Ch16 Terms

Question 1

Shipping entrepreneur

Answer 1

Cornelius vanderbilt

Question 2

Court forbidding an action

Answer 2

Injunction

Question 3

Steel entrepreneur

Answer 3

Andrew Carnegie

Question 4

The philosophy advocates the collective or government ownership of the means of production.

Answer 4

Socialism

Question 5

Developed the theory of natural selection.

Answer 5

Charles Darwin

Question 6

Oil-refining entrepreneur

Answer 6

John D. Rockefeller

Question 7

Midwestern free-silver party that became prominent in the 1890s

Answer 7

Populist party

Question 8

Corrupt New York politician who controlled the Customs House.

Answer 8

Roscoe Cokling

Question 9

Financial entrepreneur

Answer 9

John Pierpont Morgan

Question 10

Reforming president who was assassinated

Answer 10

James A Garfield

Question 11

The South’s tobacco entrepreneur

Answer 11

James Buchanan Duke

Question 12

First Democratic president since the war;championed commerce reform.

Answer 12

Grover cleveland

Question 13

The inventor of the telephone.

Answer 13

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 14

He was a weak president;worked for monopoly reform.

Answer 14

Benjamin Harrison

Question 15

America’s most prolific inventor.

Answer 15

Thomas Alva Edison

Question 16

He built the Great Northern Railroad without any government money or special favors.

Answer 16

James T. hill

Question 17

Labor union leader.

Answer 17

Samuel Gompers

Question 18

He was the leader of the Knights of labor.

Answer 18

Terrence powderly

Question 19

The most significant communication achievement during the Gilded Age.

Answer 19

Telephone

Question 20

Radical leader of the Socialist party.

Answer 20

Eugene V. Debs

Question 21

This tariff was made up of numerous amendments that made the tariff ineffective.

Answer 21

Mongrel Tariff

Question 22

Laws and legislation passed in the south that required forced segregation.

Answer 22

Jim Crowe Laws

Question 23

Reformed the civil service.

Answer 23

Chester A. Arthur

Question 24

“The Great Commoner” and free-silver crusader.

Answer 24

William Jennings Bryan

Question 25

Southerners hope to economically match the north built on the twin pillars of the two Ts-tobacco & textiles.

Answer 25

New South

Question 26

The theory of evolution,based on the idea of survival of the fittest.

Answer 26

Darwinism

Question 27

The earliest significant labor union.

Answer 27

Knights of Labor

Question 28

Tariff imposed on higher duties on manufactured and agricultural imports than had any previous tariff in history.

Answer 28

Mckinley Tariff

Question 29

Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens whose work reflected the literary school of realism.

Answer 29

Mark twain

Question 30

Winner of the first modern presidential election campaign(1896)

Answer 30

William Mckinley

Question 31

Financial collapse that occurred shortly after Cleveland's inauquration.

Answer 31

Panic of 93

Question 32

Why did Rockefeller choose to invest in oil refining rather than the other segments of industry?

Answer 32

Safe investment

Question 33

When did the railroad union defied the injunction by the federal ports?

Answer 33

Pullman Strike

Question 34

What was the main plank of the populist party platform?

Answer 34

Free Silver

Question 35

What are the twin pillars of the New South ?

Answer 35

Tobacco and textiles

Question 36

What was the first major trust that became the inspiration for many others?

Answer 36

Standard oil company

Question 37

What event discredited the Knights of labor?

Answer 37

Haymarket Riot

Question 38

Most prolific writer of gospel song and hymns?

Answer 38

Fanny Crosby

Question 39

Why many Americans feared the "New Immigration"?

Answer 39

Religion being threatened,they would lower the standards of living causing crime and disease,they thought they would take their jobs.

Question 40

3 causes of American industrial growth after the civil war?

Answer 40

Population was growing, so more workers, and more needs for things.Government pursued policies that encourage business empowerment, more inventive spirit, new source of power.

Question 41

What severe depression hit America during Grover Cleveland's second administration?

Answer 41

Panic of 93

Question 42

What was a major cause of American industrial growth during the Gilded Age?

Answer 42

The population was growing.

Question 43

What was the most significant goal of the Grange during the 1870's?

Answer 43

State regulation of railroad