EOC Review 1

Which statement is true of the United States Constitution?

• The Constitution cannot be amended

• Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Constitution

• The Constitution was modeled on the French system of government.

• The Constitution’s checks and balances helped establish a stable government

The Declaration of Independence did all of the following EXCEPT

• appeal to the philosophy of natural rights

• call for the abolition of the slave trade

• appeal to the sympathies of the English people

• accuse George III of tyranny

Which of the following documents formed a national government?

• The Albany Plan of Union

• The United States Constitution

• The Federalist papers

• The Mayflower Compact

The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to

• test the new process of amendment described in the Constitution

• protect rights not specified in the Constitution

• strengthen the power of the federal government

• restore to the states the powers they had enjoyed under the Articles of Confederation

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 numbers of immigrants working in factories

• low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

• the presence of women in certain areas of industrial work

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the “new immigrants” of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

• practiced different religions

• had different languages and cultures

• were not familiar with the United States political system

• dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did which of the following?

• They enabled the urban middle class to participate more effectively in politics.

• They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support

• They encouraged racial integration of residential neighborhoods

• They discouraged railroad and highway construction to prevent people from moving out of urban areas

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to

• automation of industry

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

• development of the factory system

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?

• They were primarily unskilled laborers

• They were mainly female

• They were predominately from southern and eastern Europe.

• They tended to settle in urban areas.

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

• Latin America

• Asia

• Canada

• Eastern European farms and villages