Chapter 3 Quiz

A  1880

B  1920

C  1900

D  1910

E  1890

A  All of these are accurate

B  Was immediately challenged in the courts by big business, resulting in diminishing its power

C  Created the Interstate Commerce Commission with significant power and funding to investigate abusive business practices

D  Aimed at regulating railroads and their monopolistic practices

E  Exemplifies the strong role the federal government took in regulating business practices

A  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

B  Edward Drake and oil drilling

C  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

D  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

E  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

A  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

B  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

C  All of these

D  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

E  Expansion of mass transportation

A  Overseas immigration

B  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

C  Domestic rural to urban migration

D  All of these

E  Industrialization

A  The federal government used the armed forces as a tool for clearing lands for American settlers in the West, thus boosting agriculture and growth of markets.

B  Congress supported domestic production by imposing tariffs on foreign imports.

C  Congress actively attempted to regulate labor relations to boost industrial production.

D  It provided financial support for railroad companies through land grants.

E  Congress passed legislation to encourage westward expansion and thus expansion of agriculture and markets.

A  Tariff

B  Value added

C  Property

D  Land

E  Excise

A  Governments have a social responsibility towards the poor to uplift them

B  Natural selection among our ancestors resulted in the rise of Christianity and its moral values that should guide individuals in their treatment of the disadvantaged.

C  The wealthy are wealthy because of their strength and they therefore have a responsibility to assist the less fortunate.

D  Because social forces complicate the natural pressures of evolution, the best way to improve humankind is government regulation of human breeding patterns

E  The laws of evolution mean that social progress results only when we allow the strongest to rise to the top, without government intervention.

A  Became the symbol to many of the need for strong labor unions

B  Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America

C  Employed mostly young women who had recently immigrated to the US

D  Was the location of a devastating fire in 1911 that brought into focus the woefully lacking protections of American workers

E  Is represented by all of the statements above

A  Her confrontational style earned her the nickname “the most dangerous woman in America.”

B  She was an ardent support of labor rights.

C  She came to the United States as an immigrant.

D  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

E  She was jailed several times for her activism.

A  False

B  True

A  Railroads

B  Steel

C  Oil

D  Food

E  Banking

A  Disease epidemics

B  Poor quality of public services

C  Lack of affordable housing

D  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

E  Poverty

A  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

B  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

C  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

D  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

E  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

A  All of these describe the middle class in industrial America.

B  They underscored education for their children.

C  They emphasized a separation between the home and the public sphere of work and politics.

D  They increasingly moved away from the central cities into the emerging suburban neighborhoods.

E  They created a self-identity that relied on hard work, discipline and morality.