6.7-6.9 APUSH questions

Which of the following describes a difference between Washington’s and Pillow’s arguments in the excerpts?

• Washington argues in favor of bringing Chinese immigrants into the United States, while Pillow argues in favor of a ban on allowing any Chinese immigration.

• Washington asserts that there should be biracial cooperation on economic development, while Pillow asserts that African Americans should be excluded from the southern economy.

• Pillow advocates against labor strikes by southern agricultural workers, while Washington advocates that African American agricultural workers should strike until immigration is halted.

• Pillow proposes that immigrant laborers should be recruited to work in agriculture, while Washington proposes that African Americans should be recruited instead.

Which of the following describes a similarity between Washington’s and Pillow’s arguments in the excerpts?

• Both hold that plantation owners exhibit hostility toward formerly enslaved laborers.

• Both argue that hiring immigrant workers would be cheaper than hiring native-born workers.

• Both believe that southern progress and prosperity depend on addressing a question of labor.

• Both assert that encouraging industrialization is essential to creating new jobs for southern workers.

Based on their claims in the excerpts, Washington and Pillow would most likely have taken different positions on which of the following social questions in the 1800s?

• Can African Americans continue to be employed in agricultural work?

• Should immigrants be used to diversify the southern industrial labor force?

• Can wealthy plantation owners promote progress in the South?

• Should the southern economy abandon agricultural production?

Which of the following was a difference between the immigration from 1865 to 1895 depicted in the graph and immigration in the 1840s and 1850s?

• More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s sought factory work than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.

• More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s arrived with cultural practices similar to those of Americans than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.

• Immigration was a main source of agricultural labor in the Southern states during the 1840s and 1850s, but it was not between 1865 and 1895.

• Immigration from China was greater than immigration from central Europe in the 1840s and 1850s as compared to the period between 1865 and 1895.

Which of the following was a response to both immigration in the 1850s and the immigration depicted in the graph?

• Immigrants were provided social support in settlement houses.

• Immigrants were restricted from gaining the right to vote in elections.

• Nativists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants.

• Reformers helped immigrants to maintain their traditional cultures.

  
  

Which of the following was a long-term development that contributed to the change in Chinese immigration depicted in the graph between 1875 and 1885 ?

• Chinese laborers competed with White laborers for jobs and mineral wealth during the 1850s and 1860s.

• Chinese recruits were used to replace White soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War.

• Chinese immigrants filled most of the factory jobs created during the market revolution.

• Chinese farmers settled American Indian lands taken by the United States in the 1830s and 1840s.

1. This excerpt was written to most directly support which of the following?

• (A) Formation of trusts

• (B) The right to organize and bargain collectively

• (C) The antitrust movement

• (D) Employee ownership of business

2. Which of the following best explains why Gompers thought that “organizations of the toiling masses are essential both to prevent the deterioration and to secure an improvement in the condition of the wage earners”?

• (A) The school of laissez-faire economics

• (B) The rise of the captains of industry

• (C) The concentration of corporate wealth and power

• (D) The belief in individualism and self-reliance

3. The ideas expressed in this excerpt are most closely allied with

• (A) the theory of wages by David Ricardo

• (B) the practice of horizontal integration

• (C) the establishment of Pullman’s company town for workers

• (D) the rise of the American Federation of Labor

1. In the graph above, the group of immigrants who would be considered “new” immigrants were those from

• (A) northern and western Europe

• (B) southern and eastern Europe

• (C) Latin America

• (D) Asia