Chapter 3 Quiz

A  1880

B  1900

C  1920

D  1890

E  1910

A  Aimed at regulating railroads and their monopolistic practices

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

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

D  All of these are accurate

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

A  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

B  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

C  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

D  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

E  Edward Drake and oil drilling

A  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

B  All of these

C  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

D  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

E  Expansion of mass transportation

A  Industrialization

B  Domestic rural to urban migration

C  All of these

D  Overseas immigration

E  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

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

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

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

D  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.

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

A  Value added

B  Land

C  Tariff

D  Property

E  Excise

A  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.

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

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

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

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  Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America

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

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

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

E  Is represented by all of the statements above

A  She was jailed several times for her activism.

B  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

C  She came to the United States as an immigrant.

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

E  She was an ardent support of labor rights.

A  True

B  False

A  Steel

B  Banking

C  Railroads

D  Food

E  Oil

A  Lack of affordable housing

B  Disease epidemics

C  Poverty

D  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

E  Poor quality of public services

A  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

B  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

C  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

D  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

E  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

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

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

C  They underscored education for their children.

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

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