CHAPTER ONE IN WHO BUILT AMERICA:

• Sections 091 & 111 -- Quiz on Wednesday, February 16

• Section   141 -- Quiz on Thursday, February 17

Chapter one looks at major changes in American history after the Civil War.   As you read, make a list of what you consider the ten most important changes.  Make sure you can answer all the questions. 

1.  How did railroads change the U.S. conception of time in the late nineteenth century?

A)      Set up many competing local time zones.  B) Established a few standardized and geographically large time zones.  C) Created a single time-zone for the entire U.S.  D) Did away with train schedules. 

2.  Which word or words do NOT describe economic development in the late nineteenth century?

A)      Growth.  B) Volatility.  C) Stability.  D) Overproduction. 

3.  Which grew at a faster rate, 1865-1900?

A) Agriculture.  B) Manufacturing.

4.  Which grew at a faster rate, 1865-1900?

A) Rural America.  B) Urban America.
 

5.  Which grew at a faster rate, 1865-1900?

A) Self employed workforce.  B) Wage labor force.

6.  Which grew at a faster rate, 1865-1900?

A) Residents born in the U.S.  B) Immigrants.
 

7.  Which of the following characterized the trend in income distribution in the U.S., 1865-1900?

A) Growing income equality.  B) Growing income inequality.  C) No significant change in income distribution.
 

8.  Between 1870-1890, real wages (how much your wages can buy) for working Americans:

A)      Increased.  B) Decreased.  C) Stayed about the same.
 

9.  Between 1870-1890, the U.S. working class became:

A)      More diverse and more stratified.  B) More diverse and less stratified. C)  Less diverse and less stratified. D) Less diverse and more stratified.
 

10.  John D. Rockefeller is an example of a late 19^th century businessman who made his fortune by:

A)      Government land grabs for his railroads.  B) Creating railroad pools in the 1870s.  C) Vertical and horizontal integration in the oil industry.  D) Carrying vertical integration in the steel industry further than any of his contemporaries.
 

11.  Which of the following is NOT an example of vertical integration. 

A)      Andrew Carnegie building his steel empire.  B) John D. Rockefeller’s domination of the oil industry.  C. Jay Gould rigging the stock market by issuing watered stock.

12.  The compromise of 1877 resulted in:

A)      A republican president and Democratic Party control of the South.  B) A democratic president and Republican Party control of the South.  C) A republican president and republican party control of the South.  D) A democratic president and Democratic Party control of the South.
 

13.  After the Civil War (1865-1890), industrial development in the South was mainly financed by:

A)      Northern investors.  B) Southern investors.  C) European investors.
 

14.  Cotton mills in the South paid workers___________than mill workers in Massachusetts.

A)      Much more.  B) Much less.  C) About the same. 

15.  Textile workers in post-Civil War southern cotton mills were:

A) Overwhelming black.  B) Overwhelmingly white.  C) Overwhelmingly immigrant.  D) Integrated racially and ethnically. 
 

16.  As southern agriculture changed from subsistence to commercial production after the Civil War, which of the following generally enjoyed a higher standard of living and more economic independence?

A)      Black sharecroppers.  B) White farmers in the crop lien system.  C) Neither A or B.  D) Both A and B.
 

17.  Which of the following disrupted traditional Indian culture:

A)      Destruction of the buffalo.  B) Protestant-oriented Indian Schools.  C) The Dawes Allotment Act.  D) All the above.  E) None of the above.
 

18.  Which of the following groups was most likely to be exploited as contract labor (on railroads and in mines) in the West, 1865-1900.

A) African-Americans.  B) Native Americans (Indians).  C)  Chinese immigrants.  D) Mexican migrants.