AMH 2020 Final Exam Questions (Quiz 2)

What idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late nineteenth century?

Progress is the result of competition where the strong survived and the weak died out.

How did live-in servants change households in the North by 1870?

They enabled middle-class white women to explore opportunities outside the home.

How did business expansion and consolidation affect the social structure in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

A new class of white male salaried managers emerged.

What did the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act have in common?

Both testified to the nation's growing willingness to use federal measures to intervene in big business on behalf of the public interest.

What was the purpose of vertical integration, which was pioneered by Andrew Carnegie in the late nineteenth century?

It placed all aspects of the business, from mining raw materials to marketing and transporting finished products, under the control of the chief operating officer.

According to American businessmen who subscribed to the economic theory of laissez-faire, what was the role of the government in the economy?

It should not interfere in economic affairs except to protect private property.

Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?

They lived in cities because jobs were available there and because they did not have the money to buy land.

[T]he police and the legally-constituted authorities showed plainly where their sympathies were, for in no case reported through the daily papers does there appear the arrest, trial and conviction of one of the mob for any of the brutalities which occurred. The ringleaders of the mob were at no time disguised. Men were chased, beaten and killed by white brutes, who boasted of their crimes, and the murderers still walk the streets of New Orleans, well known and absolutely exempt from prosecution. Not only were they exempt from prosecution by the police while the town was in the hands of the mob, but even now that law and order is supposed to resume control, these men, well known, are not now, nor ever will be, called to account for the unspeakable brutalities of that terrible week." How did Wells portray the role of law enforcement?

They were sympathetic to the white mob.

Carnegie Steel achieved the tremendous productivity that Andrew Carnegie insisted on

by forcing employees to work long hours under extremely dangerous conditions for low pay.

Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s

for economic opportunities and safety.