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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH - GILDED AGE
EXAM QUESTIONS
Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation
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Question 1: Why was it hard for labor unions to be effective?
Answer:
- there was always someone waiting to replace their jobs
- employers are much more powerful than workers
- courts are pro-biz
Question 2: Knights of Labor
Answer:
labor union est. 1869 only excluded Chinese workers was secret until 1881
Question 3: "New Immigration"
Answer:
1880s, new wave of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe that swarmed to US
Question 4: New Jewish demographic came from where and what conditions?
Answer:
came from Russia, Polish sector fled from religious persecution to New York
Question 5: significance of Transcontinental Railroad completion
Answer:
- connects West to rest of U.S.
- later facilitates trade with Asian countries
- impressive engineering feat for the U.S.
Question 6: America was being run by....
Answer:
Big businesses Question 7: Which Gilded-Age American businessman invented/wrote "The Gospel of Wealth"?
Answer:
Andrew Carnegie
Question 8: Haymarket Square riot (what, when, where)
Answer:
- Chicago, IL, May 4th 1886
May Day rally was going to be broken up by Chicago police until someone threw a dynamite bomb, killing and injuring police and civilians
Question 9: American Protective Association
Answer:
(APA), had policy of nativism and antiforeignism, targeted Roman Catholics and nuns
Question 10: Ida Tarbell
Answer:
muckraker who exposed Standard Oil
Question 11: Why did businesses employ such methods as ironclad oaths/yellow-dog contracts and blacklisting on their employees?
Answer:
to prevent strikes via formation of labor unions Question 12: - man who switched from multimillion steamboat success to railroading in his late 60s
- popularized steel rails
- helped expand older Eastern rail networks like NY Central to accommodate Westward railines
of Union and Central Pacific
Answer:
"Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt
Question 13: accommodationist claims of Booker T. Washington
Answer:
only addressed what Blacks needed to do to improve stopped short of acknowledging white supremacy advocated segregated vocational classes on the path to equality
Question 14: The Gospel of Wealth
Answer:
by Andrew Carnegie
- divine order for rich people to be rich
- rich people hold moral responsibility to uplift the poor
- rich people should donate
Question 15: Leland Stanford
Answer:
- enterprising ex-gov. of California
- part of the Big 4; helped with his political connections
Question 16: The ICC is an example of what bureaucratic agency?
Answer:
independent REGULATORY agency; regulates interstate commerce
Question 17: Jacob Riis
Answer:
muckraker who documented the realities of city life for the working class/poor
Question 18: 4 railroads created after Transcontinental Railroad
Answer:
- Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific RRs in 1883
- The Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe RR in 1884
- Great Northern RR in 1893
Question 19: most prominent demographic among New Immigration
Answer:
Italians
Question 20: "Wedding of the Rails"
Answer:
combining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific RRs
Question 21: Booker T. Washington
Answer:
Alabaman ex-slave who the foremost champion for education for African-Americans advocated economic independence of Blacks Question 22: ICC (hint : Interstate Commerce Act)
Answer:
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- formed by Interstate Commerce Act to administer and enforce new laws in ICA
Question 23: Upton Sinclair
Answer:
muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry in book "The Jungle"
Question 24: Wabash, St, Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois
Answer:
- 1886
- SCOTUS declared that states cannot regulate interstate commerce (only Fed can)
- led Congress to pass Interstate Commerce Act and form ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)
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