Key Period 6 Test Corrections

Which of the following developments helps to explain the change in agriculture depicted in the graph?

• The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods.

• The growth of an internal slave trade provided an enlarged workforce whose labor helped increase agricultural production.

• Farmers’ cooperative organizations reduced consolidation in the agricultural markets in order to increase production.

• Increased migration from the West for industrial jobs in eastern cities led to increased consumption of agricultural goods.

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6.2

Which of the following contributed to reducing the conflict that article 11 and similar provisions of other treaties were designed to address?

• The rerouting of several major railroads to avoid tribal lands

• A decrease in the number of White settlers traveling near reservations

• The implementation of government conservation policies that protected large areas of public land

• The destruction of nearly the entire population of buffalo

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6.3

Which of the following policies would Carnegie most likely have supported?

• The use of federal power to redistribute wealth

• Government creation of jobs for unemployed people

• Increased regulation of corporations

• Laissez-faire economics

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6.6

The practices of big-business leaders in the late 1800s best reflect which of the following actions illustrated by the excerpt?

• Big-business leaders misused most of the money that they inherited on unprofitable ventures.

• Big-business leaders cared little about the working conditions for laborers in their factories.

• Big-business leaders supported government efforts to lessen the effects of depressions.

• Big-business leaders used their influence to facilitate rapid economic growth.

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6.6

Why did the United States follow a policy of unrestricted immigration during most of the 1800s?

• Business and industry depended on the foreign capital brought by immigrants

• Most Americans desired a more diversified culture

• The industrial economy needed many unskilled workers

• The United States wanted to help European nations by taking their surplus population

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6.8

Which of the following can best be concluded about the late 1800s based on the situation in which the excerpt was produced?

• Industrialists focused on establishing international markets for their products.

• People debated the best means for expanding educational opportunities.

• Politicians argued about whether to increase taxes on people with wealth.

• Workers supported the consolidation of businesses into corporations.

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6.11

Which of the following arguments about the United States economy during the Gilded Age could the historical situation of the excerpt best be used to support?

• The spread of the industrial economy helped to increase social stability.

• The increased adoption of the division of labor harmed the living standards of most Americans.

• Economic changes produced debates over how to organize the national economy.

• Most politicians opposed government intervention in the economy during economic downturns.

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6.11

The author of the excerpt above was most likely motivated by the

• Continuation of racial policies following Reconstruction

• Federal reforms that encouraged education

• Debate over the benefits of the “New South”

• Support of black suffrage from white Southern politicians

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6.4

Which of the following was designed to reform the situation illustrated in the cartoon?

• The Pendleton Civil Service Act

• The Dawes Severalty Act

• The Seventeenth Amendment

• The Nineteenth Amendment

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6.12

The transformation to production as described above can best be attributed to

• Taylor’s scientific management

• The creation of trade unions

• The development of trusts and monopolies

• The elimination of child labor

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