Part 4: Part 4: Forging an Industrial SocietyForging an Industrial Society

The Gilded Age and IndustrialismChapters 23 to 26

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The Chautauqua movement was

A) an early form of adult education

B) an effort to prevent the teaching of evolution

C) a late nineteenth-century religious revival

D) a literary movement of expatriate American authors

E) a school of fiction based in the MidwestA

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

One reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan fervor of the Gilded Age was

A) the parties’ differences over economic issues

B) sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of both parties

C) battles between Catholics and Lutherans

D) differences over the issue of civil service

B

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was

A) effective in restoring competition

B) declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

C) supported by John D. Rockefeller

D) not immediately successful in limiting business concentration

E) passed by Congress over the veto of President Benjamin Harrison

D

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

A) were all won by Republicans

B) aroused great interest among voters

C) were rarely close

D) usually involved sharp partisan differences over issues like currency policy and civil-service reform

B

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The “Crime of 1873” was

A) the blatant frauds exposed in the 1872 presidential election

B) the buying and selling of votes in attempts to defeat the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act

C) revelations of the Credit Mobiliér railroad construction scandal

D) the decision by Congress to stop the coinage of silver

E) the refusal of Congress to remain on the gold standard

D

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

Which of the following is a correct statement about the Gilded Age?

A) The average real wages of blue-collar workers declined

B) The average number of hour’s people worked increased

C) Prices of farm products rose sharply, causing the cost of living to rise steeply

D) Business activity expanded and contracted frequently

E) The federal debt from the Civil War required heavy federal taxes

D

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

Of the following, which was the most important cause of agrarian discontent in the United States?

A) The end of free homesteads

B) The end of Republican Party efforts to woo the farm vote

C) The exhaustion of the soil by poor farming methods

D) The feeling that the railroads were exploiting the farmers

E) The increase in the number of immigrantsD

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

One by-product of the development of the railroads was

A) a scattering of the U.S. population

B) fewer big cities

C) the movement of people to cities

D) a reduction in immigration to the United States

C

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

J. P. Morgan monitored his competition by placing officers of his bank on the boards of companies he wanted to control. This method was known as a(n)

A) interlocking directorate

B) trust

C) vertical integration

D) pool

A

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

A) represented a victory over corporate wealth

B) tended to stabilize the existing business system

C) revolutionized the existing business system

D) was repealed shortly after it was enacted A

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

Most of the presidents of the 1870s and 1880s were all of the following EXCEPT

A) opposed to high protective tariffs

B) were Civil War veterans

C) were Republicans

D) won narrow victories

A

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

Most new immigrants

A) eventually returned to their country of origin

B) tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America

C) were subjected to stringent immigration restrictions

D) were quickly assimilated into the mainstream of American life

B

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The first successful oil well was drilled in

(A)Texas

(B) Oklahoma

(C) Pennsylvania

(D) New Jersey

(E) California

C

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The individual associated with the development of the skyscraper was

(A) John A Roebling

(B) Frederick Law Olmsted

(C) Louis H. Sullivan

(D) Edward Bellamy

(E) Thomas A. EdisonC

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the

(A) Federal Trade Commission.

(B) Interstate Commerce Commission.

(C) Consumer Affairs Commission.

(D) Federal Anti-Trust Commission.

B

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

As a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested

(A) a policy of deflation.

(B) a passage of the Resumption Act of 1875.

(C) inflationary policies.

(D) restoring the government’s credit rating.

C

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the

(A) National Labor Union.

(B) Knights of Labor.

(C) American Federation of Labor.

(D) Knights of Columbus.

C

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

One of the early symbols of the dawning era in consumerism in America was

(A) the development of factories.

(B) the Sears catalog.

(C) the rise of large department stores.

(D) public transportation systems.

C

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

Henry George argued that the unearned windfall profits of those who did not work for them should be

(A) confiscated by government taxation.

(B) distributed to public works through private philanthropy.

(C) saved and invested by private bankers.

(D) looked upon as the inevitable consequence of “survival of the fittest.”A

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

The term Richardsonian in the late nineteenth century pertained to

(A) sculpture

(B) novels

(C) painting

(D) buildings

D

The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age

In the Gilded Age, “hard money” policies were reflected in all of the following EXCEPT

(A) the Resumption Act of 1875

(B) the “Crime of 1873”

(C) contraction

(D) the position of the Greenback Labor party

D