Remediation Quiz

How did the spread of railroads after the Civil War contribute to the Second Industrial Revolution?

• Railroads led urban workers to migrate to rural farms.

• Railroads stimulated steamship travel along America's inland rivers.

• Railroads caused cotton and rice production to move to the Pacific Northwest.

• Railroads encouraged the growth of cities and the creation of a national market.

Which development completes the diagram?

• Second Industrial Revolution

• Decline in U.S. economic growth

• Decreasing numbers of monopolies

• Migration of industrial workers to farms

Which demand of American farmers was included in the 1892 platform of the Populist Party?

• unlimited coinage of silver

• lower income taxes on individuals

• unrestricted immigration into the United States

• an end to racial segregation in Southern states

What was the main economic challenge faced by American farmers in the late 19th century?

• Agricultural overproduction led to falling prices for their crops.

• The declining U.S. population led to a reduced demand for food.

• The arrival of European immigrants led to overcrowding on the Great Plains.

• Intensive farming had reduced the prairies and Great Plains to fields of dust.

What did American farmers in the late 1880s see as their two main problems?

• bad weather and new farming monopolies

• excessive taxation by state and federal governments

• the gold standard and excessive freight charges by railroads

• competition from European farmers and a falling demand for food

Which problem did Frederick Douglass expose in this excerpt?

• the need to preserve of the rule of law

• the survival of slave families in the South

• the existence of a nation that was half slave and half free

• the threat to American independence from foreign powers

What impact did the increasing demand for raw cotton from textile mills in the early 1800s have on the South?

• Southern plantation owners built their own textile mills.

• The number of enslaved people working on Southern cotton plantations increased.

• Farmers who worked their own land without slaves took an increasing share of production.

• Southern plantation owners began replacing their enslaved workers with more efficient free laborers.

Which U.S. government policy do these photographs illustrate?

• Compulsory education of Native Americans

• Political empowerment of Native Americans

• Assimilation of Native Americans

• Relocation of Native Americans

Which of the following claims does the cartoon accurately support?

• Big business and the federal government are mutually impactful on each.

• Big business wields too much power over the federal government.

• The federal government wields too much power over industry.

• The federal government has no impact over industry.

Which movement is described by the events on the timeline?

• Civil rights movement

• Abolitionist movement

• States rights movement

• Social Gospel movement