HY 121 Ch 16
timber states - correct answer ✔✔Washington
gold, silver, and copper states - correct answer ✔✔Colorado
Colorado states - correct answer ✔✔Texas
Identify the statements that describe the economic changes that occurred between 1870 and 1920. -
correct answer ✔✔- The GNP per capita between 1870 and 1920 more than doubled.
- Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in industry grew significantly.
- Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in agriculture decreased significantly.
The "overwhelming labor question" replaced slavery as the hot-button topic in the late nineteenth
century. Identify the events and actions that illustrate the "overwhelming labor question." - correct
answer ✔✔- the Great Railroad Strike
- Troops fired on striking workers in Pittsburgh, killing twenty people.
- The federal government built National Guard armories in major cities to ensure troops would be on
hand if strikes got out of control.
In this video, Eric Foner discusses court decisions held against labor on the grounds of individual
freedom, specifically liberty of contract. What were the most important decisions made by the Court? -
correct answer ✔✔- The Supreme Court overturned laws that made it illegal for companies to pay their
employees in scrip that could only be used at certain stores on the grounds it violated the right of
property of these corporations.
- The Supreme Court ruled that state laws regulating corporate behavior, limiting the number of hours a
person could work, were unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1879, the United States went off the gold standard to help debt-ridden farmers. - correct answer
✔✔False
timber states - correct answer ✔✔Washington
gold, silver, and copper states - correct answer ✔✔Colorado
Colorado states - correct answer ✔✔Texas
Identify the statements that describe the economic changes that occurred between 1870 and 1920. -
correct answer ✔✔- The GNP per capita between 1870 and 1920 more than doubled.
- Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in industry grew significantly.
- Between 1870 and 1920, the percentage of people employed in agriculture decreased significantly.
The "overwhelming labor question" replaced slavery as the hot-button topic in the late nineteenth
century. Identify the events and actions that illustrate the "overwhelming labor question." - correct
answer ✔✔- the Great Railroad Strike
- Troops fired on striking workers in Pittsburgh, killing twenty people.
- The federal government built National Guard armories in major cities to ensure troops would be on
hand if strikes got out of control.
In this video, Eric Foner discusses court decisions held against labor on the grounds of individual
freedom, specifically liberty of contract. What were the most important decisions made by the Court? -
correct answer ✔✔- The Supreme Court overturned laws that made it illegal for companies to pay their
employees in scrip that could only be used at certain stores on the grounds it violated the right of
property of these corporations.
- The Supreme Court ruled that state laws regulating corporate behavior, limiting the number of hours a
person could work, were unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1879, the United States went off the gold standard to help debt-ridden farmers. - correct answer
✔✔False
