unit 6 mcq

Which of the following is one important continuity in urban life in the United States throughout the nineteenth century?

Immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce.

A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

Jane Addams

The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?

Social Darwinism

Settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods?

The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

Access to natural resources for businesses changed from the mid-1800s to the late 1800s most directly as a result of which of the following factors?

The expansion of communication systems such as the electric telegraph

The image was created most directly in response to the

consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

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 describes a similarity between Washington's and Pillow's arguments in the excerpts?

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

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.

During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?

Educated middle-class women

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

European farms and villages

Which of the following arguments did some late-nineteenth-century leaders use to justify the situation depicted in the image?

Evolutionary principles determined that people succeeded based on their merits.

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

Factory workers

Which of the following was a primary cause of the developments depicted on the map?

Federal subsidies encouraged the growth of infrastructure.

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

The passage above was most effectively used for which purpose in the late nineteenth century?

Limiting the power of labor unions

The union membership card pictured above is designed to accomplish which of the following?

Link union membership with patriotic and religious images

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

Midwest and Northeast

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 arrived with cultural practices similar to those of Americans than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.

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

Nativists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants.

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

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 best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?

Restrictive congressional legislation

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?

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

Pratt's arguments in the excerpt in support of his school for American Indians had most in common with the arguments of which of the following groups?

Some social reformers in the later 1800s who founded settlement houses for newly arrived immigrants

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.

Which of the following labor organizations endorsed the philosophy of "bread and butter" unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved work conditions?

The American Federation of Labor

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.

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 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

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?

The transformation of the United States into an industrial society

Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women.

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

cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

The conditions described in the excerpt most directly contributed to the

growth of an organized labor movement

The developments depicted on the map most directly contributed to the

heightening of nativist feelings against foreign-born workers in the West

Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to

immigrants

Women working in settlement houses such as Hull House initially sought to help

immigrants adapt to American customs and language

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

Settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

organizing women workers into labor unions

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

relied on the use of power-driven machinery

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

skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

The situation depicted in the image contributed most immediately to

the organization of new labor unions to confront managerial power

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

vertical integration