HIUS 222 content quiz 2 solutions complete answers

HIUS 222 content quiz 2 solutions complete answers 

 

 

 
 
 
Who founded Standard Oil?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Where did most immigrants to the United States by 1900 originate?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
What was one of Moody’s most significant legacies?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
According to your textbook, what best describes automobile production in the United States in 1917?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Which labor event did Eugene V. Debs play a leading role in?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
What did American workers experience in the late nineteenth century due to the growth of industrial capitalism?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Why did organized labor fail to make great gains in the late nineteenth century?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
What competition did Princeton and Rutgers play as the first intercollegiate game in America in 1869?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
By the end of the nineteenth century, compulsory school attendance laws existed in thirty-one states and territories.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
What statement about education in the late nineteenth century is true?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Question 1

The rapid emergence of trusts in the late nineteenth century alarmed many Americans.

Question 2

Laissezfaire was a philosophy typically held by

Question 3

What was the significance of the adoption of a standard gauge?

Question 4

How did children’s work in industry differ from their earlier contributions to the family economy?

Question 5

The “Great Uprising” of 1877 was a general strike against the nation’s

Question 6

Which of the following best characterizes the stories of Horatio Alger?

Question 7

George Eastman created a successful business based on his invention of the

Question 8

Frank W. Woolworth’s stores were known as

Question 9

The Molly Maguires was a clandestine organization of coal miners that carried out acts of intimidation, vandalism, and violence.

Question 10

Institutions established in the 1880s to provide social and educational services for the poor were called

Question 11

Nativists created the White City primarily as a way of preserving white culture.

Question 12

The number of immigrants arriving in the United States from the United Kingdom and Ireland increased throughout the Gilded Age.

Question 13

Which of the following did NOT encourage African Americans to migrate to northern cities?

Selected Answer: a lack of racial prejudice in the North

Question 14

Which of the following BEST characterizes the hopes of the designers of the White City?

Question 15

With the 1896 presidential election, the Republicans became the party representing

Question 16

What did proponents of “soft money” advocate?

Question 17

In what way was How the Other Half Lives different from other contemporary writings on urban poverty?

Question 18

Public education was promoted as a means of

Question 19

Andrew Carnegie used _________________ integration to make his steel company as efficient as possible.

Question 20

How did Sears and Roebuck become a major retailer?

Question 21

Who argued in the 1880s that if the doctrine of survival of the fittest operated in the natural world, it must also govern the relationships between groups?

Question 22

How much land did federal, state, and local governments give to railroad companies to encourage construction?

Question 23

How did Moody engage the major social issues of his time?

Question 24

Whose singing help draw thousands Dwight Moody’s revivals?

Question 25

How did some Christian leaders criticize Dwight Moody?

 

How did children’s work in industry differ from their earlier contributions to the family economy

After the Civil War, a leading trend in business was the increase in exports of

What did the fate of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 demonstrate

Which of the following best characterizes the stories of Horatio Alger

The press stirred up rage over what aspect of the Haymarket Riot

Founded in 1866 by William Sylvis, the National Labor Union was

What was one disadvantage of the rise of industrialization for American workers

The department stores of the late 1800s offered a number of attractive policies, such as free delivery and a money back guarantee

The inventor of a business model known as the “trust” was

Which of the following groups would NOT have been affiliated with the new People’s Party in 1892?

Tammany Hall operatives worked to win the support of immigrants by

The Pendleton Act of 1883

Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis author Josiah Strong could best be characterized as

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was so weakened that it failed to curb big business in any meaningful way

The American Protective Association specifically focused on

A vaudeville show could BEST be described as

With the 1896 presidential election, the Republicans became the party representing

William Jennings Bryan’s famous “cross of gold” speech addressed which issue

How did Sears and Roebuck become a major retailer

Which of the following is not part of the Gospel of Success ideology

Where did most immigrants to the United States by 1900 originate

How much land did federal, state, and local governments give to railroad companies to encourage construction

How did Dwight Moody influence later evangelists?

How did Moody engage the major social issues of his time

How did some Christian leaders criticize Dwight Moody