VA US History Final Review

What is a Laissez-Faire economy?

• An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that works best when there is very little involvement by the U.S. government
• An economy that is controlled by another country

In a laissez-faire economy, the government —

• regulates business

• opposes business

• gives aid to business

• keeps out of the affairs of business

What law offered free land in the west to anyone who would sign on and cultivate the land for a minimum of five years?

• Freedman’s Act

• Headright Act

• Tenant Farming Act

• Homestead Act

Which of the following women plated a key role in urging the federal government to pass anti-lynching laws?

• Lucretia Mott

• Ida B. Wells

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

The Open Door Policy changed America's interests in what way?

• Allowed the US to let anyone start a company.

• Allowed other nations to grow and develop business opportunities in America

• Extend trade with China to the US as well as Europe and Japan

• Encouraged immigration from all areas of the world.

What tragedy gave more urgency to arguments that women needed the right to vote?

• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The sinking of the Luistania
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
• Wilmington Race Riot

Which Progressive Era movement would best characterize this image?

• Women's Suffrage

• Labor Relations

• Abstinence

• Jim Crow Laws

The principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice.

Which organization would most likely be described in this mission statement?

• American Civil Liberties Union

• Anti-Defamation League

• Ku Klux Klan

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Look at the image & then identify who invented this process. 

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Bessemer

• George Pullman

Which law prevents any business structure from creating a monopoly on their industry?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Haymarket Act

• Pullman Act

• Smoot-Harley Act