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Unit 2 Review for American History 2
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1
What kind of monopoly is formed by creating one large company out of multiple companies?
vertical integration
trust
horizontal integration
merger
2
What kind of tax protected American businesses from foreign competition?
excise tax
luxury tax
graft
tariff
3
What do we call it when a business tells other businesses not to hire a certain employee?
blackout
blacklist
arbitration
employment ban
4
Who was the leader of the Standard Oil Company?
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
5
Who was the major banking leader in the nation?
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
6
What policy has the government not interfering in people’s lives?
merit system
graft
laissez-faire
Pendleton Act
7
What was the major issue in federal politics between 1884 and 1896?
Communism
tariffs
unemployment
voting rights
8
The late 19th century saw an increase in "new immigration" to the US from what areas?
northern Europe and Asia
northern and western Europe
Asia and Australia
southern and eastern Europe
9
What large American city was nearly destroyed by fire in 1871?
Chicago
New York City
Charlotte
Los Angeles
10
What were the cramped, poorly built apartment buildings of the cities called?
dormitories
tenements
ethnic neighborhoods
settlement houses
11
What was Jacob Riis’s book,
How the Other Half Lives
, about?
ethnic neighborhoods
life in the slums
robber barons
industrialization
12
What are replacement workers during a strike called?
moles
temps
scabs
subs
13
What law said that government officials should be hired based on their qualifications?
Pendleton Act
Dawes Act
Merit Act
Tweed Act
14
What type of organization fights for better working conditions?
fraternal organization
labor union
settlement house
labor strike
15
What kind of scandal was Credit Mobilier?
assassination
railroad scandal
labor dispute
oil scandal
16
What group did the US government ban from further immigration in 1882?
Chinese
Irish
Greeks
Italians
17
What famous cartoonist helped to expose the corruption of the machine?
James Garfield
William Tweed
Thomas Nast
Jim Davis
18
What do we call it when a business controls other companies that contribute to that industry?
merger
vertical integration
trust
horizontal integration
19
Who was the leader of the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
20
Which industry helped bring about standardized time zones?
textile
oil
railroad
steel
21
What type of business controls the supply of a product?
graft
corporation
monopoly
tenement
22
Who invented the telephone?
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
23
What do we call a town established by a business with houses, stores, etc. for its workers?
settlement houses
labor camp
worker complex
company town
24
What do we call it when a business refuses to let its employees come to work during a dispute?
graft
blacklist
lockout
strike
25
What do we call it when a business controls other companies of the same type?
vertical integration
merger
horizontal integration
trust
26
Who was the nation's leading railroad owner?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
27
What kind of monopoly is formed by the leaders of several businesses acting as one?
trust
merger
horizontal integration
vertical integration
28
Who perfected the incandescent light bulb and the phonograph?
Nikola Tesla
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
29
What do we call a political party that dominates a city and controls activity there?
plutocracy
tariff
political machine
monopoly
30
Who is the only American president to ever serve two non-consecutive terms?
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
31
What term is used to describe the action of stealing money from the government?
graft
kickbacks
counterfeiting
pyramid scheme
32
Who did political machines provide services for in exchange for votes?
the Federal government
labor unions
big business
urban poor
33
Who started Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago?
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis
John D. Rockefeller
James Garfield
34
What famous political machine controlled New York City?
the Tweed Ring
Boss Hogg
the Robber Barons
the Mafia
35
What happened at Haymarket Square that hurt the goal of unions?
blackout
violence
arbitration
lockout