APUSH 06 Gilded Age

Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth?

• Privately held wealth should be handed over to the government to be redistributed 
• Wealthy individuals should use their wealth for social benefit
• Parents have an obligation to pass on their wealth to their children
• Accumulating large amounts of wealth violates Christian principals

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for its rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

The Farmer's Alliance, the Grange, and the ______________ stood for additional government regulation of trade, currency,  and the protection of other farmers' interests.

• Progressives
• Free Soil Party
• Knights of Labor
• Populists

William Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age,  believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed.  This philosophy was called...

• Evolution
• Monetary Policy
• Social Darwinism
• Welfare Capitalism

During the age of industrialization, the South

• was not targeted by northern industrialists who sought to introduce factories into the region
• received preferential treatment from the railroads
• turned away from agriculture
• remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural

One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits was 

• Elimination of as much competition as possible
• Supporting a centrally planned economy
• Funding research on new technologies
• Elimination of the tactic of vertical integration

Which of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?

• Chinese & Irish
• Irish & Japanese
• Chinese & Japanese
• Chinese & Italians 

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies and processes of raw materials led to

• automation of industry
• horizontal integration
• vertical integration
• development of the "putting-out system"

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

• relied on the use of power-driven machines
• provided less supervision of workers
• relied on train guilds
• promoted better relations between workers and employees

Social Darwinism

• The idea that people and businesses compete for survival 
• Journalist who uncovered and proved the truth about the evil of big buisness and politics in America.
• NAACP
• The Jungle