Period 6 Review (AP Style + Content Review)

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.

The photo demonstrates one of the problems with

• overcrowding urban tenements.
• labor union activism in urban areas.
• the overproduction of consumer goods.
• the growth of political machines.

Who was responsible for the idea of the "Gospel of Wealth?"

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• John Morgan

• Jay Gould

In this political cartoon, who is in charge of the Senate?

• The US Senators
• the US Constitution
• The owners of monopolies/ industrialists
• the American people

Which of the following would have been most likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt?

• Know-Nothings

• Machine politicians

• Southern Democrats

• Settlement house workers

Which of the following contributed most to the process described in the excerpt?

• The industrialization of urban areas in the Northeast

• The building of new roads and canals

• Increased immigration from eastern Europe

• Legislation that facilitated the distribution of western land

Which of the following was a long-term result of the developments described in the excerpt?

• The growth of political tensions between the United States and Mexico

• A conflict with Great Britain over the northern border of the United States

• A large-scale African American migration to the region

• The creation of farmers’ groups to resist corporate control of agricultural markets

Which of the following changes to the United States during the nineteenth century most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

• The rapid growth of cities

• The dismantling of the national bank

• The acquisition of territory in the West

• The rise of the People’s (Populist) Party

The image was created most directly in response to

• social reform efforts by settlement-house workers

• poll taxes and literacy tests that blocked African Americans from voting

• the power gained by urban political machines

• the exclusion of women from voting

The “temporary unequal distribution of wealth” that Carnegie refers to in the excerpt resulted most directly from the

• growth of cities in both size and number

• consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

• efforts by workers to organize local and national unions

• government policy of reducing tariffs to promote free trade