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WorksheetsAPUSH Unit 6
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 37mins
What term is commonly used in reference to those opposed to immigrant workers?
socialism
nativism
machine politics
populism
What is the term used to describe the housing conditions of urban workers
Tenement housing
Settlement housing
Hull House
tenant farm
This is the term for the process of adjusting to the culture and government of the United States.
Assimilation
Nativism
Americanism
Cultivism
What was the term commonly used to describe Capitalists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
Nativists
Muckrakers
Benevolent barons
Robber barons
Which of these refers to the economic system whereby consumers get an array of options to choose from and prices fluctuate based on market demand?
free-enterprise
planned economy
mercantilism
colonialism
In the late 19th Century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to _______________.
explain the differences in income between the rich and the poor
urge Congress to end immigration
encourage the passage of compulsory education laws
support the growth of new political parties
What is the term for a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age)?
credit mobilier
corrected democracy
exchequer
political machine
The key idea in the excerpt is that Grady believes
the Civil War damaged the southern economy
former Confederate soldiers deserved better treatment
the secession of the Confederacy was justified
the South needed to industrialize
Which of the following best demonstrates Henry Grady's vision for the South?
Birmingham, Alabama, became one of the nation's leading steel producers
Former slaves achieved semi-independence as tenant farmers
Northern investors controlled three-quarters of southern railroads
The southern economy remained mainly tied to agriculture
The economic reasoning behind the Ocala Platform assumes that
federal income taxes fell mainly on average working Americans
large banks had formed a monopoly to lower interest rates
high tariffs had caused the rise in land prices
increasing the money supply would increase prices and incomes
The Ocala Platform proved an important link between which of the following groups?
Radical Republicans and Reconstruction
Farmer organizations and the Populist movement
Harrison Republicans and Cleveland Democrats
Rural and urban Progressive reformers
the ideas expressed in this excerpt most clearly sow the influence of which of the following?
John Locke's Second Treatise of Government
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species
which of the following developments would be most consistent with the beliefs expressed in the excerpt
Consolidation of wealth by an elite
Expansion of rights for women
Passage of anti-trust legislation
Spread of organized labor
Which of the following groups would most likely support the sentiments behind this cartoon?
Proponents of Social Darwinism
Proponents of anti-monopoly legislation
Proponents of organizing unskilled workers
Proponents of the Interstate Commerce Commission
The kind of sentiments in the cartoon above contributed most directly to which of the following?
The sale of Standard Oil to J. P. Morgan for $900 million
The breakup of Standard Oil into competing oil companies
The replacement of kerosene lamps with the incandescent lights
The rise of the American Federation of Labor
In the Chart above, the "new immigrants" include those who arrived in the U.S from
Northern and western europe
southern and eastern europe
latin america
asia
Voters demanded patronage reform in politics after
President James Garfield was assassinated
The Mugwumps sided with the opposing party
the Greenback Party won mid-year elections in 1878
Grover Cleveland threatened Republican dominance
Which of the following would the author, as a critic of the politics of the era, most likely oppose?
Laws limiting the number of terms one person could serve in an elective office
Rules reducing the number of patronage jobs controlled by politicians
Court decisions allowing unlimited campaign contributions by wealthy donors
Prosecutions of corruption in urban political parties and among political bosses
Which court case established the legal precent of "separate but equal?"
Worcester v. Georgia
Lochner v. New York
Plessy v. Ferguson
McCulloch v. Maryland
This African American man believed that blacks should demand full and immediate equality.
Emmit Til
George Washington
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. De Bois
The “Atlanta Compromise” is the name given to the
political concessions southern White politicians made to African Americans in order to win their support
against northerners
southern agreement to supply raw materials to the North and West in exchange for manufactured products
political deal made by northern Republicans and southern Democrats to pass legislation favoring the gold
standard
proposal that African Americans emphasize making economic progress over the quest for political and social
equality
Eager settlers who claimed the best land in Oklahoma in 1889 after government owned land was opened to be settled by the public.
nomadic
transcontinental
sooners
vaqueros
The Party that attempted to create a coalition alongside democrats that also were strong advocates for workers' rights went by what name?
Know-Nothings
Redeemers
Populists
Dixiecrats
Who was the populist candidate who ran in the 1896 election?
Eugene Debs
William McKinley
Henry Cabot Lodge
William Jennings Bryan
At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies and processes of raw materials and shipping led to
Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
It led to federal control of the railroads.
It forced businesses to adopt pooling agreements.
It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.
It quickly limited the number of mergers taking place.
Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
They were socialists.
They were federal troops.
They were part of management.
They were workers used to break strikes.
