APUSH FINAL - Day 1

What was the primary driver of the rise of the Gilded Age in the United States?

1. End of the civil war, industry improvements, technological inventions, mass production and distribution, railroads, resources, labor, capital for investments, federal land grants

According to the theory of Social Darwinism, how is progress achieved, and what hinders it?

1. Progress is achieved by simply letting “evolution” do it’s work

2. Progress is hindered by trying to help the “lesser” such as the poorer classes with legislation 

What political alignment is described by the term “Solid South” after Reconstruction?

1. Southern states that primarily only supported Democratic states - and did not switch or budge

For approximately how long did the political alignment described by “Solid South” persist?

1. 1877 to 1964

What did hundreds of thousands of Americans hope to achieve by migrating West after 1870?

1. Land and wealth 

What percentage of the workforce that built the first transcontinental railroad was comprised of Chinese workers?

1. Almost all of them 

How did General Willliam Tecumseh Sherman summarize the U.S. government’s policy towards Native Americans?

1.  By relocating them into reserves and forcing them to assimilate into white society 

From which regions of Europe did the majority of new immigrants to America typically come beginning in the 1880s?

1. South and Eastern Europe 

   1. Ireland, England, Germany, and Scandinavia

What was the primary focus for Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of Labor?

1. Negotiating with higher-ups for better wages and working conditions for the workers

What cultural ideology typically constrained middle-class American women throughout much of the nineteenth century?

1. Idea that it was in their nature to be weak and dependent, must work just inside the home 

What were the primary sources of farmers’ dissatisfaction in the late nineteenth century?

1. Falling agricultural prices, sharecropping trapping citizens into poverty, glut of cotton, high freight rates 

What was the main demand of the National Woman Suffrage Association, formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?

1. Women’s suffrage

Why did Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan and others advocate U.S. expansion in the 1890s?

1. No nation could thrive without a large fleet of ships involved in international trade, 

What characterized progressives in the years between 1890 and 1916?

1. Being more “forward-thinking”, often being business-men who realized their workers needed better conditions, humanize industrial comp

What was President Theodore Roosevelt’s preferred approach to dealing with trusts?

1. Sherman Antitrust Act

2. Direct federal regulation of economy