End of First Term Exam Review #1

W.E.B. Du Bois argued that African Americans should educate themselves so they could

• assimilate into white culture

• win acceptance from white politicians

• learn a trade

• provide leadership in the fight for civil rights

What did Senator Sherman determine was the impact of trusts on the capitalist economy?

• He proposed punishing monopolies by transferring ownership of corporations to the government.

• He suggested the law would help consumers by protecting unrestricted competition among industries

• He suggested that government was needed to balance the power of concentrated wealth

• He proposed to protect economic growth by requiring that profits be distributed to workers

According to the theory of Social Darwinism, the government should

• outlaw trusts and cartels

• raise taxes on the rich

• stay out of the affairs of business

• protect the rights of workers

The Pendleton Civil Service Act was passed to

• end the spoil system

• print money backed by silver rather than gold

• place additional regulation on the railroads

• end Japanese immigration to the United States

Andrew Carnegie argued that the success of wealthy industrialists

• should be limited by the government

• had no effect on average Americans

• was illegal according to the Sherman Antitrust Act

• helped the entire nation

The main objective of the nativists was to

• repeal laws that restricted immigration

• build tenement apartments for immigrants

• help immigrants adjust to American culture

• restrict immigration

Fredrick Jackson Turner's thesis held that the frontier

• had little effect on the American character

• destroyed the West and the Americans who went there

• would continue to exist for at least another 50 years

• helped create the strong, individualistic American spirit

The government responded to the Pullman Strike by

• using federal troops to control the workers

• taking Pullman officials to court

• forcing unions and workers to negotiate

• shutting down railway operations

In the 1890s, immigration patterns shifted dramatically, with most immigrants now coming from

• Mexico and Central America

• Northern European countries

• China and Japan

• Southern and Eastern European countries

During the early 1900s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was an example of how African Americans

• founded settlement houses in black neighborhoods

• used the court system to fight discrimination

• formed their own political parties

• ended all segregation in the South