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
