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

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

E  All of these are accurate

A  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

B  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

C  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

D  Edward Drake and oil drilling

E  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

A  Expansion of mass transportation

B  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

C  All of these

D  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

E  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

A  Industrialization

B  Domestic rural to urban migration

C  Overseas immigration

D  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

E  All of these

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

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

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 supported domestic production by imposing tariffs on foreign imports.

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

A  Land

B  Value added

C  Tariff

D  Property

E  Excise

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

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  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.

A  Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America

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

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

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

E  Is represented by all of the statements above

A  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

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 was jailed several times for her activism.

E  She came to the United States as an immigrant.

A  True

B  False

A  Banking

B  Railroads

C  Food

D  Oil

E  Steel

A  Poverty

B  Disease epidemics

C  Lack of affordable housing

D  Poor quality of public services

E  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

A  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

B  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

C  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

D  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

E  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

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

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

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

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

E  They underscored education for their children.