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APUSH Period 6: 1865-1898
APUSH Period 6: 1865-1898
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1
The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to...
Economic growth and the expansion of Asian markets
Assimilation of Mexican Americans into society as equals
Hostility between the government and big business
Increased sectional tension
2
The__Amendment was helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state government
Sixteenth
Fourteenth
Thirteenth
Fifteenth
3
The rise of big business was fostered by all of the following during the Gilded Age EXCEPT...
Plentiful natural resources
Imposed transportation systems that opened new resources and markets
A growing immigrant labor force
The strict laissed-faire policy of the federal government
4
Among the following, the least likely to migrate to the cattle and farming frontier were...
Western city dwellers
Eastern city dwellers
Rural area dwellers
Suburb area dwellers
5
The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was...
Big cities
Rural areas
all of the above
At home life
6
How did Black Codes affect African Americans?
all of the above
Allowed the freedom of slaves, but only under certain conditions.
They denied their free choice in employment & outlawed interracial marriage
Created more segregated areas such as public facilities.
7
By 1866, most freed slaves were working on plantations of their former masters. What were they called?
Sharecroppers
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Tenant Farmers
8
Which one of the following was
not
among influential Populist leaders?
Eugene C. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
Andrew Carnegie
W. E. B. DuBois
9
The expansion of railroads to the West Coast led to the...
First American Industrial Revolution in the Northeast
Admission of Californian as a free state
Realization that private funding alone should build America's railroads
Destruction of American Indian habits
10
How did railroad companies encourage immigration?
They paid high wages to workers who would emigrate from their home
They ran advertising campaigns in Europe for cheap railroad lands in the US
They lobbied the federal governments to overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act
They offered free homesteads to those who would settle along rail lines
11
Andrew Carnegie reflects which of the following business models of the Gilded Age?
Laissez-faire economics
Vertical Integration
Conspicuous consumption
Social Darwinism
12
During which presidency were the policies of Reconstruction continued due to the murder of his predecessor?
James Buchanan's
Abraham Lincoln's
Andrew Johnson's
Ulysess S. Grant's
13
Which of the following generals surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia on April 9th, 1865?
General Ulysses S. Grant
General William T. Sherman
General Robert E. Lee
General Stonewall Jackson
14
Immigrants tended to settle...
On the West Coast
In coastal cities in the South
In Industrial cities
In rural areas of the North
15
What is the Homestead Act and what did it do?
It broke up Native American tribes to offer them land for farming
It gave speculators land for 50 cents an acre or less to settle in
Acres of land were given for the purpose of education
It gave 160 acre of land to an American citizen&ecouraged them to move west
16
The pubic library movement across America was greatly aided by the generous financial support from....
Thomas Paine
Andrew Carnegie
William T. Sherman
Andrew Jackson
17
The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was ...
availability of industrial jobs
available of service industry jobs
all of the above
availability of agricultural jobs
18
What were the goals/concentrations of the AFL and who were the founders?
Wages, hours, and working conditions. Samuel Gompers and Adolph Strasser
Laborers owned the industries in which they worked. Uriah Smith Stephens.
To advocate protection of an individual man's vote. Robert Granges & Samuel
none of the above
19
Did the Freedmen's Bureau provide food, clothing, and education to recently freed slaves?
True
False
20
One result of Republican "hard money" policies was...
Formation of the Democratic Party
Formation of the Whigs
Formation of the Greenback Labor Party
Formation of the Knights of Labor party
21
The rapid increase in population in Gilded Age industrial cities led to...
The rich tending to move to the center city
Immigrants moving to the city periphery because of easy access to streetcar
Neighborhoods composed of mixed class where the rich mingled with the poor
Ethnic ghettos that tended to be settled by people of the same nationality
22
One group barred from membership in the Knights of Labor was
Chinese
Disabled
Native American
African American
23
The major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was...
Environment policies
The tax policy
War concerns
The tariff policy
24
The general business climate of the Gilded Age...
Rejected the notion of conspicuous consumption
Rejected overseas markets as infeasible due to high transportation costs
Welcomed competition as a motivator to improve the quality of products
Endorsed the corporate model of the trust
25
Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War?
Baseball
Basketball
Hockey
Football
