Unit 6 Review

The Granger movement was organized to promote the interest of

• farmers

• factory workers

• suffragists

Which factor directly contributed to the growth of the steel industry?

• government regulation of the industry

• new production techniques that increased efficiency

• court decisions that allowed collective bargaining

Overcrowding, high crime rate and poor sanitation were a direct result of

• muckrakers' influence

• westward migration

• rapid urbanization

Business leaders formed trusts to

• eliminate competition

• improve worker productivity

• establish overseas factories

Which resulted from the laissez-faire (hands-off) economic policies followed by the Federal Government?

• Government regulation of prices in the oil and steel industries benefited consumers.

• Trusts and monopolies were created by business owners to maintain control of the market.

• Lower tariffs stimulated foreign trade.

The creation of the Standard Oil Trust by John D. Rockefeller intended to

• increase competition among oil companies

• protect small, oil firms

• control prices and practices in the oil refining business

The use of child labor in the United States factories were opposed by

• labor unions

• nativists

• parents

The theory of Social Darwinism was often used to justify the

• the formation of business monopolies

• the creation of the Ku Klux Klan

• use of strikes by labor unions

Which political party introduced the following reforms:

-Free and unlimited coinage of silver

-Government ownership of railroads

-Graduated income tax

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Populist Party in 1892

Where did most of the immigrants to the United States settle?

• plantations in the South

• farming regions of the Great Plains

• urban centers of the Northeast