Ch. 16 America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 Pt. 2 Flashcards
(24 cards)
True or False: The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.
False
True or False: Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.
True
True or False: By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys went on strike for higher pay.
True
The ________ _______ resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.
Haymarket Affair
What was the result of the Haymarket Affair?
the hanging of four convicted anarchists.
True or False: American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.
False
On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children, near ________ _____ _____ in South Dakota.
Wounded Knee Creek
On _________ ___, _____, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
December 29, 1890
On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between ____ and ____ Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
150
200
By the early 1890s, a pension system for _____ _______ and their widows and children consumed more than ___ percent of the federal budget.
Union soldiers
40
True or False: General George Armstrong Custer’s troops were victorious at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
False
The extermination of the North American ______ (______) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.
bison
buffalo
True or False: The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.
False
True or False: Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.
True
“_______ _________” is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.
Vertical integration
True or False: Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive, taxation.
False
True or False: With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
False
The ________ ________ at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
Electricity Building
The Electricity Building at the ________ ______’s Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
Chicago World’
The Electricity Building at the Chicago World’s _____ ___ _____ astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
Fair of 1893
In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new “_____ ______” in the West.
peace policy
In 1869, President _______ ___ ______ announced a new “peace policy” in the West.
Ulysses S. Grant
In _____, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new “peace policy” in the _____.
1869
West
When did the most famous Indian victory in American history take place?
In June 1876, when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.
