Chapter 3 Quiz

A  1890

B  1920

C  1900

D  1910

E  1880

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

B  Aimed at regulating railroads and their monopolistic practices

C  All of these are accurate

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

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

A  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

B  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

C  Edward Drake and oil drilling

D  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

E  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

A  All of these

B  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

C  Expansion of mass transportation

D  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

E  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

A  Overseas immigration

B  All of these

C  Industrialization

D  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

E  Domestic rural to urban migration

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

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

C  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.

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

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

A  Value added

B  Land

C  Tariff

D  Excise

E  Property

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

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

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

D  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.

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  Employed mostly young women who had recently immigrated to the US

C  Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America

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  She was an ardent support of labor rights.

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

C  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

D  She came to the United States as an immigrant.

E  She was jailed several times for her activism.

A  False

B  True

A  Railroads

B  Oil

C  Banking

D  Food

E  Steel

A  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

B  Lack of affordable housing

C  Disease epidemics

D  Poor quality of public services

E  Poverty

A  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

B  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

C  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

D  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

E  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

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

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

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 underscored education for their children.