The Gilded Age

Which of the following is a true statement about political machines during the Gilded Age?

• Political participation was damaged from the spoils system and the fierce partisanship of the era.
• The Tammany Hall political machine lost power when Boss Tweed was arrested and fled to Spain.
• The Pendleton Civil Service Act helped political machines gain power in many cities by providing more government jobs.
• Political machines won the loyalty of large immigrant groups by promising solutions to problems like poor sanitation or transportation.

“Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people.” (1892)
Which group showed the greatest support for this idea?

• western farmers
• union leaders
• factory owners
• railroad companies

The Populists believed that most of the United States economic problems would be solved by establishing

• currency reform
• postal savings banks
• a national property tax
• a renewed policy of open immigration

The purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided free federal land, was to

• encourage settlement of the West
• set up reservations for Native American Indians
• establish land-grant agricultural colleges
• assist in the construction of transcontinental railroads

The aim of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

• restore previously taken land to Native American Indian tribes
• maintain traditional Native American Indian cultures
• assimilate Native American Indians into American culture
• end all governmental contact with Native American Indians

In the period from 1860 to 1900, the Federal Government encouraged the settlement of the West by

• passing an increased number of liberal immigration laws
• selling the most fertile public land to Native American Indians
• providing free transportation to settlers moving to the frontier
• granting tracts of land to railroad companies to encourage construction

"[Buffalo hunters] have done more in the last two years, and will do more in the next year, to settle the . . . Indian question than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years. . . . For the sake of peace let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo are destroyed.” —General Philip Sheridan

What was the result of the process described in this quotation?

• Native American Indians were granted farmland under the Homestead Act.
• The disappearance of their economic base helped drive Native American Indians onto reservations.
• Many Native American Indians moved to Eastern cities to work in factories.
• Most Native American Indians Canada to find new ways to earn a living.

-Free and unlimited coinage of silver
-Government ownership of railroads
-Graduated income tax

Which of these political parties first proposed these reforms in its platform?

• Republican Party in 1876
• Populist Party in 1892
• Bull-Moose Party 1912
• Democratic Party in 1932

In the late 1800s, the goal of the Federal Government’s policy toward Native American Indians was to

• destroy tribal bonds and thus weaken their traditional cultural values through assimilation
• grant them full citizenship and due process
• give their tribal groups authority over their own affairs
• increase the land holdings of western tribes

During the period from 1865 to 1900, disputes between labor and management were often marked by

• the use of violence by both sides
• cooperative efforts to resolve differences
• government support of striking workers
• arbitration by the Federal Government