EOC Review - US History

The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to:

• prevent them from voting

• limit their access to public facilities

• block their educational opportunities

• deny them economic advancement

The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad are most closely associated with the

• rise of organized labor

• building of the Erie Canal

• northern migration of African Americans

• decline of the Plains Indians

Many Southern states tried to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction by

• adopting federal laws mandating segregation

• enacting Jim Crow laws

• abolishing the Southern sharecropping system

• securing passage of new amendments to the US Constitution

Until the early 20th century, few restrictions on immigration to the US existed primarily because

• industry needed an increasing supply of labor

• immigration totals had always been relatively low

• labor unions had always favored unrestricted immigration

• the Supreme Court had ruled that Congress could not restrict immigration

In the late 1800s, how did railroad monopolies create economic hardships for farmers?

• by claiming productive land for business leaders to develop

• by charging high prices to ship agricultural goods to market

• by separating farmers from profitable markets in western cities

• by isolating farmers from technological developments in eastern cities

In 1862, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway ACt were passed primarily to

• achieve Northern victory in the Civil War

• develop the Midwest and western parts of the country

• improve the lives of freed slaves

• expand overseas markets to Asia and Europe

Which technologies helped settlers establish farms on the Great Plains?

• repeating rifle, wooden sluices, electric light bulb

• sod houses, sheep shearers, wood carders

• telegraph, railroad, creation of Yellowstone National Park

• steel plow, windmill, barbed wire, reaper

During the early 1800s, which factor contributed the most to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• a restriction on European immigration

• the end of the slave labor system

• an abundance of natural resources

• the availability of electricity

A major purpose of the Progressive Movement (1900-1917) was to

• stimulate the economy

• support government control of factory production

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society

Which of the following contributed to the immense industrial boom known as the Second Industrial Revolution?

• bankruptcy of farms, populist movement, loss of farming lands

• abundance of natural resources, government support of businesses, increase in urban population

• cheap city buildings, women's movements, great migration

• new public education system, discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, formation of trusts