APUSH Ch. 17 Review

What was a major effect of corporate advertising on sports like football and baseball?

• It led to the decline of these sports.

• It turned them into major money-making businesses.

• It had no effect on these sports.

• It made them less popular.

How did Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection influence American culture in the late-nineteenth century?

• It led to the abolition of slavery.

• It influenced sociology, eugenics, and art.

• It resulted in the Industrial Revolution.

• It promoted the use of steam engines.

What was a popular pursuit for men and women of all classes during industrialization?

• Visiting art galleries.

• Attending operas.

• Visiting the wilderness and national parks.

• Participating in political rallies.

What social issues did women confront through their activism?

• Environmental pollution.

• Hunger, unemployment, and alcoholism.

• Technological advancements.

• Space exploration.

What amendment granted women the right to vote?

• The Fifteenth Amendment.

• The Nineteenth Amendment.

• The Twenty-first Amendment.

• The Twenty-sixth Amendment.

What was the impact of the Nineteenth Amendment?

• It abolished slavery.

• It granted women the right to vote.

• It ended the Civil War.

• It established the federal income tax.

What theory's emergence prompted a backlash from traditional forces during the Reconstruction era?

• Theory of Relativity

• Theory of Evolution

• Quantum Theory

• Germ Theory

What ideal did middle-class Americans celebrate before the Civil War?

• Industrialization

• Domesticity

• Urbanization

• Militarism

The ideas in this passage most directly led to controversies in the 1880s and 1890s over

• increasing numbers of international migrants.

• business efforts to secure international markets.

• wages and working conditions.

• the moral obligations of business leaders to improve society.

Which of the following late eighteenth century ideas show continuity with the ideas described in the passage?

• Support for mercantilism by the British government

• Belief in the natural rights of all citizens

• Argument for laissez-faire economics by Adam Smith

• Support for Protestant Evangelism