Fall 2024 3rd Block Unit 4 Missed Qs

Which of the following is the best definition of the Convict Lease System?

• State governments rented out prisoners to private companies

• Federal prisons paid felons to build infrastructure projects.

• State government leaders leased out prison property to private companies.

• Convicted murderers were sent to uninhabited islands along the Atlantic Coast.

Based on the picture above, what was the MOST likely purpose of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

• To limit private investment opportunities

• To promote financial stability

• To reduce competition among states

• To support stock speculation

Which statement about President Theodore Roosevelt is BEST supported by the image above? 

• Conservatism was a major concern for President Roosevelt.

• President Roosevelt participated in big-game hunting.

• Preservation of Native American land rights was a priority for President Roosevelt.

• President Roosevelt supported the reclamation of land for agricultural use.

Which of the following best explains the change that occurred as a result of Populist and Progressive reforms?

• The Federal government shifted away from laissez-faire capitalism.

• Robber Barons were free to continue monopolistic practices.

• Railroads were allowed more freedom to regulate their own rates.

• Farmers and factory workers were granted the vote out West.

Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican Party by running as a third party candidate in the Election of 1912. How did this impact Progressive reform moving forward?

• The role of the federal government continued to decrease in the 1900s returning to Laissez-faire policies.

• The role of the federal government continued to increase in the 1900s leading to economic and social reforms.

• The Progressive Era abruptly ended with Woodrow Wilson's Democratic Party victory.

• The Progressive Era shifted the United States away from isolationism and towards expansionism.

What did the Morrill Land Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common?

• They provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands.

• They discriminated against African American families.

• They forced Native Americans onto reservations.

• They enabled railroad companies to develop the land near their tracks.

“All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall-door that is forever slamming, and from the windows of dark bedrooms that in turn receive from the stairs their sole supply of the elements God meant to be free. . . . The sinks are in the hallway, that all the tenants may have access—and all be poisoned alike by their summer stenches. . . . When the summer heats come with their suffering they have a meaning more terrible than words can tell. . . . This gap between dingy brick-walls is the yard. That strip of smoke-colored sky up there is the heaven of these people. . . . A  hundred thousand people lived in . . . tenements in New York last year.”

- Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890 

By the 1910s, the conditions described in the excerpt were most addressed by

• Government unemployment programs 

• Government employment programs 

• Efforts of middle-class reformers

• Consolidation of large corporations

What did the process described above lead to?

• The peaceful resolution of territorial disputes with Native Americans.

• The westward migration of European immigrants looking for farming opportunities.

• The federal regulation of agricultural production and distribution.

• A decline in immigration to industrial urban areas.