History Study T or F

Economies of scale occur when the cost of manufacturing is increased by producing goods quickly and in large quantities.

• False

• True

The Pullman Strike was a victory for railroad unions across the country and forced big businesses in America to recognize the power of U.S. workers.

• True

• False

Big businesses countered the claim that industrialists built large companies that limited competition and sometimes raised prices by saying that big companies produced goods more efficiently and therefor consumers could buy them at lower prices, which benefitted everyone.

• True

• False

Both the North and the South had to act quickly to raise money for the war.  In addition to controlling the national treasury, the Union could expect continued revenue from tariffs - taxes on imported goods.

• True

• False

Because ships at the time were relatively primitive, naval warfare was not an integral part of the North's victory over the South.

• True

• False

The invention of barbed wire made it possible to fence in huge tracts of land on the treeless plains, which contributed to the demise of the open range.

• False

• True

Democrats favored a high tariff, arguing that it would allow American industries to grow and promote jobs in manufacturing.

• False

• True

The Homestead Act allotted to each head of household 160 acres of reservation land for farming, single adults received 80 acres, and 40 acres were given to children.  Whatever was left over would be sold to settlers.

• True

• False

Women like feminist Jane Addams and Representative Jeanette Rankin were influential women who opposed US involvement in WWI.

• True

• False

Self-determination means the right of people to choose their own government

• False

• True