Midterm 1 Review

__________________is when a company buys out or merges with other companies that sell similar products or services.

• Trust

• Monopoly

• Horizontal Integration

• Vertical Integration

Due to ________________people who apply for government jobs must pass a competitive written examination.

• Sherman Anti-trust Act

• Pendleton Civil Service Act

• Pacific Railway Act

• Homestead Act

This law allowed the federal government to break up lands, sell the surplus to new settlers, and weakened the American Indian tribal identity through the process of assimilation.

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railway Act

• Dawes Act

• Pendleton Civil Service Act

Method used by steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie in which he owned all the steps necessary to make and process steel. (Ex: bread + meat+ cheese + mayo=sandwich).

• Trust

• Monopoly

• Horizontal Integration

• Vertical Integration

"This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth" is a famous quote from Andrew Carnegie's...

• Gospel of Wealth

• Cross of Gold

• Social Gospel

• Social Darwinism

The use of federal troops to break up a railroad strike by President Grover Cleveland is an example of how

• The government sided with striking workers

• The government ignored labor union strikes and riots

• Businesses were willing to collective bargaining

• The government used their authority to protect businesses

Native born American citizens who wanted to ban or limit immigration are called

• Nativists

• Optimists

• Pessimists

• Migrants

This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld Jim Crow laws or legalized segregation

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Schenck v. United States

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Which of the following characteristics DO NOT describe the "new immigrants"?

• From Southern and Eastern Europe

• Uneducated and Unskilled

• Catholic and Jewish

• Could speak fluent English

Corrupt city government officials who were headed by "Bosses" and traded favors for votes were called

• Political Machines

• Migrant Workers

• Labor Unions

• Grangers