Unit 6 Point Redemption – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
1. "Machine politics" was
answer
a. a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban areas
question
2. Which of the following functions was not typically performed by political bosses and precinct captains?
answer
b. They ran settlement houses
question
3. Which of the following pieces of legislations is correctly paired with its effect?
answer
c. Currency Act of 1900: set aside a gold reserve that could be legally exchanged for paper currency
question
5.. What event triggered the Panic of 1893?
answer
a. The collapse of the railroad
question
8. What was the main importance of the government's establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission?
answer
a. It established the principle of federal government regulation of interstate transportation
question
10. Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?
answer
e. The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters
question
14. Which of the following was not a goal of the Populist and Farmer's Alliance movement?
answer
c. a higher protective tariff
question
17. What happened to James Garfield's presidency?
answer
b. It never really got started since he was assassinated soon after coming to office
question
18. What was the Grange (the patrons of Husbandry)?
answer
e. an organization of farmers
question
22. Where was the Democratic party strongest in the late 19th century?
answer
a. South
question
25. How did the settlement house movement distinguish itself form other urban social-welfare organizations?
answer
c. It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor
question
26. Who established the Hull House?
answer
b. Jane Addams
question
27. Which of the following people established an inner-city church to reach out to the poor?
answer
b. William S. Rainsford
question
31. The Young Men's Christian Association and The Young Women's Christian Association were formed mainly to...
answer
a. assist rural young men and women who migrated to the city
question
33. Mary Harris Jones
answer
a. was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families
question
35. Who argued that "The law of survival of the fittest was not made by the man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only
answer
b. William Graham Sumner
question
20. What did the Pendleton Act do?
answer
a. It established a civil-service commision
question
36. What did Karl Marx argue?
answer
d. the capitalist would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt
question
38. Which of the following is not one of the reasons that the American Federation of Labor was the most successful union in the late 19th century?
answer
d. It was a tightly organized federation that required all members to give up their autonomy and independence for the good of the whole.
question
39. What did Henry Grady advocate?
answer
c. He advocated diversifying the economy and expanding industrial production in the South.
question
41. Which of the following was one of the secrets of John D. Rockefeller?
answer
a. He paid attention to minutest details and understood the benefits of vertical integration.
question
42. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
answer
e. outlawed trusts and other monopolies that fixed prices in restraint of trade.
question
43. In the United States v. Knight Company, the Supreme Court diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by ruling that
answer
a. manufacturing was not interstate commerce.
question
48. Where did Andrew Carnegie learn many of the successful management methods he used in the steel?
answer
c. as a foreman in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
question
50. Which of the following statements concerning the United States Steel Company is true?
answer
c. It was the first business capitalized at more than $1 billion.
question
51. Besides the fact that its all-inclusive membership undermined its unity, why did the Knights of Labor collapse in the late 1880s?
answer
a. Workers became disillusioned when a series of unauthorized strikes failed.
question
53. Which of the following statements concerning the use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is true?
answer
c. It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor.
question
54. Which of the following is not one of the ways that Andrew Carnegie revolutionized the steel industry?
answer
d. restructuring the criteria for wages so that his workers could have the highest wage scales in the country.
question
55. The 1898 Curtis Act
answer
c. dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments.
question
60. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West
answer
c. presented mock battles of army scouts and Indians as morality dramas of good versus evil.
question
62. The Treaty of Fort Laramie led to the
answer
b. establishment of the Great Sioux Reserve in what is now South Dakota.
question
64. The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to
answer
d. undermine tribal bonds by treating Indians as individuals.
question
69. Which of the following statements concerning "Buffalo Bill" Cody is not true?
answer
c. He represented the American government in negotiations with the Apache
question
72. Which of the following was not one of the principles advocated by Terrence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor?
answer
e. widespread and aggressive use of strikes.
question
77. Who supported the New South Creed?
answer
a. industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.
question
78. How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s?
answer
b. Southern cotton mills were located in the countryside rather than in the cities.