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The Populist Party was chiefly composed of
Northern abolitionists
Northern factory owners
individual farmers
Eastern businessmen
Direct election of Senators, women's suffrage, regulation of industries were all issues of
Federalists
Democrats
Progressives
Know-Nothings
Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan both were ‘captains’ of which industry?
steel
oil
communications
automobile
The Populist Party sought to increase the power of
agricultural workers
immigrant populations
industrial unions
textile workers
Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the 19th century favored relaxed immigration laws because
were supporters of the Temperance Movement
valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor
were advocates of multicultural education
remembered their immigrant heritage
Journalists who wrote accounts of the abuses of wealth and power in our society were called
Bootleggers
Scalawags
Muckrakers
Avant Garde
According to the "Gospel of Wealth" supported by Andrew Carnegie and Horatio Alger
government should play a role in controlling the economy
the wealth in a society should be equitably distributed
graduated income tax is needed to reduce gap of rich/poor
wealth is good for society so U.S. should not interfere
Factor that had the greatest impact on the eventual destruction of Native Americans'
steamboat
railroad
highway
automobile
What other issue contributed to the problems faced by Native Americans on the Great Plains
Railroads brought more people leading to issue over land use
European diseases
Under Dawes Act, Indian reservations lost federal funding
Timber land was cut, robbing Indians of valuable resources
Which occurred as a direct result of the U.S.'s late-nineteenth century industrialization?
dangerous working conditions
women's suffrage
low-cost urban housing
prison reform
What had the MOST impact on growth of eastern American cities in the late 19th century?
expansion of the interstate system
improved farming techniques
low-cost urban housing
decreased immigration
Which idea did William Jennings Bryan promote?
bimetalism
socialism
Granger laws
isolationism
What impact did U.S. governmental polices have on business and industry during the late 1800s?
had little or no influence on business and industry
tried to limit and regulate industrial and business growth
tried to control utilities and transportation
regulated industry for the public good
Which one of the following descriptions best describes "horizontal integration"?
company gets competing company and merges them into one
a company owns all the businesses that supply raw goods
when the government controls the factors of production
the economic development of the American west
One of the main reasons John D. Rockefeller succeeded in the oil industry was because he
treated his competitors fairly
encouraged competition
combined vertical and horizontal integration
urged government regulation of the oil industry
During the late 19th century, urban political "machines" and those that ran them
promised, jobs and money to poor immigrants for their votes
were only members of the Democratic Party
supported women's suffrage and equal rights for blacks
were nearly always first generation Americans
