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  • Journalists who wrote accounts of the abuses of wealth and power in our society were called 
    Bootleggers
    Scalawags
    Avant Garde
    Muckrakers
  • What group came to the west coast to work the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century? 
    Chinese
    Japanese
    Irish
    Mexican
  • 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
    Timber land was cut, robbing Indians of valuable resources
    Under Dawes Act, Indian reservations lost federal funding
    European diseases 
  • Factor that had the greatest impact on the eventual destruction of Native Americans' 
    steamboat
    highway
    automobile
    railroad
  • The Populist Party was chiefly composed of 
    individual farmers
    Northern factory owners
    Eastern businessmen
    Northern abolitionists
  • Jane Addams's "Hull House" of the late-19th century was 
    helped to retrain Native Americans forced off of their land
    supported and funded by Congress
    created to help adjust immigrants into the United States
    ruled to be unconstitutional in 1901
  • Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan both were ‘captains’ of which industry? 
    oil
    automobile
    steel
    communications
  • Which occurred as a direct result of the U.S.'s late-nineteenth century industrialization? 
    dangerous working conditions
    women's suffrage
    prison reform
    low-cost urban housing
  • One of the main reasons John D. Rockefeller succeeded in the oil industry was because he 
    treated his competitors fairly
    combined vertical and horizontal integration
    urged government regulation of the oil industry
    encouraged competition
  • The Populist Party sought to increase the power of 
    agricultural workers
    textile workers
    industrial unions
    immigrant populations
  • Widespread anti-Chinese sentiment in the late-1800s resulted in 
    Congressional action to stop more Chinese immigration
    legal segregation of all Chinese-Americans 
    deportation of all Chinese-Americans living in California
    native-born Chinese-Americans had their citizenship revoked
  • During the late 19th century, urban political "machines" and those that ran them 
    supported women's suffrage and equal rights for blacks 
    were only members of the Democratic Party
    promised, jobs and money to poor immigrants for their votes
    were nearly always first generation Americans
  • The cartoons of Thomas Nast often protested the actions of 
    "Boss Tweed" in New York City politics
    the actions of union organizers
    Abraham Lincoln's corruption charges
    the greed of Andrew Carnegie
  • What impact did U.S. governmental polices have on business and industry during the late 1800s? 
    regulated industry for the public good
    tried to limit and regulate industrial and business growth
    tried to control utilities and transportation
    had little or no influence on business and industry
  • The "Social Gospel" of late 19th century America held that 
    the United States is God's "chosen country
    only the most holy of people become rich
    the poor are wicked and are lesser in God's sight
    Christian principles should be applied to society's problems
  • Which is an effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?
    agriculture worked longer hours
    railroad companies expanded routes
    time became standardized
    longer factory hours for all workers
  • Women's suffrage and child labor laws occurred during what period?
    Era of Good Feelings
    Jacksonian Era
    Era of Prohibition
    Progressive Era
  • Upton Sinclair's The Jungle impacted the passage of the 
    Meat Inspection Act in 1906
    Eighteenth Amendment
    Nineteenth Amendment
    Twentieth Amendment
  • The Pullman Strike of 1894 was ended when 
    strikebreakers were hired to take the place of strikers
    the Federal government issued an injunction to end it
    President Cleveland sided with the striking workers
    rioters destroyed the Pullman rail car factory in Illinois
  • Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the 19th century favored relaxed immigration laws because 
    were advocates of multicultural education
    were supporters of the Temperance Movement
    valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor
    remembered their immigrant heritage
  • The Dawes Severalty Act policy toward Native Americans in the late 1800s made an attempt to
    grant them full citizenship and due process
    increase the land holdings of western tribes
    give their tribes authority over their own affairs
    force them to give up their traditional cultures
  • What was America's first attempt to exercise control over business in the late 1800s? 
    The Interstate Commerce Commission
    The Food and Drug Administration
    The Civilian Conservation Corps
    The Federal Aviation Administration
  • 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
    the wealth in a society should be equitably distributed 
    graduated income tax is needed to reduce gap of rich/poor
  • What was becoming a major problem in the 1890s?
    Power of unions
    High wages for African Americans
    Over-regulation of big business
    Disparity in wages between labor and owners
  • What term describes the U.S. policies towards businesses in the late 19th century?
    Laissez-faire
    Protectionist
    Mercantilist
    Imperialist
  • Which idea did William Jennings Bryan promote?
    isolationism
    bimetalism
    socialism
    Granger laws
  • 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 support of "banana republics" in Latin American
    he backed the construction of the Panama Canal
    his refusal to seek a third term as President
  • What had the MOST impact on growth of eastern American cities in the late 19th century? 
    low-cost urban housing
    improved farming techniques
    expansion of the interstate system
    decreased immigration
  • Direct election of Senators, women's suffrage, regulation of industries were all issues of 
    Federalists
    Know-Nothings
    Progressives
    Democrats
  • Which one of the following descriptions best describes "horizontal integration"? 
    when the government controls the factors of production
    a company owns all the businesses that supply raw goods
    company gets competing company and merges them into one
    the economic development of the American west
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