Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Urban areas grew dramatically in the late 19th century.
Selected Answer: True
Question 2
0 out of 2 points
How did Sears and Roebuck become a major retailer?
Selected Answer: All of the above
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
In what type of building did most urban poor people live in by the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Selected Answer: Tenements
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following is not part of the Gospel of Success ideology?
Selected
Answer:
Gospel of Success supporters argue that only those who follow the Christian
Gospel will succeed.
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
Who founded Standard Oil?
Selected Answer: John Rockefeller
Question 6
0 out of 2 points
What was one of Moody’s most significant legacies?
Selected Answer: He created a fund-raising apparatus that is still copied by churches today.
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
How did Moody engage the major social issues of his time?
Selected Answer: All of these answers are correct.
Question 8
2 out of 2 points
In trying to reach people with the Gospel, Moody emphasized God’s judgment rather than God’s
love.
Selected Answer: False
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
Why did organized labor fail to make great gains in the late nineteenth century?
Selected Answer: All of the above were reasons for the failure of organized labor.
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
What best characterizes the steel industry in the United States prior to the Civil War?
Selected Answer: It barely developed at all.
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Henry Ford built the first gasoline-driven motor vehicle in America.
Selected Answer: False
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Which of the following events occurred during the Homestead strike of 1892?
Selected Answer: All of the events occurred.
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
What best describes industry in the United States in the late nineteenth century?
Selected Answer: It saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
Which labor event did Eugene V. Debs play a leading role in?
Selected Answer: The Pullman strike.
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
What type(s) of integration was the business structure of Carnegie Steel a good example of?
Selected Answer: Vertical integration
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Andrew Carnegie’s The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.
Selected Answer: True
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
What is significant about Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful airplane flight in 1903?
Selected Answer: The flight took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Question 18
2 out of 2 points
What best describes a tenement building in urban America?
Selected Answer: All of the answers are correct.
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
What did Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League seek to do in the 1890s?
Selected
Answer:
Force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for
women workers.
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
What was the primary goal of the American Protective Association?
Selected Answer: To stop immigrants from entering the United States.
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
At the end of the nineteenth century, the population density of Manhattan was higher than that of
the most crowded cities of Europe.
Selected Answer: True
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
What group initially resisted Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution?
Selected Answer: All of these answers are correct.
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
What statement about education in the late nineteenth century is true?
Selected Answer: Educational opportunities extended to Indian tribes as well.
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
According to your textbook, what did Jacob Riis accomplish?
Selected
Answer:
He reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage
improvements.
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
What competition did Princeton and Rutgers play as the first intercollegiate game in America in
1869?
Selected Answer: Football
