Tenement housing gave city dwellers substantially healthier and more comfortable living conditions.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

During the Gilded Age,voter turnout was significantly higher than it is today.

Question 5

In major cities,politics was often a form of public entertainment.

Question 6

Mugwumps tended to oppose civil service reform.

Question 7

When first created,the ICC was too weak to regulate the railroads effectively.

Question 8

The Farmers' Alliances were strongest in the Midwest and Northeast.

Question 9

The peak decade of immigration was the 1890s.

Question 10

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species put forward the theory of evolution.

Question 11

As president,Benjamin Harrison supported generous pensions for veterans.

Question 12

James Garfield was the first southerner to be elected president since the Civil War.

Question 13

One major task in big cities was disposing of horse waste.

Question 14

The Grange was the leading farm organization through the 1890s.

Question 15

Charles Darwin coined the phrase "survival of the fittest."

Question 16

Politics in the late 19th century was dominated by a series of strong presidents.

Question 17

Saloons were the poor man's social clubs during the late 19th century.

Question 18

The Farmers' Alliances accepted black members.

Question 19

As late as 1900,most New York City residents were still native-born Americans.

Question 20

Farmers were generally hurt by the high tariff.

Question 21

Which of the following was not a way early reformers suggested to improve conditions in the cities during the Gilded Age?

A)Replace horse drawn trolleys with electric
B)Move hog farms out of the city
C)Move cattle farms out of the city
D)Establish zoning ordinances to control for urban growth
E)Require slaughterhouses to be outside the city

Question 22

What invention did not ease the ability of people to live outside of major urban areas yet still work there?

A)The automobile
B)Cable cars
C)Elevated steam trains
D)Electric trolleys
E)Commuter trains

Question 23

Cholera,typhoid fever,and yellow fever were often the result in urban areas of

A)overcrowding.
B)poor sanitation.
C)lack of understanding as to what caused the diseases.
D)mosquitoes.
E)poor hygiene amongst the poor.

Question 24

One of the first areas were people began to be interested in reforming society was aimed at

A)the subways.
B)the lack of sewers.
C)the tenements.
D)government corruption.
E)reforming hospital conditions.

Question 25

By 1900,what percentage of the residents in major cities was foreign born?

A)10 percent
B)30 percent
C)50 percent
D)70 percent
E)90 percent

Question 26

Overcrowded,filthy,and poorly maintained ___________ were where the poor of the urban areas lived.

A)tenements
B)government housing
C)central housing authorities
D)colonias
E)skyscrapers

Question 27

The first federal law passed to restrict immigration on the basis of race was

A)The Anti-Irish Immigration Act.
B)The German Exclusion Act.
C)The Anti-Polish Immigration Act.
D)The Chinese Exclusion Act.
E)The Eastern Orthodox Anti-Immigration Act.

Question 28

Which of the following did not aid the construction of taller buildings in the Gilded Age?

A)Steam radiators
B)Elevators
C)Steel frames
D)Cast iron frames
E)Coal-burning furnaces

Question 29

What made immigration different in the time between 1860 and 1920 than in previous years?

A)The immigrants tended to come from eastern and southern Europe.
B)The immigrants tended to come from western and northern Europe.
C)The immigrants tended to come from Central America.
D)Fewer immigrants tended to come than before.
E)The United States enacted restrictions to prevent what were considered undesirable individuals from immigrating.

Question 30

The new immigrants that arrived after 1890 to the United States were not primarily

A)Roman Catholic.
B)Jewish.
C)Protestant.
D)Eastern Orthodox.
E)Muslim.

Question 31

Immigrants who arrived before 1890 to the United States were primarily

A)Roman Catholic.
B)Jewish.
C)Protestant.
D)Eastern Orthodox.
E)Muslim.

Question 32

Which of the following was not a reason to move to the cities during the Gilded Age?

A)The introduction of agricultural machinery made it possible for one farmer to do more.
B)The demand for jobs occurred in urban areas,thus causing people to move there.
C)Tenant farming removed prime land from the agricultural economy,thus causing the loss of jobs.
D)Life was more exciting in cities.
E)Cities sprung up around major landmarks,like mines and rail yards.

Question 33

In the 1870s,what invention allowed the construction of large apartment buildings to become significantly cheaper?

A)The sawmill
B)Steam radiators
C)Steel
D)Oil-burning furnaces
E)The automatic chimney sweep

Question 34

In 1896,the Republican party supported the gold standard.

Question 35

During the period immediately following the Civil War,major cities in the United States

A)experienced growth,sometimes up to four times their original population.
B)suffered from the post-war recession,as factory workers returned to their farms.
C)experienced a crime wave as prohibition became legal.
D)passed bonds to finance internal improvements to help rebuild their destroyed trade centers.
E)created Freedmen's Bureaus to provide economic assistance to the newly freed slaves.

Question 36

Native-born Americans who saw the influx of new immigrants to the United States with concern were called

A)racists.
B)nativists.
C)the American party.
D)muckrakers.
E)mugwumps.

Question 37

A major concern toward those labeled "new immigrants" was

A)that they brought with them diseases from the old world.
B)that they were primarily socialists.
C)that they resisted assimilation.
D)that they were competing with native-born Americans for highly skilled jobs.
E)that they were unwilling to work and therefore a drain on society.

Question 38

What segment of the economy was not actively engaged in recruiting newly arrived immigrants during the Gilded Age?

A)Agriculture
B)Mining
C)Textile mills
D)Railroad companies
E)Factories

Question 39

In 1885,the United States government stopped

A)companies from recruiting immigrant workers at the ports when they arrived.
B)companies from paying to import workers from outside the nation.
C)immigrants from writing their families to tell them about job opportunities in America.
D)the Ku Klux Klan from recruiting within tenements.
E)Chinese immigrants immigrating to California.

Question 40

One of the major downsides of urban dwelling during the Gilded Age was

A)a rise in sicknesses as a result of the overcrowding of living conditions in the cities.
B)a rise in crime caused by the sheer amount of people in the area.
C)the lack of space forced homes to be too expensive to purchase for most people.
D)cultural clashes between people of different ethnicities that were forced into close proximity with one another.
E)the lack of available health care professionals for those who needed them.

Question 41

The concept of "survival of the fittest" being applied to human society was introduced by

A)Albert Schweitzer.
B)Charles Darwin.
C)Herbert Spencer.
D)John Aubrey.
E)William Churchill.

Question 42

In cities during the Gilded Age,the political process was usually controlled by ________,and their organizations were known as _________.

A)kings,realms
B)bosses,machines
C)captains,warrens
D)chairs,precincts
E)leaders,organizations

Question 43

The most popular leisure destinations for the urban working class during the Gilded Age were

A)football stadiums.
B)vaudeville halls.
C)movie theaters.
D)saloons.
E)opera halls.

Question 44

As labor unions became more common during the Gilded Age,what other aspect did they take on in the lives of their members?

A)They provided social activities.
B)They provided economic advancement through leadership roles.
C)They provided educational activities.
D)They provided industrial activities.
E)They provided opportunities to participate in the political process.

Question 45

Perhaps the most profound work of science published during the latter half of the 19th century was

A)Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
B)Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
C)Alexis de Tocqueville's Thoughts on America.
D)Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
E)Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Question 46

What was an example of the new types of entertainment that became popular during the Gilded Age?

A)Opera
B)Attending the theater
C)Wild West traveling shows
D)Boxing
E)Labor unions

Question 47

Unlike today,citizens during the Gilded Age expected the ___________ to have little to no effect on their daily lives.

A)state government
B)local government
C)city government
D)federal government
E)municipal government

Question 48

One of the ways politics in the Gilded Age was different than today was that

A)voters were divided into two groups.
B)voters voted for the same party,year after year,regardless of the candidate.
C)education levels decided which party one was affiliated with.
D)the more money you had,the more likely you were to be involved with politics.
E)the more education you had,the more likely you were to be involved with politics.

Question 49

The practice by Republicans of reminding voters who caused the Civil War was known as

A)remembrance.
B)memorialization.
C)waving the bloody shirt.
D)abolitionism.
E)patronage.

Question 50

One of the most notorious of the robber barons was

A)Woodrow Wilson.
B)Jay Gould.
C)J.P.Morgan.
D)Wilt Chamberlain.
E)P.J.O'Rourke.

Question 51

In the cities,what helped spur the development of professional sporting events?

A)Streetcars
B)Public organizers
C)Mass media campaigns
D)Radio broadcasts
E)The rise of the sports sections in newspapers

Question 52

A common occurrence during the Gilded Age of politics was that members of Congress often

A)accepted bribes.
B)made campaign speeches.
C)blocked pieces of legislation that they did not like.
D)promoted the general welfare of their district.
E)refused to run for re-election.

Question 53

What did one journalist call "the social and intellectual center of the neighborhood" during the Gilded Age in large cities?

A)The Republican party
B)The Democrat party
C)Saloons
D)The Immigration Restriction League
E)Vaudeville halls

Question 54

What affected African Americans' rights to vote in the South during the Gilded Age?

A)The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment removed their right to vote.
B)Jim Crow Laws removed their right to vote.
C)The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment gave them the right to vote.
D)The Supreme Court ruled that property cannot vote.
E)Congress passed a law giving them the right to vote for president.

Question 55

Because of the amount of free time available to workingmen during the Gilded Age,"talking ______" became a popular hobby.

A)shop
B)politics
C)work
D)women
E)life

Question 56

What organization was formed to prevent the Anglo-Saxon "race" from being "contaminated"?

A)Immigration Restriction League
B)Ku Klux Klan
C)The American Party
D)The Anti-Mason League
E)The Workers Progress Association

Question 57

What was not a cause of the changes in recreation and leisure in the Gilded Age?

A)Urbanization
B)Immigration
C)Changes in technology
D)Increases in wealth
E)Sanitation improvements

Question 58

During the Gilded Age,temperance organizations were best associated with

A)the Republican party.
B)the Democrat party.
C)saloons.
D)the Immigration Restriction League.
E)vaudeville halls.

Question 59

This power meant that those newly elected could appoint people to jobs in their sphere of authority.

A)Politics
B)Plutarch
C)Patronage
D)Prescient
E)Paternalism

Question 60

During the Gilded Age the real leaders of the United States could be said to be

A)the Supreme Court.
B)the labor unions.
C)corporations.
D)Congress.
E)the president.

Question 61

The decision to only allow gold to be coined for money was derisively called the

A)Corrupt Bargain.
B)New Deal.
C)Crime of '73.
D)Sherman Anti-Silver Act.
E)New Prosperity.

Question 62

This replaced the spoils system for federal jobs with job placement on the basis of competitive testing.

A)Sherman Anti-Trust Act
B)Barnes-Hailey Act
C)Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
D)Garfield Memorial Reform Act
E)Civil Service Commission Testing and Placement Act

Question 63

During his administration,this president tried to control both sides of his fractured party while pursing reform during the Gilded Age.

A)Hayes
B)Harrison
C)Grant
D)Cleveland
E)Roosevelt

Question 64

The Panic of 1893 started when

A)the Sherman Silver Purchase Act pumped $4.5 million of silver into the market each month.
B)the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad declared bankruptcy.
C)the Texas cotton market collapsed because of drought.
D)the cattle market collapsed because of the blizzard of 1892.
E)the Populist Party was elected to Congress and their representatives passed unfavorable laws.

Question 65

Which political party during the Gilded Age promoted the plight of miners and farmers?

A)Progressives
B)Mugwumps
C)Democrats
D)Republicans
E)Populists

Question 66

Unlike the Grange,the ____________ promoted political involvement among its members to enact change for their members.

A)Farmers' Alliances
B)Knights of Labor
C)Working Man's party
D)American Federation of Labor
E)Congress of International Workers

Question 67

The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry promoted the use of ________ to help farmers.

A)tenant farming
B)cooperatives
C)machinery
D)banks
E)savings and loans

Question 68

Because of the excesses of the Gilded Age,a major period of ________ occurred to _______ it.

A)reform,counter
B)corruption,expand
C)depression,contract
D)recession,harness
E)expansion,control

Question 69

The faction of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was not concerned with the excesses of the time was known as the

A)Whigs.
B)Tories.
C)Stalwarts.
D)Know-Nothings.
E)Half-Breeds.

Question 70

President Cleveland made the Panic of 1893 worse by

A)buying more silver and putting it into the market.
B)convincing Congress to switch back to only minting gold.
C)abolishing the spoils system.
D)refusing to honor their debt with England.
E)allowing the government to default on their deficit.

Question 71

What did not play a role in the terrible economic conditions in the South during the late 19th century?

A)Newly cultivated fields in the west
B)International competition
C)Overproduction in the South
D)Inadequate monetary supply
E)Lack of labor

Question 72

Perhaps one of the greatest catalysts to reform during the Gilded Age was the assassination of

A)J.P.Morgan.
B)President Grant.
C)J.D.Salinger.
D)President Garfield.
E)President Roosevelt.

Question 73

The section of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was concerned with the excesses of the time were known as the

A)Whigs.
B)Tories.
C)Stalwarts.
D)Know-Nothings.
E)Half-Breeds.

Question 74

Republican Protestants during the Gilded Age had a tendency to consider __________ the central social evil in the United States.

A)Democrats
B)saloons
C)immigrants
D)theaters
E)brothels

Question 75

One of the first major areas of reform during the Gilded Age was toward

A)the railroads.
B)the political rings.
C)the steel manufacturers.
D)the oil refiners.
E)the textile industry.

Question 76

Which of the following would favor the policy of sound money?

A)Farmer
B)Shipper
C)Land developer
D)Banker
E)Rancher

Question 77

Because of President Arthur's reform programs

A)he was elected to another term.
B)he lost his attempt to win a second term.
C)he was not chosen by the Republicans as their candidate for a second term.
D)he was not chosen by the Democrats as their candidate for a second term.
E)he was the first president to win a third term.

Question 78

Why did many people want a monetary supply not tied to gold or silver?

A)It would make it harder to get loans.
B)It would create a stronger economy.
C)It would make the dollar stronger.
D)It would make prices higher on goods.
E)It would make it harder to repay debts.

Question 79

One of the biggest political issues of the late 19th century was

A)monetary issues.
B)tariff issues.
C)pension issues for Civil War veterans.
D)civil rights issues.
E)immigration issues.

Question 80

The presidential election of 1884 could be described as

A)style over substance.
B)scandals over issues.
C)party issues over candidates.
D)domestic issues over foreign issues.
E)monetary issues over trade issues.