.. . .. .business district. c. resulted in a rapid loss of population in the core of cities. d. had little effect on where workers lived because few could afford to regularly travel by mass transit. ____ 6. The first electric trolley, or streetcar, began service in a. Richmond, Virginia. c. Cleveland, Ohio. .____ 7. During the late 1800s, the middle class . ____ 8. During the late 1800s, the working poor . ____ 9. During the last half of the 1800s, educational reform a ____ 10. Between 1865 and 1910, the numbers of newspapers in the United States ____ 11. Edith Wharton was a ____ 12. The first professional baseball team, which began playing ball in 1869, was the ____ 13. James Naismith invented the game of ____ 14. Many Americans attended the theater and enjoyed melodramatic performances in which Americanized immigrants. d ____ 15. Based on the graph above, in which year did the largest number of immigrants enter the United States? ____ 16. The main strength of political machines resided with ____ 17. Political bosses and precinct captains a. often formed personal relationships with constituents. ____ 18. Some political bosses a. became less corrupt when they were elected to official . ____ 19. Thomas Nast a. was extremely popular, but his success failed to influence the popularity of political cartoons in general. b. refused to use caricature as a means of attacking political leaders whom he opposed. c. staunchly supported William Tweed with his cartoons. d. popularized the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey. ____ 20. Which of the following scandals did NOT involve President Grant’s administration? a. Jay Gould and James Fisk’s attempt to corner the gold market. b. Crédit Mobilier’s gifts of stock to members of Congress, which resulted in profitable subsidies for stockholders. c. Treasury Department officials accepted bribes from whiskey distillers and distributors. d. Grant’s vice president, Schuyler Colfax, and members of Congress accepted bribes to support the silver standard. ____ 21. The Gilded Age was a novel written by a. Mark Twain and Coach Boyd b. .Coach Phillips c. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. d. Thomas Nast and Mary had A Little Lamb ____ 22. The only U.S. president to serve two nonconsecutive terms was a “honest man’ a. . ____ 23. When Benjamin Harrison won the presidency in 1888, he a. spearheaded the repeal of the Pendleton Civil Service Act. b. broke with his party and supported additional political reform. c. doubled the list of federal jobs covered by the civil service list. d. allowed Republicans to fill almost every federal job not covered by the civil service list with members of their party. ____ 24. The Republican-controlled Congress of 1890 . ____ 25. When state governments passed Granger laws, a. farmers complained that railroad freight rates were already higher for short routes than for long ones. b. many farmers had to sell their farms and become farm laborers. c. railroads protested that only the federal government, not states, could regulate railroads. d. bankers protested that the states could not regulate interest rates on farm loans. ____ 26. Farmers wanted the government to back paper money with silver because it would put more money in circulation, thereby a. reducing the value of the dollar and enabling them to pay off debts more easily. b. increasing the cost of shipping and grain storage. c. increasing the cost of labor. d. decreasing the price of crops and animals and enabling them to sell more of them. ____ 27. The Populist Party a.. ____ 28. The Populist Party lost its influence and faded from the national scene because a. voters wanted their currency backed by both silver and gold. b. voters were tired of corruption in government. c. farmers’ economic situations improved and they lost interest in the party. d. business leaders withdrew from the party, giving their support instead to William McKinley in the 1896 election. ____ 29. Based on the information in the chart above, what conclusions can you draw about the effects of falling prices on farmers in the late 1800s? a. Prices made it more expensive for farmers to feed themselves. b. Falling prices required farmers to produce more and receive less money. c. Prices caused factory workers to move to rural areas in search of jobs. d. The price changes had little or no effect on U.S. farmers. . Matching Match each item with the correct statement. a. new immigrants k. settlement houses b. steerage l. Elisha Otis c. benevolent societies m. Jane Addams d. Scott Joplin n. compulsory education laws e. Chinese Exclusion Act o. City Beautiful movement f. Immigration Restriction League p. ragtime g. Denis Kearney q. John Dewey h. skyscrapers r. Walter Camp i. mass transit s. James Naismith j. nouveau riche ____ 30. a second wave of immigrants to the United States that arrived between 1891 and 1910 ____ 31. developed the mechanized elevator to transport people between floors in multistoried buildings ____ 32. state laws that required parents to send their children to school ____ 33. a French term meaning “newly rich” ____ 34. the poorest accommodations on a steamship ____ 35. a woman who was at the forefront of the settlement-house movement ____ 36. community service centers that were established in poor neighborhoods to provide educational opportunities, training, and cultural events for neighborhood residents ____ 37. an educational reformer who emphasized “learning by doing” ____ 38. a movement that stressed the need to include parks and attractive boulevards in the design of cities ____ 39. large, multistory buildings ____ 40. public transportation, such as electric commuter trains, subways, and trolley cars ____ 41. religious and nonreligious aid organizations created to aid immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death ____ 42. an organization that sought to limit immigration by imposing a literacy test on all immigrants ____ 43. the King of Ragtime Completion Complete each sentence or statement. Choose from the following list to complete each of the statements below. political machines political bosses graft James Pendergast Thomas Nast Gilded Age Stalwarts Pendleton Civil Service Act mugwumps James A. Garfield Benjamin Harrison National Grange cooperatives Interstate Commerce Act gold standard Populist Party James B. Weaver William Jennings Bryan 44. The first major farmers’ organization was the _________________________. 45. Many farmers formed ____________________ so they could buy machinery at wholesale and sell their produce directly to big-city markets. 46. The latter half of the 1800s was called the ____________________ because corruption and greed lurked just below the polite and prosperous luster of society. 47. _________________________ was assassinated in 1881, just four months after taking office as president. 48. During President Hayes’s administration, the Republican Party split in two; one half became known as the Half-Breeds and the other half as the ____________________. 49. Political parties that were especially successful in getting their candidates elected to local political offices were called _________________________. 50. The ______________________________ prohibited railroads from giving secret rebates to large shippers or charging more for short hauls than for long ones over the same line. 51. When the _________________________ was adopted, every dollar in circulation could be exchanged for a set amount of gold. 52. Reformers within the Republican Party who abandoned the party’s candidate for president and instead supported the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland, were called ____________________. 53. The _________________________, which included Alliance members, farmers, labor leaders, and reformers, called for a graduated income tax, bank regulation, and government ownership of railroad and telegraph companies. 54. Many political bosses became wealthy and powerful through ____________________. 55. Harper’s Weekly claimed that the cartoons of _________________________ increased the magazine’s subscriptions by 200,000. Immigration and Gilded Age of Politics
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