Deck 16: America’s Gilded Age,1870-1890

Question 1

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is:

A) Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.
B) an immigrant's purchase of bread.
C) the free services handed out by social reformers.
D) John D. Rockefeller's purchase of a competing company.
E) the social welfare services of European nations like Germany.

Answer 1

Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie and John D.Rockefeller:

A) faced no criticism for their business practices.
B) led the way in social reform.
C) advocated government regulation of business.
D) built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
E) were both immigrants.

Answer 2

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

Question 3

Why did western territories take longer than eastern territories to achieve statehood?

A) Many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon populations.
B) Local leaders were hostile to federal involvement in territorial affairs and resisted calls for statehood.
C) Long-term warfare with native peoples made the establishment of stable communities difficult for white settlers.
D) The Mormon and Latino populations in these areas did not grow rapidly enough to reach the requisite numbers for statehood.
E) Settlers experienced more difficulty than easterners had moving native peoples off the territory.

Answer 3

Many easterners were wary of granting statehood until white and non-Mormon settlers counterbalanced the large Latino and Mormon populations.

Question 4

Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West?

A) Scientific mining techniques introduced by corporate engineers displaced independent prospectors.
B) Lumber companies decimated coastal forests, inspiring the twentieth-century conservation movement.
C) Urban populations in California declined as people moved to the centers of agricultural production.
D) Communal landholdings in New Mexico were taken over by commercial farmers and ranchers.
E) The necessary investments were beyond the means of the average farmer.

Question 5

How did expanding agricultural production in places like Argentina and the American West lead to the migration of rural populations to cities?

A) Increasing output in the countryside created a new prosperity that allowed rural populations to travel.
B) Since the growing agricultural output attracted ever-larger numbers of immigrants to the countryside, the older generations of rural settlers left for the cities.
C) Increasing output worldwide pushed down the prices of farm products, making it more difficult for farmers to make ends meet.
D) New production methods that were at the heart of growing farm productivity alienated many rural folks familiar with traditional farming practices.
E) Peasants made such tidy profits in agriculture that they could afford to move to cities.

Question 6

By 1890,the majority of Americans:

A) worked as farmers.
B) worked as independent craftsmen.
C) worked in the mining industry.
D) were moving into the middle class.
E) worked for wages.

Question 7

Bonanza farms:

A) were small, self-sufficient farms.
B) were the sharecropping farms found in the South.
C) typically had thousands of acres of land or more.
D) were free homesteads in California.
E) were settled along the railroad lines of the Union Pacific.

Question 8

Why did new products like Ivory Soap and Quaker Oats symbolize the continuing integration of the economy in America's Gilded Age?

A) They were consumer products manufactured with new technologies.
B) These products catered particularly to the appetites and desires of new immigrants.
C) These products were exemplary for the way in which mass consumption raised everyone's living standards.
D) These products were national brands, sold everywhere across the United States thanks to the expanding railroad network.
E) These products were examples of how Gilded Age technologies helped develop the sustainable use of materials.

Question 9

Thomas Edison:

A) invented the typewriter.
B) was a governor of New Jersey.
C) pioneered the use of the telephone.
D) was a railroad owner.
E) invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

Question 10

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

A) a return to handmade goods.
B) a more equalized distribution of wealth.
C) the rapid expansion of industry across the South.
D) the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.
E) a decline in the growth of cities.

Question 11

Why was the Hollywood version of the western "cowboy" based more on fantasy than reality?

A) Railroad expansion before the Civil War had eliminated the need for "cattle drives" from Texas.
B) Most cowboys were low-paid workers, some of whom even went on strike for higher wages.
C) By the time of the Civil War, most open-range longhorns had been decimated by disease and harsh winters.
D) Clothing such as wide-brimmed hats and boots were twentieth-century inventions of writers and movie producers.
E) Many worked as cowboys for a short time before moving on to other employment.

Question 12

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

A) availability of capital for investment.
B) a growing supply of labor.
C) abundant natural resources.
D) low tariffs.
E) federal land grants to railroads.

Question 13

What criticism did Henry Demarest Lloyd leverage against Rockefeller's Standard Oil in Wealth against Commonwealth (1892)?

A) Rockefeller's oil corporation was excessively competitive.
B) Standard Oil was overcharging end-consumers of their products.
C) Standard Oil was employing more foreigners than Americans.
D) Rockefeller's corporation was violating regulations at the New York stock market.
E) Standard Oil was undermining fair competition in the marketplace.

Question 14

How did the expansion of railroads accelerate the second industrial revolution in America?

A) The division of time into four zones allowed businesses to communicate by telegraph for the first time.
B) Railroads created a true national market for U.S. goods.
C) Large banks were now able to locate in western railroad towns.
D) The adoption of a standard railroad gauge made private and federal land grants more available.
E) The expansion of trains increased the efficiency of small businesses.

Question 15

Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age?

A) They wanted to cut each other out from the market.
B) They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitors.
C) They hoped to gather enough capital in a pool in order to buy out their largest and most dangerous competitor.
D) They wanted to share their assets in order to maintain liquidity in times of financial panic.
E) They were sharing patents for new technologies in the railroad industry.

Question 16

The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:

A) dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.
B) insignificant.
C) concentrated in the cities.
D) beneficial to Indians.
E) significant only for native-born whites.

Question 17

How were skilled workers able to secure new freedoms for themselves in rapidly expanding industries?

A) Their knowledge allowed them to control the production process and the training of apprentices.
B) They had the ability to advance to managerial positions and from there into the executive boardrooms of big industry.
C) They were able to market their skills by training young apprentices in exchange for high fees.
D) The ownership and control over their shops and tools made their trades unattractive for industrial competition.
E) Skilled workers tended to be more radical and used strikes and violent uprisings to secure better wages.

Question 18

What did Native Americans have in common with the Zulu of South Africa and the aboriginal people in Australia?

A) They belonged to some of the most ancient agricultural civilizations in the world.
B) They all looked to central governments for protection and assistance in their struggle against white supremacist settlers.
C) They found themselves pushed aside by centralizing government trying to control large interior regions.
D) They all saw themselves pulled into the vicious debt cycle that accompanied cotton sharecropping.
E) Both groups saw such little chance at advancing in civil rights that they resorted to emigration.

Question 19

One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was:

A) a more stable economy.
B) frequent and prolonged economic depressions.
C) higher prices.
D) a more equitable distribution of wealth.
E) the introduction of socialism.

Question 20

In How the Other Half Lives,Jacob Riis:

A) highlighted the benefits of the second industrial revolution.
B) discussed the lives of wealthy Americans.
C) focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.
D) provided a fictional account of life in 1890.
E) wrote about captains of industry.

Question 21

The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn:

A) was typical at the time.
B) only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.
C) brought an end to the hostilities.
D) came after an unprovoked attack by Indians.
E) resulted in no U.S. army casualties.

Question 22

What was the aim of Carlisle,a boarding school for Indians?

A) To prepare them for reservation life.
B) To train them in the professional skills necessary to return to the reservations as doctors and teachers.
C) To convert them to Christianity so that they would become missionaries on the reservations.
D) To civilize the Indians, making them "American," as whites defined the term.
E) To prepare them to enlist in the U.S. military.

Question 23

Chief Joseph:

A) advocated greater federal control of Indians.
B) starred in a Wild West show.
C) was at the Little Bighorn.
D) supported the reservation system.
E) wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

Question 24

The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT:

A) a period of corruption and corporate domination of politics.
B) the years between 1870 and 1890.
C) the title of an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley.
D) an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally.
E) the remarkable economic expansion of the time period.

Question 25

The Civil Service Act of 1883:

A) created a merit system for government workers.
B) favored candidates with political influence.
C) was passed in response to the assassination of President Lincoln.
D) applied only to women.
E) applied only to elected officeholders.

Question 26

How did the displacement of native peoples in Australia differ from the experience of Indians in the American West?

A) Aboriginals were gathered together into centralized areas set aside by the government.
B) White diseases decimated Aboriginals.
C) Government policy orchestrated the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes for official adoption by whites.
D) Aboriginals were subject to cultural reconstruction.
E) Aboriginals were well compensated for their land.

Question 27

Which of the following most accurately describes the relationship between the government and the economy in the Gilded Age?

A) State and local governments diminished in scope and purpose, as the federal government extended its control of business and banking regulation.
B) The rise of the Republican Party in national politics signaled new growth in the national government and a new commitment to breaking up monopolies.
C) Politicians of both major parties favored business and banks and supported a reduction in the money supply and a return to the gold standard.
D) Western state governments lobbied to block new tariffs that would raise the price of manufactured goods and bankrupt farmers.
E) State and local government increased in scale while the federal government decreased.

Question 28

Elections during the Gilded Age:

A) suffered from low voter turnout.
B) brought an end to Democratic control of the South.
C) were closely contested affairs.
D) suffered from a lack of party loyalty among voters.
E) were generally quiet affairs with few rallies or speeches.

Question 29

Which of the following was included in theatrical and dime novel depictions of the American West?

A) The role of the federal government in the region's development.
B) Labor conflicts in western mines.
C) The growth of cities in the Pacific Northwest.
D) Amazing feats of skilled horseback riding, roping, and shooting.
E) The demise of cattle drives.

Question 30

The Plains Indians:

A) were completely responsible for the near extinction of the buffalo.
B) had lived in peace until the Civil War.
C) encouraged the influx of white settlers.
D) included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux.
E) were treated fairly by the federal government.

Question 31

Why did President James Buchanan replace Utah's territorial governor Brigham Young with a non-Mormon appointee in 1857?

A) Brigham Young had advocated for slavery in the trans-Mississippi West.
B) Mormons had slaughtered more than 100 settlers in the Mountain Meadows massacre.
C) Brigham Young was a known polygamist.
D) It became known that the work of federal judges in Utah was being obstructed.
E) Under Young, Utah had granted Native Americans equal citizenship.

Question 32

Why was William Tweed so popular with the city's immigrant poor?

A) He was willing to speak truth to power.
B) He fought hard for more liberal immigration laws.
C) He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes.
D) He uncovered much of the corruption in the city of New York and introduced crucial political reforms.
E) He himself was a recent immigrant with roots in German proto-socialist movements.

Question 33

Which of the following statements about nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants to the United States is accurate?

A) Unlike Europeans, Chinese immigrants were too poor to send letters or money home to relatives.
B) After the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, most Chinese immigrants were unable to find additional work and returned to China.
C) Chinese immigrants rarely worked in western mines after the Civil War, thanks to Anglo resentment and the lack of demand for cheap labor.
D) By 1880, three-fourths of Chinese immigrants lived in California, where many worked on farms.
E) Most women migrated east via the transcontinental railroad to work as domestics.

Question 34

According to the authors of the Dawes Severalty Act,what constituted a civilized life for Native Americans in the later nineteenth century?

A) Skilled work and tenement life in industrial cities.
B) A hunting and gathering economy and nomadic lifestyle.
C) Individual property ownership and farming on family plots.
D) Tribal life and autonomy on the nation's reservations.
E) Employment in the tourism industry and public land management.

Question 35

Chinese immigrants to the West:

A) were exclusively single men, particularly after the Civil War.
B) concentrated primarily in the Pacific Northwest, where lumber and fishing jobs were plentiful.
C) grew to several million in number by the 1890s, due to the absence of federal immigration quotas.
D) worked in shoe and cigar factories in western cities.
E) were exclusively women working as domestics.

Question 36

The Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 to:

A) distribute land allocations to railroad companies.
B) standardize the transportation of animal feed between states.
C) oversee state taxes.
D) regulate railroad gauge size.
E) ensure that railroads charged farmers and merchants reasonable and fair rates.

Question 37

Crédit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring:

A) were international corporations.
B) were involved in steel production.
C) were owned by Andrew Carnegie.
D) donated money to the poor.
E) were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration.

Question 38

William Cody:

A) invented a form of public entertainment called vaudeville.
B) created a "Wild West" show that toured the United States and Europe.
C) was defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
D) never traveled west of the Mississippi River.
E) was a colonel in the U.S. army.

Question 39

Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:

A) a distant, timeless place, uncorrupted by civilization.
B) isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.
C) a violent frontier recounted through dime novels and prolific newspaper stories.
D) a spectacle of adventure as portrayed by vaudeville shows featuring famous battle reenactments and real Indian warriors.
E) an uncivilized space that ended at the Rocky mountains.

Question 40

The Ghost Dance:

A) was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.
B) was seen as harmless.
C) was approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
D) brought Indians and whites together in a cultural celebration.
E) ushered in a new era of Indian wars.

Question 41

How did the American Catholic Church act during the Gilded Age?

A) American Catholics grew increasingly apart from their fellow believers in Europe.
B) The American Catholic Church saw a growing number of clergy advocate social justice and reform.
C) Afraid of a schism between wealthy and poor Catholics, the Church instead turned its attention to the defense of marriage and parental control.
D) Overwhelmed by the radicals of largely Catholic southern European labor organizers, the Church distanced itself from its traditional stand for social justice and equality.
E) Eager to ward off criticisms of "papal rule," the American Catholic Church denounced the Vatican.

Question 42

The Supreme Court in Lochner v.New York:

A) voided a state law establishing that bakers could work a maximum of sixty hours per week.
B) limited the number of hours coal miners worked.
C) voided a state law that limited child labor.
D) voided a state law that limited the number of hours women could work.
E) ruled that "liberty of contract" undermined workers' rights.

Question 43

Which of the following properly assesses the direction of the "Christian lobby" in the Gilded Age?

A) These mainstream Protestant reformers looked for structural change.
B) These Christian political organizations focused primarily on civil rights issues.
C) The "Christian lobby" sought more to legislate individual morality rather than to improve society.
D) Activists from the Bible Belt steered clear of hot-button issues like sexual violence or birth control.
E) Protestant reformers of the Gilded Age typically made common cause with labor unions.

Question 44

In the late nineteenth century,social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy,Henry George,and Laurence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change,primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of:

A) class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.
B) increasing power of the executive branch of government and lack of checks and balances.
C) the rapid migration of African-Americans from the South to the industrial North, and their increased voting power.
D) the increased numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who brought dangerous socialist ideas to the masses.
E) the momentum gained by women in their efforts to win suffrage and other rights in the public realm.

Question 45

The Grange was an organization that:

A) pushed for the eight-hour day.
B) sought to raise railroad rates.
C) opposed government regulation of shipping charges.
D) pushed for railroads to acquire more land in the West.
E) established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output.

Question 46

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of wage labor in industrializing America during the Gilded Age?

A) More and more Americans viewed wage labor as a temporary stop on the path to independence.
B) Unfree working conditions in Gilded Age industries largely made traditional wage labor a thing of the past.
C) Workers understood wage labor to be the key advantage of American industries over European competitors.
D) More and more Americans experienced wage labor as a permanent condition on the edge of poverty.
E) The introduction of freelancing and independent contract work made wage labor increasingly irrelevant.

Question 47

The Knights of Labor:

A) was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.
B) organized only skilled, white, native-born workers.
C) did not admit women.
D) never had more than a few hundred members.
E) cooperated with big business.

Question 48

Henry George offered a(n)__________ as a solution for the problem of inequality in America.

A) low-income housing program
B) single tax
C) immigration restriction law
D) Communist platform
E) forced Americanization program

Question 49

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890?

A) The passage of the law was a Republican triumph in an era of Democratic dominance.
B) The law triggered an avalanche of frivolous lawsuits that would tarnish the reputation of anti-monopolists for years.
C) The law was so finely grained and complicated that few prosecutors in the country dared to apply it.
D) The law established a precedent that the national government could regulate the economy in the interest of the public good.
E) The law had the unintended consequence of empowering unions and socialist organizations.

Question 50

What did the books of Henry George,Laurence Gronlond,and Edward Bellamy all have in common?

A) They relied on the new narrative style of science fiction to forecast the decline of the United States.
B) They all sparkled with unique economic observations but lacked ideas for reform or change.
C) They all praised the liberty and freedom of the American market economy, yet were all written by immigrants.
D) They all offered decidedly optimistic remedies for the unequal distribution of wealth.
E) They all relied heavily on the latest trends in sociological research.

Question 51

"Liberal" reformers of the Gilded Age believed:

A) wealth inequality was inevitable in modern society.
B) individual liberty and property rights were threatened by the business classes.
C) lower-class groups could strengthen democracy by using government to advance their interests.
D) Reconstruction was largely a mistake.
E) wealth inequality could be corrected through workers' hard work.

Question 52

The nineteenth-century labor movement argued that:

A) concentrated capital was not the enemy but that corrupt politicians were.
B) extremes of wealth and poverty threatened democracy.
C) strikes and walkouts were exclusively a male preserve.
D) meaningful freedom could exist in conditions of economic inequality, but only if the government did not oppress workers.
E) capital should be concentrated among the laborers.

Question 53

The Greenback-Labor Party:

A) wanted banks to control the money supply.
B) wanted the federal government to stop taking money out of circulation.
C) wanted to decrease the money supply.
D) was unable to elect any of its candidates, even on the local level.
E) supported the use of force against striking workers.

Question 54

Which of the following properly compares the U.S.Supreme Court's approach to organization in business and labor during the Gilded Age?

A) Whereas the Court rejected the organization of big business on constitutional grounds, it supported workers' right to organize.
B) The Court used the Sherman Antitrust Act liberally for the breakup of business and labor organizations.
C) While the Court applied the Sherman Antitrust Act to break down unions, it proved unwilling to endorse any regulation of big business.
D) Understanding the dynamics of the new industrial age, the Supreme Court allowed workers as well as businesses to organize powerful and centralized institutions.
E) The Supreme Court refused to apply the Sherman Antitrust Act against unions or business on the grounds that the law itself was unconstitutional.

Question 55

Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is FALSE?

A) A bomb exploded, killing a police officer.
B) The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket.
C) Employers took the opportunity to paint the labor movement as a dangerous and un-American force prone to violence and controlled by foreign-born radicals.
D) Seven of the eight men accused of plotting the Haymarket bombing were foreign born.
E) Laborers were gathered at Haymarket Square to demonstrate for an eight-hour workday.

Question 56

Which statement about the theory of Social Darwinism is FALSE?

A) The theory borrowed language from Charles Darwin.
B) The theory argued that evolution was as natural a process in human society as in nature and that government must not interfere.
C) The theory argued that failure to advance in society indicated a lack of character.
D) The theory argued that freedom required frank acceptance of inequality.
E) The theory argued that the "deserving poor" only included children.

Question 57

Which of the following properly assesses the significance of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

A) The strike signaled the power of labor unions and the beginning of the socialist challenge to American democracy.
B) The event highlighted the need for Republicans to address southern economic inequality, not only racial discrimination.
C) The railroad strike signaled the nation's shift from southern reconstruction to the question of labor and class tensions.
D) The strike underlined the rising expectations among industrial workers in times of economic growth and prosperity.
E) The strike marked the beginning of the end of the railroad industry and prompted the development of the automobile.

Question 58

The new social order of the Gilded Age:

A) prompted public discussion of class differences and debate among workingmen and farmers over political economy.
B) ensured ongoing labor strife and deepening distrust between employees and employers.
C) divided CEOs and stockholders into pro-labor and anti-labor camps.
D) A and B
E) B and C

Question 59

The Social Gospel:

A) was another term for Social Darwinism.
B) was financed by corporate donations.
C) was part of the Catholic Church.
D) called for an equalization of wealth and power.
E) did not support aid to the poor.

Question 60

What did William G.Sumner believe social classes owed each other?

A) Cooperation, in order to move ahead.
B) A redistribution of wealth.
C) Nothing at all.
D) Respect and equality.
E) A spirit of kinship to fix the ills of society together.

Question 61

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Jacob Riis

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 62

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
vertical integration

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 63

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
gilded

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 64

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Sitting Bull

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 65

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
social gospel

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 66

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Henry George

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 67

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
trusts

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 68

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Walter Rauschenbusch

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 69

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Nicola Tesla

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 70

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Edward Bellamy

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 71

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Chief Joseph

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 72

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Civil Service Act

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 73

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
conspicuous consumption

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 74

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
William G.Sumner

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 75

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Thomas Edison

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 76

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Terence Powderly

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 77

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Dawes Act

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 78

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
John D.Rockefeller

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor

Question 79

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
horizontal integration

A)merit system for federal employees
B)believed that equality of wealth was required for freedom
C)a corrupt political machine
D)a combination of corporations to establish a monopoly
E)Indians were not American citizens
F)buying out one's competitors
G)controlling every phase of a business
H)broke up tribal lands
I)spending money simply to show off wealth
J)survival of the fittest
K)covered in gold
L)covered thousands of acres

Question 80

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Andrew Carnegie

A)Social Gospel movement
B)steel industrial giant
C)Progress and Poverty
D)Knights of Labor
E)electric motor
F)How the Other Half Lives
G)winner at the Little Bighorn
H)utopian novelist
I)Social Darwinist
J)oil industrial giant
K)Nez Percé
L)inventor