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Period 6 Strive for a 5 Multiple Choice
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1The expansion of railroads to the West Coast led to the
- Adestruction of American Indian habitats.
- Bfirst American Industrial Revolution in the Northeast.
- Crealization that private funding alone should build America's railroads.
- Dadmission of California as a free state.
2How did railroad companies encourage immigration?
- AThey offered free homesteads to those who would settle along rail lines.
- BThey paid high wages to workers who would emigrate from their home countries.
- CThey ran advertising campaigns in Europe for cheap railroad lands in the U.S.
- DThey lobbied the federal government to overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act.
3The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to
- Aincreased sectional tension.
- Bassimilation of Mexican Americans into society as equals.
- Chostility between the government and big business.
- Deconomic growth and the expansion of Asian markets.
4Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in which of the following?
- AIntegration of public schools
- BViolent riots that swept through major northern cities in the 1890s
- CRatification of the 15th Amendment by southern states that had been holding out
- DSecond-class citizenship for African Americans.
5Prior to 1900, most African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South
- Amigrated north and took jobs in industrial cities.
- Bbecame sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
- Cmigrated west to take advantage of free homesteads.
- Dleft the United States and emigrated to Africa.
6While mainstream African American leaders of the late Gilded Age differed in how they sought to end segregated society, many followed a moderate course that called for
- Aviolent protests.
- Bnonviolent civil disobedience.
- Ca "back-to-Africa" movement.
- Dgradual accommodation.
7Andrew Carnegie reflects which of the following business models of the Gilded Age in the above quote?
- AConspicuous consumption
- BSocial Darwinism
- CLaissez-faire economics
- DVertical integration
8The rise of big business was fostered by all of the following during the Gilded Age EXCEPT
- Aimproved transportation systems that opened new resources and market.
- Bthe strict laissez-faire policy of the federal government.
- Cplentiful natural resources.
- Da growing immigrant labor force.
9The general business climate of the Gilded Age
- Awelcomed competition as a motivator to improve the quality of products.
- Brejected overseas markets as unfeasible due to high transportation costs.
- Cendorsed the corporate model of the trust.
- Drejected the notion of conspicuous consumption.
10Immigrants tended to settle
- Ain coastal cities in the South.
- Bin rural areas of the North.
- Con the West Coast.
- Din industrial cities.
11The rapid increase in population in Gilded Age industrial cities led to
- Aneighborhoods composed of mixed classes where the rich mingled with the poor.
- Bthe rich tending to move to the center city.
- Cimmigrants moving to the city periphery because of easy access to streetcars.
- Dethnic ghettos that tended to be settled by people of the same nationality.
12The rapid increase in the pace and character of immigration after 1890 led to
- Aincreased nativist sentiment.
- Bthe resurrection of the Know-Nothings as a major third party in presidential elections.
- Cmassive deportations of Catholics and Jews.
- Dthe voluntary return of a majority of immigrants to their country of origin.
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- Quiz am Period 6 Strive for a 5 Multiple Choice, erstellt von Tumaini Sango am 20/01/2017.
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