Midterm Review 1

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery

Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877.  These laws legalized segregation whites and blacks to use separate facilities. 

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

Which Supreme Court ruling held that racial segregation is O.K. in America so long as the separated facilities are of equal quality?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• King v. Alabama

• Roe v. Wade

Many people who immigrated to the United States during the Gilded Age moved to

• farming communities, where they established their own farms
• rural Southern areas, where they opened businesses
• Western areas, where they managed cattle ranches
• urban areas, where they worked in factories

What was one major effect of industrialization on American society?

• More people received free higher education
• More people received health care and benefits
• More people took up family farming
• More people moved to urban areas

The mechanization of agriculture in the United States led directly to

• an increase in production

• less dependence on railroads by farmers

• fewer agricultural exports

• the decreasing size of the average farm

According to the theory of laissez-faire, the economy functions best when the government

• subsidizes business so that it can compete worldwide

• regulated business for the good of the majority

• owns major industries

• does not interfere with business

The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe

• dissatisfied workers who went on strike
• Northerners who went South following the Civil War
• investigative journalists who exposed societal problems
• women who supported the Prohibition movement

Method of production invented by Henry Ford in which workers add parts to a product as it moves along a belt.

• assembly line
• mass production
• Industry
• monopoly