Railroads, Monopolies, and Social Change in the Gilded Age

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Question 1 Construction of the Union Pacific railroad pushed west from where? Omaha, Nebraska

Question 2 In the Credit Mobilier Scandal, Union Pacific investors got rich by doing what? Paying inflated bills from a construction company that they controlled

Question 3 It made sense for big corporations to continue operating during poor economic times because why? Their operating costs were small, compared to their fixed costs

Question 4 To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the American Railway Association did what? Divided the country into standardized time zones

Question 5 The two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were Union Pacific & Central Pacific

Question 6 What is it called when a single company achieves control of an entire market? Monopoly

Question 7 Department stores changed the idea of shopping how? Bringing together a huge array of different products

Question 8 What is a technique used for breaking a union in which the company refused to allow workers onto their property? Lockout

Question 9 Subway systems were first developed to do what? Relieve congestion on city streets

Question 10 By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants in the U.S. were what? Eastern & southern Europeans

Question 11 In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created what? Interstate Commerce Commission

Question 12 How many stories was the world’s first skyscraper? 10

Question 13 Nativist wanted to do what? Limit or cut immigration

Question 15 In the 1876 and 1888, the presidential candidates with the most popular votes lost the election where? Electoral College

Question 16 In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court established what? “Separate but equal” doctrine

Question 17 Mark Twain & Charles Warner called their period the Gilded Age why? Sound alarm that all was not well in society

Question 18 To achieve economies of scale, corporations did what? Built larger manufacturing facilities

Question 19 “Survival of the fittest” was a term associated with what? Social Darwinism

Question 20 Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants would do what? Work for low wages

Question 21 What was the philosophy called that Americans with a great deal of money should use it for social progress? Gospel of Wealth

Question 22 William M. Tweed was what? Party boss of a political machine

Question 23 In the late 1800s, what was the most common form of mass transit in cities? horsecar

Question 24 Why was the Workingman’s Party of CA formed? Fight Chinese immigration

Question 25 New technology helped farmers produce more crops, which tended to do what with the price of crops? Lower them

Question 26 The Populist posed a challenge for Democrats in the South how? Appealed to poor whites

Question 27 Passed in several western states, Granger laws limited what? Rates that railroads could charge

Question 28 The Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning what? Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 29 The Pendleton Act required government jobs to be distributed according to what? Competitive written examinations

Question 30 The Morrill Land Grant led to the spread of what? Colleges

Question 31 What was the first nationwide labor protest? Great Railroad Strike

Question 32 Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for what? Votes

Question 33 Individualism was the belief that A person can rise as far as their talents will take them

Question 34 As the nation was industrializing, Congress used tariffs because Help American industries compete with Europe

Question 35 The confrontation at Wounded Knee began because the government wanted the Lakota to stop what? Performing the Ghost Dance

Question 36 The first salaried baseball team played in what city? Cincinnati

Question 37 Supporters of the subtreasury plan believed that it would do what? Force crop prices upward

Question 38 What philosophy stated that people failed in life because of circumstances beyond their control? Naturalism

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Railroads, Monopolies, and Social Change in the Gilded Age