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Period 6 Strive for a 5 Multiple Choice

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  1. 1The expansion of railroads to the West Coast led to the
    1. Adestruction of American Indian habitats.
    2. Bfirst American Industrial Revolution in the Northeast.
    3. Crealization that private funding alone should build America's railroads.
    4. Dadmission of California as a free state.
  2. 2How did railroad companies encourage immigration?
    1. AThey offered free homesteads to those who would settle along rail lines.
    2. BThey paid high wages to workers who would emigrate from their home countries.
    3. CThey ran advertising campaigns in Europe for cheap railroad lands in the U.S.
    4. DThey lobbied the federal government to overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act.
  3. 3The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to
    1. Aincreased sectional tension.
    2. Bassimilation of Mexican Americans into society as equals.
    3. Chostility between the government and big business.
    4. Deconomic growth and the expansion of Asian markets.
  4. 4Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in which of the following?
    1. AIntegration of public schools
    2. BViolent riots that swept through major northern cities in the 1890s
    3. CRatification of the 15th Amendment by southern states that had been holding out
    4. DSecond-class citizenship for African Americans.
  5. 5Prior to 1900, most African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South
    1. Amigrated north and took jobs in industrial cities.
    2. Bbecame sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
    3. Cmigrated west to take advantage of free homesteads.
    4. Dleft the United States and emigrated to Africa.
  6. 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
    1. Aviolent protests.
    2. Bnonviolent civil disobedience.
    3. Ca "back-to-Africa" movement.
    4. Dgradual accommodation.
  7. 7Andrew Carnegie reflects which of the following business models of the Gilded Age in the above quote?
    1. AConspicuous consumption
    2. BSocial Darwinism
    3. CLaissez-faire economics
    4. DVertical integration
  8. 8The rise of big business was fostered by all of the following during the Gilded Age EXCEPT
    1. Aimproved transportation systems that opened new resources and market.
    2. Bthe strict laissez-faire policy of the federal government.
    3. Cplentiful natural resources.
    4. Da growing immigrant labor force.
  9. 9The general business climate of the Gilded Age
    1. Awelcomed competition as a motivator to improve the quality of products.
    2. Brejected overseas markets as unfeasible due to high transportation costs.
    3. Cendorsed the corporate model of the trust.
    4. Drejected the notion of conspicuous consumption.
  10. 10Immigrants tended to settle
    1. Ain coastal cities in the South.
    2. Bin rural areas of the North.
    3. Con the West Coast.
    4. Din industrial cities.

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