NC Final Exam Review - Gilded Age

When was the Gilded Age?

• 1870-1900
• 1820-1860
• 1900-1920
• 1865-1877

The Farmer's Alliance and the Grange, both founded during the Gilded Age, stood for additional government regulation of trade and creating the conditions for more political power and economic well being for farmers (as compared to industrialists).  What 1890s group was founded, supporting these ideas, and attacking the Gold Standard?

• Progressives
• Free Soil Party
• IWW
• Populists

What was the name of the law, passed in 1883 during the Gilded Age, that sought to reform government?  It required government applicants to take competitive exams so that they would be hired based upon merit rather than political affiliation.  This law was passed in response to widespread political corruption and the assassination of President Garfield.

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Pendelton Civil Service Act
• Underwood Tariff Act
• Celler-Kefaufer Act

In 1886 in the Wabash Cases, during the Gilded Age, the Supreme Court limited the ability of the state to set railroad rates on interstate commerce (rail traffic crossing state boundaries).  The court clarified that the ability to regulate interstate commerce was the province of the Congress.  in 1887, Congress passed what law, in part, because of the Wabash Cases?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Celler-Kefauver Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act

What was the name of the group, caught in 1875 during the Gilded Age, that diverted whiskey tax money in bribes to high government officials including President Grant's aid Orville Babcock?  It was a conspiracy between large whiskey distillers and government officials.

• whiskey ring
• no
• no
• no

What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt.  For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.

• Daley
• Grant
• Tilden
• Tweed

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics

Congressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal.  This was done to stop the abusiv practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco...

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Celler-Kefauver Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Interstate Commerce Act

A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.

• monopoly
• corporation
• trust
• horizontal Integration

Standard Oil was founded in 1870 by John d. Rockefeller (during the Gilded Age).  Established as a trust, it gained monopolistic pricing power in oil and kerosene and was able to demand and receive exceptionally favorable shipping rates from railroads.  In 1905, during the Progressive Era, who attacked Standard Oil as a too pwoerful monopoly?

• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair
• Harvey Wiley
• Andrew Carnegie