APUSH Unit 5

Which idea would Sumner most likely support?

Laissez-faire

During the late 19th century, which of the following groups most benefited from the poverty described by Riis?

Political machines

Which of the following developments would be most consistent with the beliefs expressed in the excerpt?

Consolidation of wealth by an elite

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.

Which individual would be most likely to argue that the government should not intervene to improve the tenements?

Herbert Spencer

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities.

In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry?

fur trading

The Rocky Mountain School of painting

helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West.

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities

included a new federal environmental regulatory agency.

The economic reasoning behind the Ocala Platform assumes that

increasing the money supply would increase prices and incomes

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories

laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

organize industrial production into many simple tasks

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

scientific inquiry.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth

the rich had great responsibilities to society

According to the author, what has most contributed to the need for wage earners to organize?

The concentration of corporate wealth and power

The Panic of 1893

triggered the nation's most severe depression up to that point.

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

was used by the federal government against labor unions.

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism

In the late nineteenth century, the western agricultural economy

saw the railroad become the most important factor in its development.

The Dawes Act of 1887

was viewed by the U.S. government as a plan to save the Indians.

The Ocala Platform proved an important link between which of the following groups?

Farmer organizations and the Populist movement

The excerpt was written to most directly support which of the following?

Formation of trusts

Which of the following statements regarding Coney Island is FALSE?

The park developed a reputation for wholesome family attractions.

The "Cross of Gold" speech was given in 1896 by

William Jennings Bryan

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege

American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from

foreign crop failures.

During the late nineteenth century, all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods EXCEPT the

formation of credit card companies.

Which phrase best summarizes what Riis considers the cause of the problems he sees?

"In the tenements all the influences make for evil"

Which of the following was most closely allied to the sentiments in the excerpt?

American Federation of Labor

The ideas expressed in this excerpt most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species

Which of the following most likely explains the significant reduction of immigration during the 1870s and 1890s to the United States?

Financial panics and depressions

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter.

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

reduce the costs of city services.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists

In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America

saw charitable organizations try to limit aid to only those deemed "deserving poor."

The Ocala Platform resulted from a protest movement that primarily involved

small farmers

In the chart above, the "new immigrants" include those who arrived in the United States from

southern and eastern Europe

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT

the automobile industry