Duplicate of USHC-4 Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What was becoming a major problem in the 1890s?

Disparity in wages between labor and owners

Power of unions

Over-regulation of big business

High wages for African Americans

The Pullman Strike of 1894 was ended when 

the Federal government issued an injunction to end it

President Cleveland sided with the striking workers

strikebreakers were hired to take the place of strikers

rioters destroyed the Pullman rail car factory in Illinois

What was America's first attempt to exercise control over business in the late 1800s? 

The Interstate Commerce Commission

The Civilian Conservation Corps

The Food and Drug Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration

What term describes the U.S. policies towards businesses in the late 19th century?

Laissez-faire

Imperialist

Mercantilist

Protectionist

The cartoons of Thomas Nast often protested the actions of 

"Boss Tweed" in New York City politics

the greed of Andrew Carnegie

the actions of union organizers

Abraham Lincoln's corruption charges

Jane Addams's "Hull House" of the late-19th century was 

created to help adjust immigrants into the United States

supported and funded by Congress

ruled to be unconstitutional in 1901

helped to retrain Native Americans forced off of their land

The Dawes Severalty Act policy toward Native Americans in the late 1800s made an attempt to

force them to give up their traditional cultures

grant them full citizenship and due process

increase the land holdings of western tribes

give their tribes authority over their own affairs

Which is an effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?

longer factory hours for all workers

time became standardized

agriculture worked longer hours

railroad companies expanded routes

What group came to the west coast to work the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century? 

Chinese

Irish

Japanese

Mexican

Women's suffrage and child labor laws occurred during what period?

Progressive Era

Jacksonian Era

Era of Prohibition

Era of Good Feelings

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle impacted the passage of the 

Meat Inspection Act in 1906

Twentieth Amendment

Eighteenth Amendment

Nineteenth Amendment

Theodore Roosevelt is often called a "Progressive" President. Which is an example of this? 

he supported passage of the Food and Drug Act of 1906

his refusal to seek a third term as President

he backed the construction of the Panama Canal

his support of "banana republics" in Latin American

Widespread anti-Chinese sentiment in the late-1800s resulted in 

Congressional action to stop more Chinese immigration

native-born Chinese-Americans had their citizenship revoked

legal segregation of all Chinese-Americans 

deportation of all Chinese-Americans living in California

The "Social Gospel" of late 19th century America held that 

Christian principles should be applied to society's problems

only the most holy of people become rich

the United States is God's "chosen country

the poor are wicked and are lesser in God's sight

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

were nearly always first generation Americans

supported women's suffrage and equal rights for blacks 

One of the main reasons John D. Rockefeller succeeded in the oil industry was because he 

combined vertical and horizontal integration

encouraged competition

treated his competitors fairly

urged government regulation of the oil industry

Which one of the following descriptions best describes "horizontal integration"? 

company gets competing company and merges them into one

the economic development of the American west

when the government controls the factors of production

a company owns all the businesses that supply raw goods

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

regulated industry for the public good

tried to limit and regulate industrial and business growth

tried to control utilities and transportation

Which idea did William Jennings Bryan promote?

bimetalism

socialism

Granger laws

isolationism

What had the MOST impact on growth of eastern American cities in the late 19th century? 

low-cost urban housing

decreased immigration

improved farming techniques

expansion of the interstate system

Which occurred as a direct result of the U.S.'s late-nineteenth century industrialization? 

dangerous working conditions

prison reform

women's suffrage

low-cost urban housing

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 

Timber land was cut, robbing Indians of valuable resources

Under Dawes Act, Indian reservations lost federal funding

Factor that had the greatest impact on the eventual destruction of Native Americans' 

railroad

automobile

highway

steamboat

According to the "Gospel of Wealth" supported by Andrew Carnegie and Horatio Alger 

wealth is good for society so U.S. should not interfere 

government should play a role in controlling the economy

graduated income tax is needed to reduce gap of rich/poor

the wealth in a society should be equitably distributed 

Journalists who wrote accounts of the abuses of wealth and power in our society were called 

Muckrakers

Scalawags

Avant Garde

Bootleggers

Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the 19th century favored relaxed immigration laws because 

valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor

remembered their immigrant heritage

were advocates of multicultural education

were supporters of the Temperance Movement

The Populist Party sought to increase the power of 

agricultural workers

textile workers

industrial unions

immigrant populations

Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan both were ‘captains’ of which industry? 

steel

automobile

communications

oil

Direct election of Senators, women's suffrage, regulation of industries were all issues of 

Progressives

Democrats

Federalists

Know-Nothings

The Populist Party was chiefly composed of 

individual farmers

Eastern businessmen

Northern abolitionists

Northern factory owners