APUSH - Period 6 Review

One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits was 

• Elimination of as much competition as possible
• Supporting a centrally planned economy
• Funding research on new technologies
• Elimination of the tactic of vertical integration

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for its rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

During the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Under the philosophy of __________________________, men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, museums, and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.

• Geopolitical expansion
• Political bosses
• Social Darwinism
• Gospel of Wealth

Due to the period of increased corruption from railroad companies, the U.S. government created the ___________________________  to regulate railroad companies.

• Interstate Commerece Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontiental Act
• Laissez Faire Act 

The Farmer's Alliance, the Grange, and the ______________ stood for additional government regulation of trade, currency,  and the protection of other farmers' interests.

• Progressives
• Free Soil Party
• Knights of Labor
• Populists

Which congressional action was taken in 1890 to render illegal any "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade? 

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

In 1890, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Ida Wells
• Jacob Riis

William Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age,  believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed.  This philosophy was called...

• Evolution
• Monetary Policy
• Social Darwinism
• Welfare Capitalism

Based on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?

• The federal government was placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.
• The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.
• The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.
• Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.