EOC Topic 2 Practice Test

What was one Northern objection to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The seizure of escaped African Americans was allowed in free states

• The migration of African Americans to cities was prohibited.

• The Underground Railroad system would shut down

• The Transcontinental Railroad route would change.

Read the information below and answer the following question.

• The Thirteenth Amendment is passed.

• The Fourteenth Amendment is passed.

• The Missouri Compromise is passed.

• The Compromise of 1850 is passed.

Which statement best describes the effect of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act on the United States before the Civil War?

• Economic competition increased between the North and the South.

• Westward expansion gave abolitionist groups less political power.

• New states opened larger markets for manufactured goods produced by slaves.

• Disputes about the status of slavery in new states fueled conflicts between the North and the South.

In the 1800s, the widespread use of the cotton gin in the South decreased the

• cost of producing cotton

• amount of cotton

• use of slaves to harvest cotton

• amount of profit made from cotton

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, urban immigrants generally supported local political machines that

• were usually supported by urban reformers

• provided essential services to the immigrants

• reminded immigrants of political practices in their homelands

• discouraged the new immigrants from participating in civic affairs

The muckraking journalists associated with the Progressive era were known primarily for their

• willingness to expose the corruption of U.S. society

• articles supporting the economic benefits of laissez-faire economics

• use of the media to advocate the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

• support for the formation of U.S. military alliances with European countries

The American Civil War decreased Europe's supply of cotton from the American South. What did the Europeans do to maintain the flow of this natural resource for their textile industries?

• European factory owners agreed to pay a higher price for American cotton.

• European factory owners supported abolition of slavery to end the Civil War

• European factory owners turned to Egypt and India as new sources of cotton

• European gov'ts intervened militarily to force the resumption of the trade in cotton

Why did Theodore Roosevelt build the Great White Fleet?

• to compete with the Russian navy

• to help him win the Nobel Peace Prize

• to protect U.S. trade interests in Japan

• to establish the U.S. as a naval power

During the mid to late 1800s, which major problem was more common for a farmer in the West than for a farmer living east of the Mississippi River?

• deflation

• unemployment

• high railroad rates

• rising interest rates

During the late 1800s, the defenders of Social Darwinism would most likely have supported

• labor unions

• progressive income tax

• laissez-faire capitalism

• environmental conservation