Period 6 Quiz

Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?

Steel plows and other farm machinery

Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?

Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land.

Which of the following statements describes women's experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?

Women living in the West tended to have more independence and could vote earlier than women on the East coast

Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek massacre?

A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia.

Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920?

They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home.

The Knights of Labor advocated which of the following reforms in their 1878 platform?

Workplace safety laws and an 8 Hour workday

What did Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and Swift and Company have in common?

They succeeded through vertical and/or horizontal integration.

Which of the following resulted from industrialization in the decades after the Civil War?

A higher standard of living

Which of the following was true for middle-class families in the late nineteenth century?

Smaller family sizes allowed parents to focus their resources and increase their social mobility.

Which of the following was a reason American business embraced baseball in the late nineteenth century?

The game was a wholesome way to promote discipline and teamwork.

Which of the following describes the consumer culture that emerged in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States?

Modern and innovative

Protestant churches that espoused the Social Gospel

taught that Christians should fight for social justice and the public welfare.

Which of the following statements most characterizes residential patterns in the typical American city around 1900?

Immigrants from a particular region of a country tended to settle by ethnic group.

To what did the Tammany ward boss George Washington Plunkitt refer when he talked about "honest graft"?

Profiting from insider status

Which of the following made the growth of skyscrapers possible?

The development of steel girders, plate glass, and elevators

Which of the following statements describes immigrants' accommodation to city life in the United States around 1900?

Many relied on native-language newspapers, the conviviality of saloons, and the assistance of mutual aid societies.

Why were the presidents in office during the period from 1877 to 1895 generally undistinguished and ineffectual?

Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands.

Advocates of free silver believed it would

encourage borrowing and stimulate industry

During the Gilded Age, which of these groups generally voted Republican?

Blacks in the North

One of Woodrow Wilson's most notable accomplishments was the __________.

creation of the Federal Reserve system

What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide to the working-class people they served through settlement houses in early twentieth-century cities?

The resources and political voice they needed to improve their lives

As a result of the Dawes Severalty Act, Indian tribes

lost almost two-thirds of their land

The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against Chinese in nineteenth-century California by

barring Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882.

Which of the following arguments did Andrew Carnegie make in his famous 1889 essay "Wealth" (later called "The Gospel of Wealth")?

Successful entrepreneurs were obligated to share their wealth in the interest of public good through education and other causes.

Which of the following was a consequence of mass production?

Skilled workers gradually lost their autonomy.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), founded in 1873, was the first national movement to

identify and fight against domestic violence

Which of the following statements describes Charles Darwin's theories as presented in his book On the Origin of Species?

Animals and plants adapt to better suit their environment through natural selection.

Which of the following describes the urban political machines of the late nineteenth century?

Machines acted as social service agencies, providing assistance in times of trouble.

Why was Margaret Sanger's newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" significant?

It contributed to launching a national birth control movement.

Which of these played a key role in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 election?

Roosevelt's decision to run as a Progressive Party candidate

The goals of Progressivism could be summarized as a desire to

establish government regulation for industry and labor conditions.

Which of the following was a result of the laws passed to disenfranchise blacks across the South in the 1890s and early 1900s?

Segregation laws proliferated and daytime lynching increased.

Which of the following was a consequence of the removal of bison from the Great Plains following the Civil War?

...of the sustenance, making it easier to force them onto reservations.

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

The massacre of the Lakotas there stands as an indictment of the U.S Indian policy and western expansionism.

Question about Clayton Antitrust Act

Amended Sherman Antitrust Act

Question about Pendleton Civil Service Act

[Pendleton] Civil Service Act

Why were labor unions so often unsuccessful in their attempts to exercise control over working conditions?

Unions were not successful because they did not have enough members, legislators would not pass effective laws, and the courts supported the business owners. ^Not the exact answer

Why was the AFL more successful than the Knights of Labor?

The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours and working conditions.

Question about Wabash vs. Illinois court case

Lead to creation of interstate commerce commission

Which IS NOT one of the issues addressed in a significant way by the Theodore Roosevelt administration?

Rates and consolidation in the railroad industry

Which of the following progressive reforms amended the Sherman Act to prevent trusts from curbing competition?

Clayton Antitrust Act

Constitutional Amendments of the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT

imposing poll taxes