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36. The Bargain of 1877:
What is b. led to the appointment of a southerner as postmaster general.
100
1. All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
What is a. availability of capital for investment.
100
9. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:
What is d. built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
100
47. The Haymarket Affair:
What is e. was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally.
100
42. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:
What is e. was evidence of worker solidarity and the close ties between industry and the Republican Party.
200
35. The election of 1876:
What is c. marked the final stage of Reconstruction, which ended in 1880
200
2. By 1890, the majority of Americans:
What is e. worked for wages.
200
11. For workers, the second industrial revolution meant all of the following EXCEPT:
What is e. a decrease in child labor.
200
46. Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is FALSE?
What is b. The Knights of Labor was directly responsible for the violence that took place at Haymarket.
200
41. One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important is that:
What is b. it underscored the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time.
300
33. In 1875, when Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames asked President Grant for help because white rifle clubs had openly assaulted and murdered Republicans, Grant:
What is e. told Ames that the northern public was “tired out” with southern problems.
300
3. The second industrial revolution was marked by:
What is d. the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.
300
12. The American working class:
What is d. was quickly making gains and moving into the middle class
300
45. The Social Gospel:
What is d. called for an equalization of wealth and power.
300
40. During the second industrial revolution, the courts:
What is d. tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor.
400
31. The Liberal Republican movement in 1872:
What is d. initially had little to do with Reconstruction but encouraged opposition to Grant’s policies in the South.
400
7. In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:
What is e. ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace.
400
13. In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis:
What is c. focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.
400
44. The over 150 utopian and cataclysmic novels published during the last quarter of the nineteenth century:
What is b. were inspired by the growing fear of class warfare.
400
39. What did William G. Sumner believe social classes owed each other?
What is c. nothing at all
500
31. The Liberal Republican movement in 1872:
What is d. initially had little to do with Reconstruction but encouraged opposition to Grant’s policies in the South.
500
8. One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was:
What is b. frequent and prolonged economic depressions.
500
14. The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was:
What is a. dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.
500
43. The Knights of Labor:
What is a. was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.
500
36. Which statement about the theory of Social Darwinism is FALSE?
What is e. The theory argued that the “deserving poor” only included children.
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