Deck 18: The Industrial Age: North, South, and West

Question 1

Between 1880 and 1890, the network of southern railroads increased more than 100 percent.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In a speech known as the Atlanta Compromise, Booker T. Washington asserted that economic progress could take place only through racial integration.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Tenements often had thick walls and several windows.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which of the following was a characteristic of the tenements built from single-family homes in the 1900s?

A)They had very thick walls.
B)They had several windows.
C)They had multiple units.
D)They had opulent interiors.
E)They had thatched roofs.

Question 5

The Homestead Act awarded 160 acres to settlers who occupied the land for five years.

Question 6

Jim Crow laws prevented African Americans from attending the same schools or sitting in the same areas of restaurants as white people.

Question 7

Which of the following was a reason for the fast growth of the southern textile industry during the Industrial Age?

A)Abundance of cheap labor
B)Relaxed working conditions
C)Short working hours
D)Low import tariffs
E)Easy availability of agricultural loans

Question 8

Which of the following was true of the immigrants who came to the United States between 1880 and 1920?

A)The immigrants were prominently from the British Isles and northern Europe.
B)The immigrants were at the top rung of the industrial hierarchy.
C)The immigrants came with limited knowledge of English.
D)The immigrants worked high-paying jobs due to their good work-skills.
E)The immigrants lived in single-family homes and deck houses.

Question 9

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years.

Question 10

During the Industrial Age, which of the following types of dwellings did developers reconstruct from previously built single-family homes?

A)Tenements
B)Ranches
C)Maisonettes
D)Cottages
E)Fertighausen

Question 11

The South lagged behind the North in urbanization and industrialization before the Civil War because:

A)it was completely dependent on slavery.
B)it had no stable government.
C)it was completely isolated from the neighboring regions.
D)it had corrupt government officials.
E)it preferred traditional methods of trade.

Question 12

Mexican laborers made up 90 percent of the laborers who worked on the western half of the first transcontinental railroad.

Question 13

The term Gilded Age was coined by:

A)Mark Twain.
B)Andrew Carnegie.
C)Charles Darwin.
D)Herbert Spencer.
E)William M. Tweed.

Question 14

Oskar is a German who immigrated to America in 1916. He passed through New York's Ellis Island. Due to his limited knowledge of English and limited work skills, he found himself working as a laborer in a shoe-manufacturing factory. Immigrants like Oskar were called _____.

A)floaters
B)populists
C)greenhorns
D)proletarians
E)sodbusters

Question 15

Which of the following was true of the Gilded Age?

A)Opulent mansions owned by the wealthy were confiscated by the state to construct factories in those sites.
B)Many people incurred huge financial losses and were forced to sell their properties and businesses.
C)Many people amassed large fortunes and led a lavish lifestyle in full view of the public.
D)The wealthy and the poor reconciled and maintained a prosperous society.
E)The working classes gained a better income after the industrial revolution.

Question 16

Which of the following terms refers to the Europeans who immigrated to America between 1880 and 1920?

A)Proletarians
B)Sodbusters
C)Floaters
D)Populists
E)Greenhorns

Question 17

The Dawes General Allotment Act allowed Indians to sell the lands allocated to them.

Question 18

Which of the following epidemics swept through city populations in the late 1800s due to bad housing for factory workers and a lack of proper sanitation in the cities?

A)Plague
B)Typhoid
C)Measles
D)Anthrax
E)Smallpox

Question 19

In the 1800s, the textile industry employed a large number of southerners.

Question 20

As a part of the Subtreasury Plan, crops would be stored in government-owned warehouses and used as collateral for low-cost government loans to struggling farmers.

Question 21

Which of the following led the South's industrial expansion in the late 1800s?

A)Railroads
B)Silk
C)Copper
D)Aircrafts
E)Wheat

Question 22

Which of the following is true of the southern textile industry in the 1880s and the 1890s?

A)It was common for a worker to work a fourteen-hour day.
B)There was a shortage of cheap labor.
C)Wages in southern textile mills were the same as in the North.
D)Transportation was a big problem.
E)It employed a large percentage of Southerners.

Question 23

_____ were giant farms on the Great Plains, covering thousands of acres and employing hundreds of workers during the late 1800s.

A)Bonanza farms
B)Corporate farms
C)Family farms
D)Contract farms
E)Antique farms

Question 24

_____ were American pioneers who settled the northern Great Plains.

A)Proletarians
B)Floaters
C)Sodbusters
D)Populists
E)Greenhorns

Question 25

Bardov & Co. was a cigarette-manufacturing company located at Rodeville, Georgia, in the mid-1880s. It employed 1000 skilled laborers who could roll 200 cigarettes per hour on average. In which of the following ways could the company have best increased its production efficiency and reduced its employment costs?

A)By hiring female laborers who worked in textile factories
B)By firing half the number of employees and increasing the work timings
C)By hiring laborers from the North with lower wages
D)By using cheaper tobacco imported from eastern Europe
E)By using automatic cigarette-rolling machines

Question 26

In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson , the Supreme Court held that segregation laws governing public accommodations such as railroads and public schools were constitutional based on the Court's finding that:

A)the chosen representatives of both the races agreed to this arrangement in writing.
B)the chosen representatives of either of the races agreed to this arrangement in writing.
C)no other laws were broken as a result of this arrangement.
D)no qualitative difference existed between the two racially-based sets of public accommodations.
E)the quality of the facilities provided reflected the separate standards of living of the two races.

Question 27

Eva was a German immigrant who settled in America in the 1880s. She occupied and tended a 160-acre parcel of land, which she improved by working on it. Which of the following circumstances would enable Eva to gain ownership of the land?

A)If Eva's relatives occupied the adjoining piece of land for three years
B)If Eva had actively participated in the Civil War
C)If Eva was under the age of 20
D)If Eva had not received citizenship
E)If Eva occupied the land for five years

Question 28

Which of the following is true of the Southern railroads between 1880 and 1890?

A)Most of them were renovated by the new government.
B)They were destroyed by recurring earthquakes.
C)They were replaced by concrete roads.
D)They were expanded in size by more than 100 percent.
E)Most of them were mutilated by mutineers.

Question 29

Kristof was a Polish immigrant in the U.S. in the late 1800s. He had to choose a city to move to and an industry for employment. Which of the following is most likely to have been true of Kristof's choice?

A)He is most likely to have been employed in the cotton industry as the work was easier and had shorter working hours.
B)He is most likely to have chosen the cities of the North over those of the South because of higher wages.
C)He is most likely to have returned to his native country as the U.S. faced an economic depression in the late 1800s.
D)He is most likely to have chosen to settle in the cities of the South and regularly travelled to the North for work.
E)He is most likely to have chosen the cities of the South over those of the North because of cheaper accommodations.

Question 30

Edward Pollard-in his book The Lost Cause , published just one year after the Civil War ended-argued that the real reason the Civil War happened was:

A)northern aggression against the South.
B)political bias toward the North.
C)the South's desire to maintain slavery.
D)old hatred between the North and the South.
E)the North's desire to end slavery.

Question 31

Which of the following laws, passed between 1890 and 1913, mandated racial segregation in public facilities, including schools, restaurants, and rail cars?

A)The Mississippi Plans
B)The Barbados Slave Codes
C)The Intolerable Acts
D)The Jim Crow laws
E)The Coercive Acts

Question 32

Which of the following is marked by Juneteenth?

A)The date that racial segregations were abolished
B)The date that slaves were formally freed in Texas
C)The date that Martin Luther King Jr. was born
D)The date that the Niagara Movement was started
E)The date that the Civil War was officially started

Question 33

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an editor and writer, concentrated her reform efforts on the social issue of:

A)temperance.
B)disfranchisement.
C)sexism.
D)racism.
E)lynching.

Question 34

In the _____, W.E.B. Du Bois drafted a Statement of Principles declaring that African Americans should fight for their rights rather than accept abuse and separation.

A)Slave Trade Compromise
B)Chicano Movement
C)Atlanta Compromise
D)Niagara Movement
E)Western Cape Campaign

Question 35

Which of the following plans, passed in 1890, established legal barriers to prevent African Americans from voting in Mississippi?

A)The Second Mississippi Plan
B)The Third Mississippi Plan
C)The Fifth Mississippi Plan
D)The Fourth Mississippi Plan
E)The First Mississippi Plan

Question 36

Booker T. Washington's speech, now referred to as the Atlanta Compromise, asserted that:

A)African Americans ought to fight for their full political rights.
B)economic progress could take place without racial integration.
C)white Americans owed African Americans not just an apology, but massive reparations.
D)African Americans ought to immigrate to Africa.
E)the only answer to racial oppression was a vote for liberal Democrats.

Question 37

Which of the following was true of industrial employment in the South in the late 1800s?

A)Wages were the same as in the North.
B)Wages were around 30 percent higher than they were in the North.
C)Poor white people were more likely to be employed by railroads than were African Americans.
D)Black southerners dominated industrial employment.
E)Southerners were more likely to be employed by railroads than were northerners.

Question 38

Which of the following did the Louisiana Separate Car Act mandate?

A)Black people were prohibited from purchasing the same automobile models as white people.
B)Black people were prohibited from taking the same routes as whites while driving a car.
C)Black people had to pay higher ticket prices than whites to travel in the same trains.
D)Black people and white people were required to pay taxes when purchasing cars.
E)Black people and white people were required to ride in separate train cars.

Question 39

Theodore was an African American residing in the southern part of America in the late 1890s. He visited a restaurant named "The Anarch" with his wife. Neither of them were allowed to sit in the main dining hall of the restaurant. However, he noticed that several white people had been allowed to sit in that area. Which of the following laws most likely mandated this racial segregation?

A)The Jim Crow laws
B)The Davis-Bacon Act
C)The Second Mississippi Plan
D)The Barbados Slave Code
E)The Adam Walsh Act

Question 40

Which of the following is the name given to the speech delivered by Booker T. Washington in 1895 encouraging black economic development and assuaging white fears of racial intermingling?

A)The Atlanta Compromise
B)A House Divided
C)History Will Absolve Me
D)The Forgotten People
E)Pound Cake

Question 41

The _________ was a federal law passed in 1887, declaring that lands held by Indian nations were to be divided among families.
a. Dawes General Allotment Act
B. Goldwater-Nichols Act
C. Homestead Act
D. Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act

Question 42

The _________ was the first professional baseball league, founded in 1876 with eight teams.
a. National League
B. American League
C. Gulf Coast League
D. Jersey Shore League

Question 43

Explain the Jim Crow laws and the response of the African American community to segregation.

Question 44

The _________ was an economic plan advocated by the Farmers' Alliance, in which crops would be stored in government-owned warehouses and used as collateral for low-cost government loans to struggling farmers.
a. Tweed Ring Plan
B. Subtreasury Plan
C. Sears Scheme
D. Ponzi Scheme

Question 45

Summarize the characteristics of the New South.

Question 46

Which of the following was the cause of the Wounded Knee Massacre?

A)Rebellion against Grant's Peace Policy
B)Protests against taxation
C)Accidental rifle discharge
D)Racial discrimination in employment
E)Political rivalry between Republicans and Democrats

Question 47

Discuss the struggles and triumphs of immigrants in the U.S. in the late 1800s.

Question 48

As a consequence of the Dawes General Allotment Act, an American Indian man known among white people as Michael receives 80 acres of American Indian tribal land. Which of the following is in accordance with the act?

A)Michael is allowed to sell the land five years after the allotment.
B)The government holds the land allocated to Michael in trust for 50 years.
C)The government holds the land allocated to Michael in trust for 25 years.
D)Michael becomes a U.S. citizen nine years after the allotment.
E)Michael is allowed sell the land 15 years after the allotment.

Question 49

Ming was a Chinese immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1875. He lived in Arville, California, for a period of seven years. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. In which of the following ways was this legislation most likely to have impacted Ming?

A)Ming was prohibited from becoming a citizen of the United States.
B)Ming was exempted from property tax.
C)Ming was prohibited from being employed in the railroad industry.
D)Ming was granted immunity against federal crimes.
E)Ming was immediately deported to China.

Question 50

To _____ is to turn a certain commodity back into an acceptable currency.

A)absolutize
B)diabolize
C)equalize
D)remonetize
E)monopolize

Question 51

_________ acted as an immigrant gateway to New York City from 1892 to 1954.
a. Ellis Island
B. Maryland
C. Rhode Island
D. Connecticut

Question 52

Describe housing in the United States in the late 1800s.

Question 53

The _________ was a political party of the 1890s that championed the "farm" cause of land and crops over the powers of banking and credit.
a. Libertarian Party
B. Democratic Party
C. Republican Party
D. Populist Party

Question 54

Which of the following was a reason for most of the decimation of the bison in the United States during the 1890s?

A)The construction of railroads through the Great Plains
B)The prevalence of the black plague in areas populated by Indians
C)A sudden increase in the number of natural predators in the area
D)The pollution of bodies of water by toxic waste from industries
E)Starvation due to widespread drought in areas populated by Indians

Question 55

Which of the following was the significance of the Dawes Act?

A)It mandated racial segregation in all southern states.
B)It introduced silver to the national currency.
C)It established Indian reservations across the country.
D)It divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land.
E)It awarded 160 acres to settlers who had occupied the land for five years.

Question 56

Which of the following is one of the major industries that shaped the post-Civil War western economy?

A)Textile
B)Railroads
C)Plastic
D)Cotton
E)Cement

Question 57

Which of the following was the Supreme Court case that declared that states could regulate businesses within their borders if those businesses operated in the public interest?

A)Munn v. Illinois
B)Georgia v. Brailsford
C)Calder v. Bull
D)Marbury v. Madison
E)Craig v. Radford

Question 58

Describe the failures of southern industries in the late 1800s.

Question 59

Which of the following were eastern bankers and corporations aiming for when they deliberately kept gold out of circulation in the 1890s?

A)Increase in profits derived from mining industries
B)Public ownership of lands owned by Indian tribes
C)Increase in per capita income of the United States
D)Elimination of immigrants from the United States
E)Sale of large tracts of agricultural land by farmers

Question 60

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the People's Party?

A)It emerged from the farmers' alliances and farm movements of the West.
B)It embraced the gold standard for currencies.
C)It championed nationalization of certain industries and fairer distribution of wealth.
D)It sought to reverse deflation to enable increases in crop prices.
E)It advocated increased political transparency.

Question 61

Summarize the problem of deflation faced by farmers in the United States during the late 1800s.

Question 62

Describe the goals of the Populist Movement.

Question 63

Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Question 64

Explain the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887.

Question 65

Explain the Homestead Act and its impact on industrial farming in the United States.

Question 66

Describe the emergence of bonanza farms in the 1880s.

Question 67

Summarize the reasons for the decline of the populists.

Question 68

Briefly describe the three major industries that shaped the post-Civil War western economy.

Question 69

Explain in brief the rise of southern industry.

Question 70

Discuss the reasons for the rise in immigration in the U.S. between 1880 and 1920.