Questions #6
The Seneca Falls Convention was important because it?
A. Nominated candidates who support women's rights
B. Instituted specific reforms for women's rights
C. Was the first Women's Rights Convention in the United States
D. Demanded changes to women's attire
C. Was the first Women's Rights Convention in the United States
How did the federal government support employers during time of labor unrest?
A. Called on Pinkertons to stop Strikes
B. Denied Unions recognitions a legally protected group
C. Imprisoned Eugene Debs and other leaders
D. Made company towns illegal
B. Denied Unions recognition as a legally protected group
Which of the following helped Fuel economic growth by encouraging people to buy American Goods?
A. Monopolies
B Patents
C. Protective Tariffs
D. Laissez Fair
Protective Tariffs C
The Federal government formed the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee?
A. Labor Union Activity
B. Interstate communications
C. Patent Awards
D. Railroad operations across the nation
D. Railroad operations across the nation
Zoning Laws were designed primarily to?
A. Encouraged growth of heavy Industry
B. Separate functions within a city
C. Create immigrant Ghettos
D. Protect water from pollution
B. Separate functions within a city
Which of the following was the condition placed on American settlers moving to Texas?
A. Settlers must worship Roamn Catholics
B. Anglo-Texans must become Mexican citizens
C. Slavery, as banned by the Mexican Const. Must not be practice
D. All of the Above
D. All of the Above
During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan?
A. Tried to pass laws to limit rights of freed people
B. Disbanded by the 15th amendment
C. Used Violence to prevent Freed people from voting
D. Supported passages of the Enforcement Act
C. Used Violence to prevent Freed people from voting
Which Innovention extended the number of hours in a day that Americans could work?
A. Bessemer Process
B. Telegraph Technolgy
C. Refrigeration
D. Electricity
D. Electricity
Traditionally, immigrants had to come America for economic opportunity and?
A. Social Equality
B. Religious Freedom
C. Superior education
D. Railroad operations across the nation
B. Religious Freedom
How did mass culture signify a change in American life?
a. A class trendsetters emerged from middle class
b. Americans became more alike in their purchasing
C. Middle class strove to create a completely independent ID
D. Rich and poor people used exact same goods
Americans became more alike in their purchasing B
Reformers worked to change schools by making them more?
A. Independent of state rules
B. Accessible to everyone
C. Demanding of their students
D. Economical in their operation
B. Accessible to everyone
Teh Sherman Antitrust Act imposed limitations upon which group?
A. Farmers
B. Congress
C. Large Corporations
D. Small-Business owners
C. Large Corporations
Steel changed people's lives by making possible the
A. Invention of Radio
B. Construction of Skyscrapers
C. Develpment of Electricity
D. Establishment of Time Zones
B. Construction of skyscrapers
Most new immigrants lived in cities?
A. To be close to Industrial Jobs
B. To meet new Americans
C. To abandon their traditions
D. Because cities were welcoming
A. To be close to Industrial jobs
Consumption patterns were most influenced by
A. Advertising
B Transportation
C. New Educational theories
D. Special interest newspapers
Advertising A
In the 1820's, New Mexico, Texas and California attracted expansionists because?
A. The US Gov had influence over Spain
B. They were rich in resources and thinly settled.
C. The Mex Gov did not want to developed provinces
D. Congress passed new Leg called Manifest Destiny
B. They were rich in resources and thinly settled.
What did the Enforcement Act of 1870 make illegal?
A. Segregation of Public Schools
B. The Share-Cropping system
C. Tax-Supported public school, system
D The use of force or Coercion to prevent citizens from voting
D. The use of force or Coercion to prevent citizens from voting
Capitalism Fueled industrialization by?
A. Requiring inventors to file patents
B. Encouraging entrepreneurs to establish business
C. Giving the country natural resources
D. Ensuring that all workers received high wages
B. Encouraging entrepreneurs to establish businesses?
Which of these immigrants would have been least likely to encounter prejudice?
A. Jew
B. Catholic
C. A Protestant
D. An African American
C. A protestant
What was one of the dangers living in a tenement?
A. Tenements were owned by landlords who lived far away
b. Families had to live within walking distance of factories
C. Tenants had few windows and poor sanitation conditions
Tenements housed more than 1 family in the same apartment
C. Tenants had few windows and poor sanitation conditions
Why was a plan for Reconstruction of the South needed?
A. Lincoln Admin did not want to readmit the Confederate States to the Union
B. Many new citizens had joined the nation during the war
C. The Constitution provided no guidance on session or readmission of states.
D. Southern economy had grown, and northern states wanted to share prosperity
C. The Constitution provided no guidance on session or readmission of states.
As farms became mechanized?
A. Immigrants bought more lands
B. More people became farmers
C. Farmers moved to Urban Areas
D. Farm workers became rural entrepreneurs
C. Farmers moved to Urban Areas.
Cartels. Monopiles, trusts and horizontal and vertical integration all share the goal of?
A. Driving up costs
B. Raising wages
C. Increasing Profits
D. Combining resources
C. Increasing Profits
Which of these factors pulled immigrants to the United States?
A. Lack of Food
B. Religious Prosecution
C. Poor economic conditions
D. Potential employment
D. Potential Employment
Which of the following accurately describes the effects of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments on the lives of southerners?
a. They had little effect on southerners
b. Black southerners were forbidden to serve as elected officials
c. white southerners celebrated black southerner's new rights
D. Black southerners had more political and economic freedom.
D. Black southerners had more political and economic freedom.