Chapter 3 Quiz

A  1920

B  1900

C  1890

D  1880

E  1910

A  Created the Interstate Commerce Commission with significant power and funding to investigate abusive business 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  Aimed at regulating railroads and their monopolistic practices

E  All of these are accurate

A  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

B  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

C  Edward Drake and oil drilling

D  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

E  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

A  All of these

B  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

C  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

D  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

E  Expansion of mass transportation

A  All of these

B  Domestic rural to urban migration

C  Overseas immigration

D  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

E  Industrialization

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

B  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.

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

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

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

A  Property

B  Value added

C  Land

D  Excise

E  Tariff

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

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

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

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

D  Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America

E  Is represented by all of the statements above

A  She came to the United States as an immigrant.

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

C  She was an ardent support of labor rights.

D  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

E  She was jailed several times for her activism.

A  False

B  True

A  Banking

B  Food

C  Oil

D  Railroads

E  Steel

A  Disease epidemics

B  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

C  Poverty

D  Poor quality of public services

E  Lack of affordable housing

A  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

B  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

C  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

D  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

E  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

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

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

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