Deck 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization, urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910

Question 1

What was the purpose of the subtreasury plan proposed by Charles Macune in the 1880s? ​

A)To help farmers get bank loans
B)To manipulate the prices of farm crops
C)​To put farmers on the boards of local banks
D)​To provide government aid to farmers during lean years

Answer 1

To manipulate the prices of farm crops

Question 2

The fact that many people associated the Haymarket Riot with organized labor resulted in which of the following? ​

A)A decline in membership in the Knights of Labor.
B)Greater public support for an eight-hour day and improved working conditions.
C)​Federal laws requiring labor leaders to undergo background checks. 
D)​New legislation banning national unions.

Answer 2

A decline in membership in the Knights of Labor.

Question 3

John D.Rockefeller made his fortune in what sector of the economy? ​

A)Banking
B)Railroads
C)​Steel
D)​Oil

Answer 3

​Oil

Question 4

Where did the Homestead Strike begin? ​

A)in a Pennsylvania steel mill
B)in a Chicago railroad community
C)​in the New York garment district
D)​on a Southern cotton plantation

Question 5

What writer became famous for his rags-to-riches novels? ​

A)Herbert Spencer
B)Horatio Alger
C)​Mark Twain
D)​Samuel Gompers

Question 6

Which group encouraged farmers to raise "less corn and more hell" and served as the basis for the Populist Party's platform? ​

A)the Knights of Labor
B)the Farmers' Alliance
C)​the American Federation of Labor
D)​the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union

Question 7

Who was James B.Weaver? ​

A)the president of the Texas Farmers' Alliance
B)the Populist Party's candidate in the1892 election
C)​the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine
D)​the labor leader who instigated the Homestead Strike

Question 8

What was the federal government's first attempt to regulate the railroads? ​

A)The Interstate Commerce Act
B)The Sherman Antitrust Act
C)​The National Reclamation Act 
D)​The Hepburn Act

Question 9

Which of the following was not one of the Ocala demands? ​

A)The subtreasury program
B)Regulation of transportation facilities
C)​Free and unlimited coinage of silver
D)​Abolition of the income tax
E)​Abolition of private banks

Question 10

Which of the following did not promote the growth of a U.S.rail network? ​

A)Standardized width for tracks
B)Government sanctions against pools
C)​Standardized time zones
D)​Federal land grants

Question 11

The Pullman Strike occurred after George Pullman ​

A)initiated wage cuts and layoffs.
B)hired African American porters.
C)​developed the railroad sleeping car.
D)​refused to recognize the American Railway Union
E)​replaced union members with new immigrants

Question 12

Which statement was not true of railroads in the 1880s? ​

A)They stimulated the development of a national market.
B)They consumed more than half of the nation's steel production.
C)​There was only one transcontinental line.
D)​They moved toward consolidation. 

Question 13

Who coined the term the Gilded Age? ​

A)Horatio Alger
B)Mark Twain
C)​Mary Elizabeth Lease
D)​"Boss" Tweed

Question 14

In 1902,the Department of Justice filed suit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against the Northern Securities Company,which had been created in 1901 as a merger of companies in which industry? ​

A)Steel
B)Railroad
C)​Coal 
D)​Banking
E)​Oil 

Question 15

The Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union died out after a strike among cotton pickers in Arkansas resulted in ​

A)the restriction of work on the cotton fields to non-union members.
B)the imprisonment of the union's leaders.
C)​the lynching of fifteen strikers.
D)​a state law banning the organization.

Question 16

Who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870? ​

A)John D.Rockefeller
B)Andrew Carnegie
C)​J.P.Morgan
D)​Samuel Gompers

Question 17

What Thomas Edison inventions was made more commercially successful by a George Westinghouse invention? ​

A)Incandescent lamp
B)Phonograph
C)​Transformer
D)​Sewing machine

Question 18

Why did the situation for U.S.workers begin to change by the 1870s? ​

A)Fewer immigrants entered the country,and laborers became more in demand.
B)Technology began to replace craft skills with machines,with the result that workers were relegated to less skilled areas.
C)​Women and children were treated with more concern than in the past.
D)​Real wages decreased and hours worked per week increased.

Question 19

Which union embraced women,blacks,and agricultural workers,as well as workers from various skilled crafts? ​

A)American Federation of Labor
B)National Labor Union
C)​Knights of Labor
D)​American Railway Union

Question 20

Which industry was the first to confront labor issues on a national scale? ​

A)Oil
B)Steel
C)​Railroad
D)​Textiles

Question 21

In the 1894 congressional elections,​

A)the Democrats won a decisive victory in the Senate. 
B)the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives.
C)​the Populist Party won twice as many congressional seats as in 1892.
D)​several third-party candidates emerged to thwart the two-party system. 

Question 22

J.P.Morgan founded the Standard Oil Company.​

Question 23

What university was created by a wealthy businessman in 1891? ​

A)Stanford
B)Yale
C)​Harvard
D)​Dartmouth

Question 24

What was Hull House? ​

A)a political machine
B)a settlement house for immigrants
C)​one of the country's first skyscrapers
D)​one of the exhibition buildings at the 1893 world's fair in Chicago

Question 25

Which of the following was not a popular form of entertainment in the late nineteenth century? ​

A)Baseball
B)Vaudeville
C)​Football
D)​The circus

Question 26

Time zones were put in place by the railroad industry to help facilitate nationwide travel and transport. ​

Question 27

Louis Sullivan is best known for the development of which of the following? ​

A)the dumbbell tenement
B)the skyscraper
C)​the passenger elevator
D)​the department store

Question 28

What nineteenth-century politician and orator became famous for his "cross of gold" speech in which he said,"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns,you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"? ​

A)William McKinley
B)William Jennings Bryan
C)​William Seward
D)​William Howard Taft

Question 29

In the late 1800s a new wave of immigrants came from which region? ​

A)Southern and eastern Europe
B)Northern and western Europe
C)​Latin America
D)​Southeast Asia

Question 30

Who is generally credited with building the first skyscraper in the United States? ​

A)Louis Sullivan
B)Daniel Burnham
C)​John Pemberton
D)​Andrew Carnegie

Question 31

The most notorious political boss of the nineteenth century was William Magear Tweed,who wielded his political influence over what city? ​

A)Chicago
B)New York
C)​Boston
D)​Philadelphia

Question 32

What was the most common form of government in U.S.cities toward the end of the nineteenth century? ​

A)Mayor-council
B)City manager
C)​Town meeting
D)​Commission

Question 33

Who was the co-founder of Hull House,a settlement house in Chicago? ​

A)Jane Addams
B)Louis Sullivan
C)​Samuel Gompers
D)​Andrew Carnegie

Question 34

Who is the druggist that mixed syrup extracted from the cola nut with carbonated water to "invent" Coca-Cola? ​

A)John Pemberton
B)Louis Sullivan
C)​Thomas Edison
D)​Johns Hopkins

Question 35

Which region of the country favored William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election? ​

A)the Northeast
B)the South
C)​the Great Plains
D)​the Far West

Question 36

In the 1892 election,what party took over control of both houses of Congress? ​

A)the Democratic Party
B)the Populist Party
C)​the Republican Party
D)​the Socialist Party

Question 37

What city hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893? ​

A)New York
B)Chicago
C)​St.Louis
D)​Philadelphia

Question 38

The Wilson-Gorman Tariff included provisions for all of the following except ​

A)reducing duties on wool
B)adding a personal income tax
C)​raising duties on copper and lumber
D)​repealing reciprocal trade provisions of the McKinley Tariff Act

Question 39

Most political bosses of the late nineteenth century were shrewd politicians who ​

A)managed their operations from behind the scenes.
B)spent their own  money on elaborate election campaigns.
C)​reduced the budget by eliminating social services.
D)​actively fought government graft and corruption.

Question 40

To address concerns in the Panic of 1893,Congress ​

A)passed the McKinley Tariff Act.
B)repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
C)​strengthened laws regulating the stock market.
D)​established the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Question 41

Writer Mark Twain coined the term "Gilded Age" to refer to the appealing facade of an age that concealed problems lurking beneath the surface.​

Question 42

The invention of the telephone led to rapid growth in the number of female office workers in the 1880s.​

Question 43

The United States passed the first child labor law forbidding children younger than 16 from working in factories in the 1860s. ​

Question 44

Between 1870 and 1890,net immigration to the United States totaled over 20 million.​

Question 45

In Munn v.Illinois (1877),the Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to regulate railroad rates.​

Question 46

Horizontal integration is the practice of gaining control of all aspects of a particular industry,from the extraction of raw materials to the distribution of the finished product. ​

Question 47

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who gained considerable wealth in the steel industry.​

Question 48

The 1906 Hepburn Act increased the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroads.​

Question 49

Andrew Carnegie cut the cost of steel rail in half by switching to the Bessemer process.​

Question 50

Samuel Gompers led the Knights of Labor,which was aimed at organizing skilled workers.​

Question 51

New immigrants to the United States in the 1870s provided much of the unskilled labor in U.S.factories.​

Question 52

State regulatory commissions became prevalent after the Civil War to establish standard operating practices for railroads.​