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Gilded Age Quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wounded Knee Massacre 1890: what happened? (2) which side had more casualties? (1) what is this known as? (1) | 250+ lakota massacred; 7th cavalry was sent to disarm lakotas -- turned into a disaster; NAs suffered many more casualties than the 7th cavalry; last dispute/war with NAs in american history |
| who were ghost dancers? (1) what did they preach/encourage? (2) what did they believe a certain someone would do? (4) | NAs trying to bring back dead spirits with the living to end the US westward expansion; preached abstinence from alcohol; encouraged NAs to unite; said Christ would return in form of NA, restore their lands, bring back buffalo, and return ancestors |
| How did the influx of immigrants change from before the Civil War to the Gilded Age? (1) what was their main challenge? (1) | new immigrants involves more southeastern europeans and italians; immigrants have a hard time adapting to english and/or do not speak english |
| What is the Dawes Act of 1887? (1) what were two major negative impacts? (2) what did those compliant receive? (1) | a land allotment that NAs had to pay for their land; assimilating and redistributing NA lands leads to cultural destruction; surplus of land would go to non-NA settlers; those accepting allotment gained citizenship |
| what was the economic policy of the gilded age? (1) what is it (1) what did this lead to? | laissez faire economics - government allowed businesses to run the economics; industrialization progressing faster than morality |
| who was chester arthur? (3) what act did he sign? (1) what did that act do? (2) | VP of andrew garfield, corrupt politician, took over as president once garfield died; Pendleton Act Civil Service Act of 1883; civil service exams required for gov. positions to prove qualifications, furthers meritocracy/merit system over spoils system |
| what was the significance of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle? (2) what political standpoint spread? (1) what did it lead to? (4) | darwin's theorizations of natural selection and evolution; social darwinism resulted amongst the captains of industry; led to racial prejudice, unfair business benefits, values "survival of the fittest", inferiority of cultures |
| what was the significance of the credit mobilier scandal? (2) what part of the transcontinental railroad construction was involved? (1) | a scandal under grant's administration, fictitious railroad company squired money from the gov; union pacific company |
| what did cities become during the immigration influx of the Gilded Age? (3) what is tenement housing? (2) | cities became overcrowded, dirty, and unsafe; an apartment system embodying the drastic change of city life (crowded housing among working-class immigrants) |
| what is seward's folly? (1) what did this prove to be for the US? (1) what made it that way? (2) | william seward (sec of state) negotiated a treaty to purchase alaska for $7.2 million; became a huge american success; the alaskan gold rush and the oil discovery |
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i.lundin