Which of the following statements best describes the clothing industry in the late nineteenth century?
(e) The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing much more affordable
All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the “new immigrants” of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants
E) dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Which of the following is NOT true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
Though later used for purposes which defied its original intent, the fundamental purpose of the passage of the Sherman Anti-trust Act was to
First measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts; based on power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce & said that any trust that was purposefully restraining interstate trade was illegal.
A. it had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations
b. to restore competition in American business.
Intent of the Dawes Act of 1887
The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to:
The Dawes General Allotment (Severalty) Act was an attempt to assimilate Indians into white culture. Under the Dawes Act, Indian tribes lost legal standing, and tribal lands were divided among the individual members. In exchange for renouncing their tribal holdings, Indians would become American citizens and would receive individual land grants. It shrank Indian reservations considerably.
(A) assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture
Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American
cities at the end of the nineteenth century?
(E) Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.
What was the historical significance of Helen Hunt Jackson’s “A Century of Dishonor?”
Helen Hunt Jackson’ s “A Century of Dishonor” was significant because it aroused public awareness of the
It chronicled the unjust treatment American Indians had received at the hands of the federal government. Indian Rights associations sprang up across the country, and consensus grew that Indians must be helped to become full members of American society.
(C)wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on American Indians
Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?
C. A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
8. The intention behind the creation of Black Codes?
The main purpose of the legislation was to stabilize the black workforce by compelling African Americans to work and by limiting their economic options … The laws aimed to replace the social controls of slavery, which had been legally swept away by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, and to reinstate the substance of the slave system without the legal form.
An “act to define and declare the rights of persons lately knownas Slaves, and Free Persons of Color” refers to which law or laws passed after the Civil War? ←Part of a question?
In the late 19th century, the largest American cities were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
(b) neighborhoods that were increasingly mixed in their economic composition
Know generalities about the Gilded Age when it comes to politics, economics, etc.
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The late 19th century witnessed the birth of modern America. It saw the closing of the Western frontier. Between 1865 and the 1890s, Americans settled more land than during the preceding 250 years of American history. But to open lands west of the Mississippi River to white settlers, the Plains Indians were pushed in a series of Indian wars onto restricted reservations.
This period also witnessed the creation of a modern industrial economy. A national transportation and communication network was created, the corporation became the dominant form of business organization, and a managerial revolution transformed business operations. Long hours and hazardous working conditions led many workers to attempt to form labor unions despite strong opposition from industrialists and the courts.
An era of intense political partisanship, the Gilded Age was also an era of reform. These years also saw the rise of the Populist crusade. Burdened by heavy debts and falling farm prices, many farmers joined the Populist party, which called for an increase in the amount of money in circulation, government assistance to help farmers repay loans, tariff reductions, and a graduated income tax.
The second Sioux War (1875-1876), which saw the defeat of Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, was caused by all the following
EXCEPT
A concentrated effort on the part of the major Protestant denominations to convert the Sioux to Christianity
12. Horizontal & Vertical Integration/Consolidation of business (reasons and definitions).
Horizontal – when a company buys out all of its competition & consolidating with competitors to monopolize a market .Rockefeller did this.
Vertical – Firm A absorbs the smaller firms involved in Firm A’s product’s manufacture, from raw materials to distribution. This controls the quality and eliminates middlemen. Carnegie did this.
The Bessemer Process
a way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities. This made skyscrapers possible, advances in shipbuilding, construction, etc.
What were the major elements of the Radical Republican program implemented during Reconstruction?
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In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American agriculture was characterized by
E.an increase in acres under cultivation
How and why did business use the device of the corporation during the late 1800s?
They used business to gain more profit and they merged the companies together to do this.
Social Darwinism
he application of ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies – used as an argument against social reforms to help the poor.
Protestant Ethic
attitude towards life that includes seriousness of purpose, hard work, and material rewards
“Laissez-faire”
idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
In his Atlanta Compromise speech, Booker T. Washington called for which of the following?
C.Support for African American self-help
Robber Barons vs. Captains of Industry.
Captains of Industry – company owners such as carnegie and rockefeller who built empires and steered the country in the direction of economic prosperity.
Robber Barrons- Industrialists who use cut-thrat tactics to make money. They reaped huge profits by paying employees extremely low wages and driving competitors out of business by selling product at a lower price than it cost to produce it. Once the market was controlled prices were increased above orgiginal levels. Basically these rich fat cats grabbed industry by the balls and nobody could to anything about it because they lived in a fanfiction.
Which of the following best explains the influence of yellow journals on U.S. foreign policy in the 1890’s?
A) sensational news stories stirred the anger of the American public
23. What was the major cause of the 1894 Pullman strike?
Pullman and maintained a company town. When the depression hit, wages were cut one third, but the rent and living expenses remained the same. Eugene V. Debs and the strikers (which is coincidentally my band’s name) got pissed and they were like FUQ THE SYSTEM MAN and yeah
24. When was each of the following invented: The electric light, Public water systems, the skyscraper, the telephone, the trolley car?
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United States before and after the Civil War was that most of the
b. immigrants before the Civil War quickly assimilated
into American society.
26. What was the most important factor that channeled groups of immigrants into specific occupations in late 19th century America?
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The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on?
The major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a study of?
life in an American urban slum
29. What were important social institutions which facilitated the assimilation of Catholics immigrants into American life during the late 1800s and early 1900s?
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A fundamental difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was that the Knights
a. welcomed all skilled and unskilled workers, blacks, and women
b. focused exclusively on issues of higher wages and better working conditions.
c. restricted their membership to skilled workers in each trade.
a. welcomed all skilled and unskilled workers, blacks, and women
31. What was the most important consequence of the Haymarket Square Bombing of 1886?
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