Question 1

The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Lochner v.New York voided a state law establishing ten hours per day,or sixty per week,as the maximum hours of work for bakers,claiming that it infringed on individual freedom.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Which of the following does NOT describe the impact of corporations on the American West?

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A)   Scientific mining techniques introduced by corporate engineers displaced independent prospectors.
B)   Lumber companies decimated coastal forests, inspiring the twentieth-century conservation movement.
C)   Urban populations in California declined as people moved to the centers of agricultural production.
D)   Communal landholdings in New Mexico were taken over by commercial farmers and ranchers.
E)   The necessary investments were beyond the means of the average farmer.

Question 4

The Social Gospel movement focused on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Dawes Act

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Question 6

The West experienced tremendous growth after the Civil War; nowhere was this more apparent than in California.Write an essay on the consequences of population growth on the western landscape,looking at farming,livelihoods,the impact of the railroad,the growth of Indian reservations,and the subjugation of Indian peoples.

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Question 7

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Andrew Carnegie

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A)  Social Gospel movement
B)  steel industrial giant
C)  Progress and Poverty
D)  Knights of Labor
E)  electric motorF) How the Other Half LivesG) winner at the Little BighornH) utopian novelistI) Social DarwinistJ) oil industrial giantK) Nez PercéL) inventor

Question 8

What was the aim of Carlisle,a boarding school for Indians?

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A)   To prepare them for reservation life.
B)   To train them in the professional skills necessary to return to the reservations as doctors and teachers.
C)   To convert them to Christianity so that they would become missionaries on the reservations.
D)   To civilize the Indians, making them "American," as whites defined the term.
E)   To prepare them to enlist in the U.S. military.

Question 9

An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by "conspicuous consumption" is:

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A)   Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball.
B)   an immigrant's purchase of bread.
C)   the free services handed out by social reformers.
D)   John D. Rockefeller's purchase of a competing company.
E)   the social welfare services of European nations like Germany.

Question 10

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Terence Powderly

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A)  Social Gospel movement
B)  steel industrial giant
C)  Progress and Poverty
D)  Knights of Labor
E)  electric motorF) How the Other Half LivesG) winner at the Little BighornH) utopian novelistI) Social DarwinistJ) oil industrial giantK) Nez PercéL) inventor

Question 11

Thomas Edison:

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A)   invented the typewriter.
B)   was a governor of New Jersey.
C)   pioneered the use of the telephone.
D)   was a railroad owner.
E)   invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

Question 12

The nineteenth-century labor movement argued that:

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A)   concentrated capital was not the enemy but that corrupt politicians were.
B)   extremes of wealth and poverty threatened democracy.
C)   strikes and walkouts were exclusively a male preserve.
D)   meaningful freedom could exist in conditions of economic inequality, but only if the government did not oppress workers.
E)   capital should be concentrated among the laborers.

Question 13

William Cody:

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A)   invented a form of public entertainment called vaudeville.
B)   created a "Wild West" show that toured the United States and Europe.
C)   was defeated at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
D)   never traveled west of the Mississippi River.
E)   was a colonel in the U.S. army.

Question 14

Republican economic policies strongly favored the interests of northern industrialists.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The Social Gospel:

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A)   was another term for Social Darwinism.
B)   was financed by corporate donations.
C)   was part of the Catholic Church.
D)   called for an equalization of wealth and power.
E)   did not support aid to the poor.

Question 16

Voter participation during the Gilded Age was never over 60 percent.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

American workers received higher pay than their European counterparts,but their working conditions were more dangerous.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The term "Gilded Age" describes all of the following EXCEPT:

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A)   a period of corruption and corporate domination of politics.
B)   the years between 1870 and 1890.
C)   the title of an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley.
D)   an era where the scramble for wealth benefited all Americans equally.
E)   the remarkable economic expansion of the time period.

Question 19

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

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A)   availability of capital for investment.
B)   a growing supply of labor.
C)   abundant natural resources.
D)   low tariffs.
E)   federal land grants to railroads.

Question 20

Chief Joseph:

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A)   advocated greater federal control of Indians.
B)   starred in a Wild West show.
C)   was at the Little Bighorn.
D)   supported the reservation system.
E)   wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

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