Final Exam US History Semester 2

Which factor contributed to the decline of political machines?

• passage of suffrage for women

• introduction of the spoils system

• . passage of civil service reforms

• demands of nativists

In which type of 19th century organization were businesses combined in order to reduce competition?

• trust

• partnership

• sole proprietorship

• joint-stock company

Which of the following acts by the United States government ended religious expression for the Sioux Nation and closed the American Frontier?

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Massacre at Wounded Knee

• Fetterman's Massacre

• Custer's Last Stand

How did railroads MOST impact farming in the West during the late 1800s?

• A. They connected farms with distant markets for selling their harvest

• They helped large landowners illegally acquire land from homesteaders.

• The greater ease of transportation led many farmers to change to cattle ranching.

• they made owning large farms more difficult by laying tracks through farmlands.

Powerful industrials like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called both “Captains of Industry” and “Robber Barons” because

• they provided good paying jobs, but produced unsafe products.

• they provided new goods and services while underpaying their laborers.

• they supported workplace reform but drove thier competitors out of business.

• they worked closely with their competitors and charged consumers incredibly high prices.

What was one effect of industrialization on the U.S. economy in the 1870s?

• a decline in skilled manufacturing jobs in the Midwest

• an increase in sharecropper farming in the South

• . a decline in the immigrant population of cities in the North

• an increase in railroad construction in the West

How did the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad affect the demographics of the United States during Reconstruction?

• It increased the need for laborers in urban areas

• It limited the need for foreign immigrants.

• It encouraged westward expansion

• . It altered the economy in southern rural areas.

The Dust Bowl in the 1930s resulted from

• . the over-use of farmland.

• the introduction of new crops

• government work programs.

• increased pollution.

Which event was a cause of the Spanish-American War?

• . the construction of the Panama Canal

• the discovery of the Zimmerman Telegram

• the sinking of the Maine

• the intervention of U.S. forces in Hawaii

“Yellow Journalists” influenced U.S. participation in which conflict?

• World War I

• the Mexican-American War

• World War II

• the Spanish American War