APUSH Unit 6 Quiz A

All of the following are true about railroad expansion in the late 19th century EXCEPT that is

• was financed by private corporations without government assistance

• accelerated the growth of some older cities and created new ones

• led to new managerial forms and techniques

• opened new territories to commercial agriculture

The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

• restore to American Indians land seized unjustly

• assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture

• remove all American Indians to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma

• Recognize and preserve the tribal cultures of American Indians

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to...

• federal protection of workers' rights to organize

• the large number of immigrants working in factories

• low wages and dangerous working conditions in industrial work

• the presence of women in certain areas of industrial work

The method of mass production that developed during the 19th century was a process that

• gave workers greater autonomy, less supervision, and the chance to be creative

• utilized wireless communications to improve efficiency

• relied on the use of power-driven machinery

• promoted more cooperation between labor unions and factory workers

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following?

• upheld literacy testing as a condition of voting in federal elections

• outlawed segregation in public schools

• upheld segregated railroad facilities

• restricted the right to purchase or sell land