Chapter 3 Quiz

A  1880

B  1900

C  1920

D  1910

E  1890

A  All of these are accurate

B  Created the Interstate Commerce Commission with significant power and funding to investigate abusive 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  Exemplifies the strong role the federal government took in regulating business practices

A  Edward Drake and oil drilling

B  Christopher Stokes and the typewriter

C  Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb

D  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone

E  Henry Bessemer and pasteurization

A  Expansion of mass transportation

B  Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings

C  All of these

D  Segmentation of neighborhoods by class

E  New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people

A  Overseas immigration

B  All of these

C  Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families

D  Industrialization

E  Domestic rural to urban migration

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  Congress supported domestic production by imposing tariffs on foreign imports.

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  It provided financial support for railroad companies through land grants.

A  Property

B  Land

C  Value added

D  Tariff

E  Excise

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

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

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

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  Employed mostly young women who had recently immigrated to the US

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

C  Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America

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

C  She was an ardent support of labor rights.

D  She came to the United States as an immigrant.

E  She strongly supported women’s rights and suffrage.

A  False

B  True

A  Railroads

B  Banking

C  Oil

D  Food

E  Steel

A  Poverty

B  Poor quality of public services

C  Lack of opportunities for entertainment

D  Disease epidemics

E  Lack of affordable housing

A  Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)

B  John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry

C  Jay Gould and the railroad industry

D  Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel

E  John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil

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

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

C  They underscored education for their children.

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

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