HIST 2620 Chapter 16 | Questions with Verified Answers

HIST 2620 Chapter 16 | Questions with Verified Answers "Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution. True A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land. True According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation's corporations. False All of the following were "captains of industry" except Samuel Gompers. Although ethnic diversity is generally associated with eastern cities, in the late nineteenth century the most multicultural state in the Union was Arizona. False American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership. False At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious. False Between 1870 and 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas? 25 million By 1880, persons of Chinese descent made up over half of California's farm workers. True By 1890, the vast majority of the remaining Indian population had been removed to reservations scattered across the western states. True By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output? one-third By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay. True By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget. True Compared to other religions expanding to the West, the Mormon experience was relatively peaceful and the community accepting False Compared to the United States and the American Indians, Australia's handling of the Aboriginal people was harsher. True During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood. True During the two decades following the Civil War, which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid. False Elk v. Wilkins (1884) stated that the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to American Indians. Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the American Indian economy. True Founded in 1867, this group claimed more than 700,000 members in the mid-1870s, who called on state governments to establish fair freight rates and warehouse charges. the Grange Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth, which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society. False In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West. True In 1879, for the first time since the Civil War, the United States departed from the gold standard. False In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent. In Wabash v. Illinois, this prior ruling was essentially reversed. Munn v. Illinois In setting out to destroy the Indian economy and way of life, Civil War veterans almost decimated the buffalo population. True In the era from 1870 to 1890, the label "the Gilded Age" originally derived from a derogatory name from literature meaning covered with gold but what lies beneath is of little value. In the late 1800s, Protestants attempted reforms to "stamp out sin," yet were tolerant of businesses opening on Sundays. False In the late 1800s, farm families in the trans-Mississippi West became less dependent on loans as they were able to purchase land, machinery, and industrial products despite the prices for agricultural goods in the world market. False In the late 1800s, this geographic area experienced the most dramatic growth in capitalism. land west of the Mississippi River In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except Irish Americans. In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune? Steel Inspired in part by President Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees. True Legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director are called trusts. On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 American Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. True