History Vocab. Ch. 16-19

The Social Gospel

Which statement about the theory of Social Darwinism is FALSE?

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:

Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is FALSE?

William M. Tweed was a(n):

In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:

In 1883, ____________ divided the nation into the four time zones still used today.

During the second industrial revolution, the courts:

Which of the following statements best summarizes the reasons for the tripling of railroad track miles in the United States between 1860 and 1890?

The Knights of Labor:

One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was:

The second industrial revolution was marked by:

The Haymarket Affair:

By 1890, the majority of Americans:

The theory of Social Darwinism argued that:

Which statement about labor and the law is FALSE?

The American working class:

In "How the Other Half Lives", Jacob Riis:

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

The ________________ made possible the second industrial revolution in America.

One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important is that:

The Supreme Court in Lochner v. New York:

All of the following factors contributed to explosive economic growth during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

Thomas Edison:

For workers, the second industrial revolution meant all of the following EXCEPT:

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court:

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s as the white North and South moved toward reconciliation?

During the "Age of Empire," American racial attitudes:

Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South is FALSE?

In his Atlanta speech of 1895, Booker T. Washington:

In the South, the Redeemers:

The Philippine War:

Twenty years after the end of Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South:

After the 1890s, American expansionism:

Journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's "New York Journal," which sensationalized events to sell papers, were called:

The "white man's burden":

Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor:

Americans have referred to the 1890s as the women's era because:

The Spanish-American War:

What explains the appeal of the Lost Cause mythology for Southern whites in the late nineteenth century?

In 1900, most of the nearly 5 million women who worked for wages worked in:

By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:

Plessy v. Ferguson:

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

All of the following statements about Urban Progressives are true EXCEPT:

Jane Addams:

Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

During the Progressive era:

All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:

Margaret Sanger was a:

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

President Theodore Roosevelt:

Maternalist reform:

Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?

A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:

What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called:

All of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT:

In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

During the Progressive era;

The new concepts of "living wage" and the "American standard of living":

The term "Fordism":

Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?

During the Progressive era

The Sixteenth Amendment:

A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a:

The work "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:

Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:

The Industrial Workers of the World:

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers?

The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:

All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century are true EXCEPT:

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 is FALSE?