Gilded Age Fact Test

Question 1

Where did the name gilded age come from

Answer 1

book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Question 2

by 1880, economy was growing at what percentage

Answer 2

3.8

Question 3

by 1893, how many miles of rail were there

Answer 3

200,000

Question 4

when was the northern pacific railroad completed

Answer 4

1883

Question 5

what was the annual steel production in 1900

Answer 5

60 million tons

Question 6

what was the bessemer process

Answer 6

allowed mass production of good quality steel - adopted by carnegie

Question 7

when and where did carnegie first establish his steel works

Answer 7

Pennsylvania mid-1870s

Question 8

when did carnegie consolidate his steel companies into Carnegie Steel Company

Answer 8

1892

Question 9

when did rockerfeller found standard oil

Answer 9

1870

Question 10

when was the ‘cleveland massacre’

Answer 10

1872

Question 11

when was standard oil trust established

Answer 11

1882

Question 12

describe the 1877 national railroad strike

Answer 12

owners of baltimore and ohio railroad announced a pay cut in 1877 and so workers went on strike - spread to pittsburg

Question 13

what were the damages of the 1877 railroad strike

Answer 13

500 train cars burned
104 locomotives burned
39 buildings burned
25 killed
$10 million property destroyed

Question 14

how many members did the knights of labor have

Answer 14

100,000 in 1885
eventually 750,000

Question 15

describe a knights of labor success

Answer 15

at Wabash railroad, they tried to break up a union so the knights walked out and they forced a deal

Question 16

describe the haymarket bomb outrage

Answer 16

strikes broke out in chicago in may 1886, and there were battles between strikers and police

Question 17

how many were killed by the bomb at haymarket

Answer 17

6 dead
60 injured

Question 18

describe the AFL

Answer 18

samuel gompers was the leader who set it up in 1885, learnt from mistakes of KoL

Question 19

how many members did the AFL have by 1892

Answer 19

250,000

Question 20

how much did steel production increase from 1870 to 1900

Answer 20

1m to 12m tonnes

Question 21

how much did the population of new york increase from 1870-1910

Answer 21

405%

Question 22

how much did the african american population increase from 1870 to 1900

Answer 22

4.4m to 7.9m

Question 23

what percentage of black farmers owned their land by 1910

Answer 23

25%

Question 24

how much did the black population increase in the north and west

Answer 24

460k to 910k

Question 25

how many states introduced formal segregation 1887-91

Answer 25

8

Question 26

how many states had civil rights statutes by 1895

Answer 26

17

Question 27

how many african americans were lynched between 1882 and 1890

Answer 27

2.5k

Question 28

when did ida b wells attack the lynchings

Answer 28

1892 - she exposed the lawlessness of it and it resulted in the news office being destroyed by a mob

Question 29

what was the first education bill for african americans

Answer 29

it would have been one delivered by senator henry w blair which would have given millions of dollars to white and black schools, but it was rejected by congress in 1882