Chapter 3 Quiz

A  1910

B  1900

C  1890

D  1880

E  1920

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

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

C  Aimed at regulating railroads and their monopolistic practices

D  All of these are accurate

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

A  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

B  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

C  Edward Drake and oil drilling

D  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

E  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

A  All of these

B  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

C  Expansion of mass transportation

D  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

E  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

A  Overseas immigration

B  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

C  All of these

D  Domestic rural to urban migration

E  Industrialization

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

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  It provided financial support for railroad companies through land grants.

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

A  Land

B  Tariff

C  Excise

D  Value added

E  Property

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

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

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  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  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 came to the United States as an immigrant.

D  She was jailed several times for her activism.

E  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

A  True

B  False

A  Banking

B  Railroads

C  Steel

D  Oil

E  Food

A  Disease epidemics

B  Poor quality of public services

C  Lack of affordable housing

D  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

E  Poverty

A  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

B  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

C  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

D  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

E  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

A  They underscored education for their children.

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

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

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.