APUSH 6.10 & 6.11

Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth endorsed which of the following views?

• Major industries should be nationalized to ensure equitable distribution of wealth.

• Trusts and combinations were desirable because they guaranteed job stability to immigrant workers.

• All workers could attain wealth by following a diligent work ethic.

• Wealthy individuals have a duty to return their fortunes to society.

Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth was based on the belief that wealthy industrialists should use their wealth to

• acquire additional landholdings in the West

• create new businesses

• finance philanthropic endeavors

• pay workers better wages and benefits

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 betterment.

• Using wealth to help others is wrong, since it undermines their self-reliance.

• Accumulating large amounts of wealth violates Christian principles.

“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren.’’

These sentiments are most characteristic of

• transcendentalism

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Gospel

• Social Darwinism

“Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it. Money printed your Bible, money builds your churches. . . . The man who gets the largest salary can do the most good with the power that is furnished to him. Of course he can if his spirit be right to use it for what it is given to him. I say, then, you ought to have money.”

The quotation above is an example of

• transcendentalism

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Gospel

• Social Darwinsim

Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women’s rights?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Alice Paul

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• Dorothea Dix

“We have, however, in society, an agency which is expressly intended to perform this very service of social integration. . . . It is the Christian Church. The precise business of the Christian Church is to fill the world with the spirit of unity, of brotherhood; . . . to promote unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace. . . .”

The quotation above is an example of

• transcendentalism

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Gospel

• Social Darwinism

The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to

• encourage support for Charles Darwin’s theory of biological evolution

• draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor

• promote the spread of Protestantism in United States territorial possessions

• stimulate public interest in the principles of Anglo-Saxon superiority

Which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true?

• The six states of New England were the first to have complete women suffrage.

• No state granted woman suffrage before 1900.

• The only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi.

• California and Oregon were the first states to have complete women suffrage.