One result of the respect accorded the AFL was that in 1894 __________. A) the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was repealed B) Labor Day was made a national holiday C) the Labor and Republican parties merged D) Samuel Gompers was appointed as Secretary of Labor ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was one of the first to be devoted to __________. A) improving worker efficiency B) industrial research C) solving environmental problems D) fighting diseases ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What factors contributed to economic growth in the half century following the Civil War? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: the role of government; the transcontinental railroad; new technologies; new forms of marketing
Date: September 9th, 2020
After being jailed for his part in the Pullman strike, Eugene V. Debs became a __________. A) socialist B) Democrat C) Republican D) communist ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most important area of government expansion in the Gilded Age was __________. A) oversight of commerce B) enforcing civil rights C) promoting workers’ rights D) providing social welfare benefits ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Reformer Henry George ran for mayor of New York on the __________ ticket. A) New Republican Party B) United Labor Party C) Populist Party D) Liberty Party ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Sociologist Lester Frank Ward debunked social Darwinism on the grounds that __________. A) organic and social evolution were fundamentally different B) nurture is more important than nature C) it denied God’s power over humans D) humanity would need thousands of years to adjust to nature ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Japanese immigrants could not obtain American citizenship because __________. A) they were not white B) they wanted to maintain dual loyalties C) Japan did not allow them to become American citizens D) they did not wish to permanently reside in the United States ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The “Wisconsin Idea” was promoted by Governor Robert La Follette as a way of __________. A) promoting industry B) protecting state forests and watersheds C) applying academic scholarship and theory to human needs D) strengthening direct democracy ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What assumptions and beliefs were shared by most progressives? How did these assumptions and beliefs shape the progressive movement? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: reactions to industrial capitalism; individualism versus collective action; social responsibility; the possibility of progress
Date: September 9th, 2020
