apush quiz

The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's

cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents

"Economically speaking, aggregated [accumulated] capital will be more..." The practices of big-business leaders in the late 1800s best reflect which of the following actions illustrated by the excerpt?

Big-business leaders used their influence to facilitate rapid economic growth.

Which of the following groups of people would have been most likely to oppose Taylor's management ideas?

Factory workers

Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?

It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.

Which of the following was true of the American labor movement in the late nineteenth century?

It was involved in a number of violent strikes.

Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American Federation of Labor in organizing labor in the late 1800s?

Its policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen

Which of the following contexts best explains the construction of transcontinental railroads in the late 1800s?

Large-scale industrial production brought business consolidation and the needed capital to support railroad construction.

"Every contract, combination in form of trust orotherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade orcommerce in any territory of the United States . . .is hereby declared illegal." The passage above was most effectively used forwhich purpose in the late nineteenth century?

Limiting the power of labor unions

Which of the following developments best explains changes in agricultural production in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s?

New systems of transportation integrated farming into national markets.

"The purpose of this article is too..." Which of the following can best be concluded about the late 1800s based on the situation in which the excerpt was produced?

People debated the best means for expanding educational opportunities.

"The [political] machine represented the dominant urban political institution..." Which of the following pieces of historical evidence would support the overall argument in the excerpt?

People of Irish descent in New York City registered to vote at a higher rate than their proportion of the population in the 1890s.

"Competition is a law of nature . . . and can no more be done away with than gravitation. . . . [I]f we do not like survival of the fittest, we have only one possible alternative, survival of the unfittest. The former is the law of civilization, the latter is the law of anti-civilization." The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?

Social Darwinism

"The [political] machine represented the dominant urban political institution..." Which of the following pieces of historical evidence would best modify the claim in the last paragraph of the excerpt?

Some Democratic political machines continued Republican fiscal policies that limited spending on patronage jobs.

"The [political] machine represented the dominant urban political institution..." Which of the following pieces of historical evidence would best modify the overall argument of the excerpt?

Some urban areas with large Irish populations did not develop Irish-dominated political machines.

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the following?

Strengthened the position of big business.

"Money is power, and you ought to be reasonablyambitious to have it. You ought because you can domore good with it than you could without it. Moneyprinted your Bible, money builds your churches. . . .The man who gets the largest salary can do the mostgood with the power that is furnished to him. Of coursehe can if his spirit be right to use it for what it is givento him. I say, then, you ought to have money." The quotation above is an example of

The Gospel of Wealth

Which of the following best explains a connection between the economic productivity of the United States in the mid-1800s and in the late 1800s?

The application of new technologies expanded large-scale industrial manufacturing.

"Economically speaking, aggregated [accumulated] capital will be more..." The excerpt best reflects which of the following economic developments in the late 1800s?

The consolidation of power over the economy by business leaders

"The purpose of this article is too..." The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments in the late 1800s?

The emergence of arguments that wealthy people had a moral obligation to help society

"Economically speaking, aggregated [accumulated] capital will be more..." The excerpt best reflects which of the following economic developments in the late 1800s?

The increase in wealth inequality in United States society

Taylor's ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly in response to which of the following developments in the United States?

The rise of industrial capitalism

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did which of the following?

They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support.

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth endorsed which of the following views?

Wealthy individuals have a duty to return their fortunes to society.

The "temporary unequal distribution of wealth" that Carnegie refers to in the excerpt resulted most directly from the

consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth was based on the belief that wealthy industrialists should use their wealth to

finance philanthropic endeavors

Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of business monopolies, courts initially used its provisions successfully against

labor unions

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

The cartoon of Boss Tweed above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century

municipal corruption

The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized

skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to

vertical integration