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Chapter 24 and 25 Take Home Quiz

**Chapter 24

Supply the correct identification for each description. Answers may NOT be typed and must be in pen.

1. This federally owned acreage was granted to the railroad companies in order to encourage the building of rail

lines

2. Name the original transcontinental railroad, commissioned by Congress, which built its rail line west from

Omaha

3. The California-based railroad company, headed by Leland Stanford, that employed Chinese laborers in

building its lines across the mountains

4. The northernmost of the transcontinental railroad lines, organized by economically wise and public-spirited

industrialist James J. Hill.

5. Dishonest device by which railroad promoters artificially inflated the price of their stocks and bonds

6. Supreme Court case of 1886 that prevented states from regulating railroads or other forms of interstate

commerce

7. Federal agency often used by rail companies to stabilize the industry and prevent ruinous competition

8. Late-nineteenth-century invention that revolutionized communication and created a large new industry that

relied heavily on female workers

9. First of the great industrial trusts, organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly

incorporated or destroyed competitors

10. The first billion-dollar American corporation, organized when J. P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie

11. Term that identified southern promoters’ belief in a technologically advanced industrial South

12. The first major U.S. industrial labor organization, which collapsed during the depression of the 1870s

13. Black labor organization that briefly flourished in the late 1860s

14. Secret, ritualistic labor organization that enrolled many skilled and unskilled workers but collapsed suddenly

after the Haymarket Square bombing

15. Skilled labor organizations, such as those of carpenters and printers, that were most successful in conducting

strikes and raising wages

16. The conservative labor group that successfully organized a minority of American workers but left others out

**Chapter 25

Supply the correct identification for each description. Answers may NOT be typed and must be in pen.

17. High-rise urban buildings that provided barracks-like housing for urban slum dwellers

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18. The religious doctrines preached by those who believed the churches should directly address economic and

social problems

19. The settlement house in the Chicago slums that became a model for women’s involvement in urban social

reform

20. The profession established by Jane Addams and others that opened new opportunities for women in the

modern city

21. Nativist organization that attacked “New Immigrants” and Roman Catholicism in the 1880s and 1890s

22. The church that became the largest American religious group, mainly as a result of the “New Immigration”

23. Black educational institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts

24. The organization founded by W. E. B. Du Bois and others to advance black social and economic equality

25. Organization formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to promote the vote for women

26. Women’s organization founded by reformer Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption

27. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s book urging women to enter the work force and advocating cooperative kitchens

and child-care centers

28. Henry George’s best-selling book that advocated social reform through the imposition of a “single tax” on

land

29. Immigrants who came to America to earn money for a time and then returned to their native land

30. Term for the post-1880 newcomers who came to America primarily from southern and eastern Europe

Short Answer--

31. Explain the Gospel of Wealth—

32. What impact did American authors such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Jack London have on

literature?

33. Who was Charles Darwin and how was his theory twisted into a justification for not helping the poor?