Exam 1 S2 DCUSH

The significance of the Frontier in American History" lecture concluded what about the West?

The movement westward acted as a safety valve that counteracted the threat of social unrest.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the experiences of many semiskilled industrial workers in American factories during the Gilded Age?

Working conditions were dangerous and unstable, and workers often lacked any protection.

Why is the period between 1870-1890 known as the "Gilded Age"?

While there was a generalized idea that America was doing well on the surface, it masked corruption, oppression, and poverty.

The court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Argued that segregated facilities did not discriminate.

The availability of land like that provided in the Homestead Act gave rise to

The Turner thesis that free/cheap land existed as a safety valve for people to escape from the East to the democracy of the West.

In his "Gospel of Wealth," Andrew Carnegie articulated the view that

The wealthy were morally obligated to use some of their wealth for the improvement of society.

Why was William Tweed so popular w/NYC's immigrant poor?

He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes.

Which of the following statements about the Haymarket Affair is correct?

The explosion of a bomb during the protest fueled employers' efforts to paint the labor movement as dangerous and un-American.

How did John D. Rockefeller use horizontal integration?

He bought out competing oil refining companies.

The Homestead Act was based on principles established by Thomas Jefferson which advocated

An agrarian economy of yeoman farmers tilling their own land.

What was the purpose and approach of the Dawes Act?

To attack "tribalism" by dividing the land of nearly all tribes and distributing it to Indian families.

Most progressives were united under which of the following set of beliefs?

The human progress was possible and that purposeful human intervention in the life of society was necessary.

The above excerpt best reflects the changing nature of government policies towards the American Indian by the late 19th century in which of the following ways?

A shift from a policy of isolating the tribes from white society to one of assimilation.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire -

Led to legislation aimed at improving factory safety standards.

Which statement best describes politics in the Gilded Age?

The era was characterized by corrupt politicians and party machines that sought personal enrichment through bribes and graft.

Which of the following was typical of agreements such as the Fort Laramie Treaty between the United States government and American Indians in the post-Civil War West?

They usually lasted a short time before being broken by settlers' incursions onto American Indian reservations.

The language in the above excerpt would imply that the legislation was enacted to most address which of the following concerns?

While laborers' fears of unemployment and being undercut in wages.

At the turn of the 20th century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

Directed their attention to improving urban living conditions.

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial & urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as

Muckrakers

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle, led to Pure FDA of 1906, which created the FDA to guarantee the safety and purity of all food products.

Robert LaFollette

Organizer against sweatshops and an advocate for children's rights

Florence Kelley

Pioneered the settlement house movement.

Jacob Riis

Captured powerful images of the suffering he witnessed in poor NYC neighborhoods.

Ida Tarbell

Exposed corruption behind one of the largest trusts, Standard Oil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Africans should fight for equal rights and higher opportunities, rather than passively submit to the segregation and discrimination.

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis

Focused on the wretched conditions of NY slums.

What did Social Darwinists believe?

They believed that human progress was a natural process and therefore, the government should not interfere with it.

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910.

To refer to a group of people who wanted to bring change to America.

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

To civilize the Indians, making them "Americans," as whites defined the term.

The conditions shown in the image depict which of the following trends in the late nineteenth century?

The growing gap between the rich and poor.