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US History - The American Promise Ch 17-18, Exams of History

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Which of the following developments was a key factor in the rise of the Gilded Age?

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US History - The American Promise Ch 17-18
Which of the following developments was a key factor in the rise of the Gilded Age?
The growth of industrialism in the United States
To what did the term solid South refer in the decades after Reconstruction?
The states of the old Confederacy, which voted Democratic in every election for the next seventy
years
The turn of the twentieth century saw individual entrepreneurship in the United States yield to#
finance capitalism
Which of the following describes the Gilded Age?
An era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics
Which group of Republicans fiercely supported the patronage system?
Stalwarts
Which of the following factors explains the high voter turnout in national elections during the last
three decades of the nineteenth century?
Voting was an important way to get a government job
Which of the following was true of Standard Oil in the 1890s?
It controlled more than 90 percent of the oil business
According to American businessmen who subscribed to the economic theory of laissez-faire,
what was the role of the government in the economy?
It should not interfere in economic affairs except to protect private property
Which of the following factors boosted nineteenth-century railroad construction in America
significantly?
Monetary aid and land grants from federal and state governments
According to Ida B. Wells, lynching was a problem rooted in
economics and the shifting social structure of the South
Which group enthusiastically supported the tariff in the nineteenth century?
Industrialists
What was evident in the call for a New South in the decades after Reconstruction?
The desire among some southerners to shift to an industrial economy
What was the purpose of vertical integration, which was pioneered by Andrew Carnegie in the
late nineteenth century?
It placed all aspects of the business, from mining raw materials to marketing and transporting
finished products, under the control of the chief operating officer
What did the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act have in common?
Both testified to the nation's growing willingness to use federal measures to intervene in big
business on behalf of the public interest
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Which of the following developments was a key factor in the rise of the Gilded Age? The growth of industrialism in the United States To what did the term solid South refer in the decades after Reconstruction? The states of the old Confederacy, which voted Democratic in every election for the next seventy years The turn of the twentieth century saw individual entrepreneurship in the United States yield to finance capitalism Which of the following describes the Gilded Age? An era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics Which group of Republicans fiercely supported the patronage system? Stalwarts Which of the following factors explains the high voter turnout in national elections during the last three decades of the nineteenth century? Voting was an important way to get a government job Which of the following was true of Standard Oil in the 1890s? It controlled more than 90 percent of the oil business According to American businessmen who subscribed to the economic theory of laissez-faire, what was the role of the government in the economy? It should not interfere in economic affairs except to protect private property Which of the following factors boosted nineteenth-century railroad construction in America significantly? Monetary aid and land grants from federal and state governments According to Ida B. Wells, lynching was a problem rooted in economics and the shifting social structure of the South Which group enthusiastically supported the tariff in the nineteenth century? Industrialists What was evident in the call for a New South in the decades after Reconstruction? The desire among some southerners to shift to an industrial economy What was the purpose of vertical integration, which was pioneered by Andrew Carnegie in the late nineteenth century? It placed all aspects of the business, from mining raw materials to marketing and transporting finished products, under the control of the chief operating officer What did the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act have in common? Both testified to the nation's growing willingness to use federal measures to intervene in big business on behalf of the public interest

How effective was the Interstate Commerce Commission, the nation's first federal regulatory agency? It was so weak in its early years that it served as little more than a historical precedent The presidents who served in the last part of the nineteenth century—Rutherford B. Hayes through William McKinley— were overshadowed by party politics at state and local levels What idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late nineteenth century? Progress is the result of competition where the strong survived and the weak died out In her History of the Standard Oil Company published in McClure's Magazine, Ida M. Tarbell characterized John D. Rockefeller as a man who had used illegal methods to take over the oil industry The tariff posed a threat to America's prosperity in the 1880s because it created a surplus that was not used to produce goods and services How did American women respond to the denial of their right to vote in the late nineteenth century? They participated in the political process though the antilynching, suffrage, and temperance movements Which of the following big businesses came to dominate American life in the second half of the nineteenth century? Railroading How did Alexander Graham Bell's telephone revolutionize both communications and business in America? He used a complicated organizational structure in his new company that allowed both local and cross-country communication What message did Andrew Carnegie promote in his gospel of wealth? Millionaires should be trustees and agents for the poor What was the outcome of the notion that black men were a threat to white women in the South in the late nineteenth century? An increasing number of lynchings across the South Where had electricity been put to use in the United States by the late nineteenth century? Mostly in urban areas Along with the Homestead Act of 1862, which factor helped stimulate the land rush in the trans- Mississippi West? The opening of the transcontinental railroad What was the outcome of the transformation of agriculture to big business in the South and West during the post–Civil War era? An increasing number of laborers worked land they would never own

Which group or groups decimated the buffalo herds on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century? Railroads and irresponsible hide hunters Which statement describes the U.S. government's Indian policy during the middle of the nineteenth century? The government pushed Indians off their lands and into reservations Why did the Plains Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which ceded some of their land to allow the passage of wagon trains? They hoped to preserve their culture in the face of white onslaught What was the outcome of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887? Division of reservations and allotment of individual plots of land to Native Americans Which of the following characterizes life for women on the western frontier in the late nineteenth century? They were forced to work hard to accomplish even the simplest tasks Which of the following explains why the U.S. army gunned down unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota in 1890? American soldiers feared an uprising provoked by a militant interpretation of the Ghost Dance religion Of the 2.5 million farms established between 1860 and 1900, homesteading accounted for what proportion? One-fifth Which statement describes life on the Indian reservations? Poverty and starvation stalked Indian reservations