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Which statement best explains how the Electoral college controversy during the Hayes-Tilden presidential election of 1876 was resolved?
Hayes promise to end Reconstruction if he received the electoral support of the southern states.
Tilden obtained the electoral support of the northern states after agreeing to end segregation.
Hayes obtained the electoral support of the northern states after promoting immigration reform.
Tilden opposed Jim Crow laws, which gained him the electoral support of the southern states.
What issue was Thomas Nast raising in the cartoon?
Boss Tweed's inherited wealth
Boss Tweed's lack of intelligence
the corrupt influence of money in politics in New York City
the cost of political campaigns in New York City
What was the purpose of publishing images such as this one?
to document the living conditions of immigrants
to discourage immigration to industrial centers
to encourage the living conditions of immigrants
to bring awareness of the need for public transportation
What was one reason for the expansion of machine politics in the late nineteenth century ?
The rapid influx of immigrant made it difficult for local governments to provide basic services.
Federal restrictions prevented voters from influencing government decisions at the local level.
The economy was too tightly regulated to allow urban growth.
Settlement houses failed to help immigrants adjust to life in the city.
T. A. Edison Electric-Lamp Patent, 1880
How did the invention shown in this patent illustration affect industry?
Machines needed to be repaired less frequently.
Products could be manufactured on an assembly line.
Businesses needed to hire skilled workers.
Factories could extend working hours.
The following cartoon "Bosses of the Senate" appeared in the magazine Puck in 1889.
What does this cartoon imply about U.S. economic policy prior to 1890?
The federal government passed laws that favored natural-resource conservation over industrial production.
The federal government passed laws that increased market competition and decreased industrial power.
The federal government passed laws that increased corporate taxes and decreased public spending.
The federal government passed laws that favored large corporations over small businesses.
We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political , civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America. The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone but for all true Americans.
-W. E. B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement Address to the Country ,1906
How did the ideas presented in this address affect the early Civil Rights movement in the United States?
By encouraging African Americans to achieve equality through vocational education
By directly supporting Marcus Garvey's Black Star Steamship Line
By encouraging African Americans to accept Jim Crow laws
By forming the basis for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the
Increase need to protect worker interests
decreased power of political machines
increased demand for skilled workesr
decreased profitability of the agricultural sector
Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?
The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.
Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power
in the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry.
Small, family-owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations.
During the late 1800's, which action did Congress take to regulate the business practices of companies such as Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel?
Proposal of the 16th Amendment
passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act
adoption of the Gentlemen's Agreement
establishment of the Federal Reserve System
All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that ... the country was in real danger from another kind of slavery... that would result from the aggregations of capital in the hands of a few individuals and [businesses] controlling, for their own profit and advantage exclusively, the entire business of the country, including the production and sale of the necessaries of life.
--Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1911
In this excerpt, justice Harlan is warning against--
a civil service based on patronage rather than merit
allowing powerful monopolies to dominate interstate commerce
a lack of federal funding for essential transportation systems
allowing labor unions to interfere with production goals
The list below summarize President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program.
. consumer protection
. control of corporations
. conservation of natural resources
Based on this summary, which belief was the foundation of this program
At times, the government needs to fund private industry to stimulate the creation of jobs.
At times, the government needs to regulate private industry to protect the common good.
At times, the government needs to regulate public works projects to protects the property of citizens.
At times, the federal government needs to fund public works projects to expand the national infrastructure.
The excerpt below is from a book written by Ida Tarbell in 1904.
... Finally in June, 1870, five years after he became an active partner in the refining business, Mr. Rockefeller combined all his companies into one--the Standard Oil Company. The capital of the new concern was $1,000,000....
The strides the firm of Rockeffeller and Andrews made after the former went into it were attributed for three or four years mainly to his extraordinary capacity for bargaining and borrowing. Then its chief competitors began to suspect something. John Rockefeller might get his oil cheaper now and then, they said, but he could not do it often. He might make close contracts for which the had neither the patience nor the stomach. He might have an unusual mechanical and practical genius in his partner. But these things could not explain all... Where was his advantage? There was but one place where it could be and that was in transportation. He must be getting better rates from the railroads than they were. In 1868 or 1869 a member of rival firm long in the business, which had been prosperous from the start....went to the Atlantic and Great Western road , then under the Erie management, and complained. "You giving others better rates than your us," said Mr Alexander, the representative of the firm. " We cannot compete if you do that..."
Another Cleveland man, W.H. Doane, engage in shipping crude oil, began to suspect about the same time as Mr. Alexander that the Standard was receiving rebates. Now Mr.Doane had always been oppose to the "drawback business," but it was impossible for him to supply his customers with crude oil at as low a rate as the Standard paid if it received a rebate and he did not...
(Source: Public Domain ? Text excerpt from The History of the Standard Oil Company , Published in 1904)
Which selection from the excerpt best supports the argument of progressives regarding the relationship between government and business?
The strides the firm of Rockefeller and Andrews made after the former went into it were attributed for three or four years mainly to his extraordinary capacity for bargaining and borrowing.
He might have an unusual mechanical and practical genius in his partner.
He might make close contracts for which they had neither the patience nor the stomach.
" you are giving others better rates than you are us," said Mr. Alexander, the representative of the firm. "We cannot compete if you do that."
In the early twentieth century, what was the main reason for high rates of industrial accidents?
inefficient methods of factory production
ineffective efforts at union organization
inadequate safety measures in factories
insufficient training for unskilled laborers
All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that ... the country was in real danger from another kind of slavery... that would result from the aggregations of capital in the hands of a few individuals and [businesses] controlling, for their own profit and advantage exclusively, the entire business of the country, including the production and sale of the necessaries of life.
--Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1911
In this excerpt, justice Harlan is warning against--
a civil service based on patronage rather than merit
allowing powerful monopolies to dominate interstate commerce
a lack of federal funding for essential transportation systems
allowing labor unions to interfere with production goals
Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?
The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.
Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power
in the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry.
Small, family-owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations.
Concerns of Populist Demands in the Late 1800s
Regulation of railroad shipping charges
A graduated income tax
Free and unlimited coinage of silver
These demands most reflected the concerns of?
small farmers in need of affordable credit
robber barons pursuing higher profits
prominent bankers who controlled the money supply
immigrant workers seeking economic justice
These two statements below describes a development in the United States after the Civil War.
Railroads often charged higher rates to some farmers and businesses.
Farmers started the Granger Movement in 1867 to promote agricultural economic prosperity.
Which economic action resulted from these events?
Several states passed laws regulating railroad pricing.
Grangers protested railroad practices by going on strike.
Several states limited the expansion of new railroad lines.
Grangers offered better prices by building their own railroads
The photograph below was taken in 1913
source: Public Domain/Library of Congress
Base on this photograph and your content knowledge, which conclusion can be made about the lives of these children?
Their work was repetitive and impaired their learning ability
Their work was dangerous and harmed their physical health.
Their work was difficult but paid them well enough to attend school.
Their work was time-consuming but prepared them for a better occupation.
protectors of our industry, 1883
which message is being conveyed by the cartoon?
Industrialist were experiencing more difficulty than the laborers.
The government imposed improved labor standards.
The labor force should have found other employement
The wealthy were dependent on the labor of the working class.
Workers stringing Beans in a Maryland Factory, 1909
Source : Library of congress, Prints and Photographs Division
What were photographs such as this one taken by Lewis Hine primarily intend to accomplish?
Encourage leaders to make segregation in schools illegal
Document labor conditions during an economic crisis
Depict the evils of capitalism in communist propaganda
Focus attention on the need for child labor reforms
The excerpt below is from a speech delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908
"We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the goal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation"
How did criticism like this affect the United States during the turn of the 20th Century?
It provided support for the National Park Service that protected public lands
It provided support for laws that restricted the hunting of endangered animals.
it led to the regulation of energy usage by limiting the importation of foreign fuel.
It led to the regulation of large corporations by the Environmental Protection Agency.
These changes shown in the photograph most likely -
helped improve workplace safety
increased the supply of natural resources
altered the makeup of the natural ecosystem
helped decrease energy consumption
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Social Darwinism
Populist
survival of the wealthiest
Party for workers and farmers
NAACP
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Gospel of Wealth
Philanthropy
Jane Addams
Survival of the wealthiest
Populist
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Booker T. Washington
Populist
NAACP
Tuskegee Institute
Philanthropy
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Populist
Railroad
NAACP
Philanthropy
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Granger Movement
Farmers Movement
Jane Addams
Populist
NAACP
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Populism
Populist
Party for workers and farmers
Farmer movement
Survival of the Wealthiest
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Labor Union
Company control the market
First federal law against monopolies
Workers organization
Union tactic
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Strike
Workers organization
Union tactic
labor leader led Pullman strike
first federal law against monopolies
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Eugene Debs
Labor leader led Pullman strike
Leader of the American Federation of Labor
Own many businesses
Union tactic
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Samuel Gompers
Labor leader led Pullman strike
Own many businesses
Leader of the America federation of Labor
Antimonopoly law that supported union
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Coal Creek Labor Saga
Company controls the market
Tennessee labor conflict
Union tactic
workers organization
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Trust
Tennessee labor conflict
workers organization
own many businesses
company controls the market
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Monopoly
Company controls the market
Antimonopoly law that supported union
Union Tactic
Own many businesses
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Sherman Antitrust
Union tactic
Antimonopoly law that supported unions
First federal law against monopolies
company controls the market
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Clayton Antitrust
Tennessee labor conflict
First federal law against monopolies
Antimonopoly law that supported unions
Workers organization
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Alexander Graham Bell
Farm and countryside
Telephone
city
Investor
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Henry Bessemer
Beauty product
Standard oil
Cheap steel production
Telephone
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Andrew Carnegie
Menlo Park
city
Alternating Current
Steel Empire
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Thomas Edison
Menlo Park
Standard oil
Beauty Product
Steel Empire
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JP Morgan
Investor
Standard oil
Railroad
City
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John D. Rockefeller
Beauty Product
Alternative current
Standard oil
City
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Nikola Tesla
Telephone
investor
Beauty product
Alternating Current
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroads
Menlo Park
Standard oil
Steel Empire
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Madam CJ Walker
City
Cheap steel producion
Beauty Products
Investor
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Urban
City
Steel Empire
Telephone
Standard oil
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Rural
City
Farm and countryside
Standard oil
Cheap Steel Production
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Boss Tweed
Political Cartoon
Political Machine
Regulation
Hull House
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Thomas Nast
Pendleton Act
Political Cartoon
Scandal
Nativism
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Credit Mobilier
Scandal
Pendleton Act
Political Machine
Regulation
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Assassination President Garfield
Scandal
Southern and Eastern Europe
Pendleton Act
Hull House
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Interstate Commerce Act
Regulation
Nativism
Scandal
Hull House
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Ellis Island
Natism
Hull House
New Immigrants
Political Machine
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Jane Addams
Hull House
Pendleton Act
Political Machine
Regulation
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Political Machine
Political Cartoon
Nativism
Regulation
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Robert Follette
Promise to treat the American people fairly
Wrote "The Jungle"
Wisconsin Idea
Food Labels
This cover from a nineteenth - century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from-
a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one
a slave-owning society to one without slavery
a foreign policy of isolationism to one of intervetionism
a direct democracy to a representative one
Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800's?
Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction.
Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to private property through homesteading.
Speculators bought large parcels of land and then built factory towns to attract new immigrants.
Native Americans sold most of their tribal lands directly to railroad companies.
Nineteenth-century nativist organizations advocated-
limiting federal military power through the organization of local militias
conserving natural resources through the creation of national park
globalizing the economy through participation in free-trade agreements
promoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration
