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RANDOMIZE THE ANSWERS! A Period 6 APUSH review, featuring close-enough-to-AP questions (tm).
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1
What act was intended to prevent monopolies (like the one in the picture) from occurring?
Homestead Act
Pendleton Act
vertical integration
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
2
True or False: Transcontinental railroads caused the creation of time zones.
False
True
3
What was
not
necessarily a part of the Populist party's platform?
an Anti-Trust act
Right to form unions
government ownership of railroads
free coinage of silver
4
This cartoon depicts political bosses, leaders of political machines, that did all
except
..
led riots through cities
bribed government officials
funded police and fire departments
extorted money from the government
5
Overall, the presidents in the Gilded Age...
Were generally ineffective
Were effective in repairing the country
prevented monopolies from taking power
Were very strong and always had their way
6
T/F: Settlement houses inspired more women to enter the workforce and do more social work.
False
True
7
What was a main (seemingly predictable) reason on why W J Bryan lost the elections he ran for?
Big business backed and bought the election for McKinley
He died before he could run again
Many of his ideas were unpopular
He was not backed by a major political party
8
What effect did the Dawes Act have on the Native Americans?
Negative, as the land was bad, and they fell into poverty
No effect, the act was not ever passed
Negative, as the Natives fought over the land
positive, as they did not need to fear hostile settlers
9
Settlement houses provided everything
but
...
Services to help newcomers cope with city life
Classes to learn English
Places for frontiersmen to stay
A hub for social reform and women's activism
10
The person represented in this image
most
notably used this tactic to gain more market share.
political bribery
vertical integration
sharecropping
horizontal integration
11
Which of the following is an example of vertical integration?
Buying trains to transport your oil
Agreeing on an exclusivity deal with a railroad company
Investing money in museums and parks
Buying out the competing paper mill next door
12
True or False: The American Federation of Labor actively included women and black laborers.
FALSE
TRUE
13
After Garfield's death, Arthur introduced the Pendleton Act which
What is this...a sad PBSkids show?
dismantled the "spoils system"
strengthened the Secret Service
forced parties to make bipartisan decisions
14
All of the following were traits of the majority of the
new
wave of immigrants
except
...
unskilled
escaping religious persecution
came from the north and west of Europe
poor
15
Which of the following groups of people would
most likely
support the Chinese Exclusion Act?
industrial workers
Nativists
railroad companies
wealthy businessowners
16
What
best
explains why organized strikes by unskilled workers failed?
Companies were too rich to care
They did not have enough participation
The new wave of immigrants filled in the job openings
The strikes did not last that long
17
Down in the south, blacks were
living comfortable lives as a result of sharecropping
well accepted into southern society
enjoying full rights
still burdened by limitations on their rights
18
What
best
explains why this is this period often dubbed as "The Gilded Age"?
America had undergone economic prosperity
America looked great, but there were still deep problems
Gold had been found in the Black Hills
America had risen to perfection
19
Which of the following groups of people would
most likely
endorse social darwinism?
Wealthy businessowners
urban industrial workers
Republicans
Populists
20
Cleveland believed in __ approach to gov't. Harrison believed in the ____.
hands-off; same
hands-off; opposite
heavy-handed; same
heavy-handed; opposite
21
This technique, pioneered by people like Pulitzer and Hearst, sensationalized news stories.
Little Big Horn
Bessemer process
yellow journalism
social darwinism
22
Of all of the answers, what was the
most important
effect of the transcontinental railroad?
Living out west was much more feasible than ever before
State governments nearly went bankrupt
They outperformed steamboats
They went farther than a subcontinental railroad
23
Populists were primarily made up of...
industrial workers upset with poor working conditions
former Radical Republicans
former business owners bought out by trusts
farmers upset with the power the wealthy had over their job
24
What was
not
a reason why Americans wanted the land that the Natives were on out west?
More farm land
Have a place to put the 'new' immigrants
Gold and other natural resources had been discovered
People wanted land to build railroads
25
Carnegie cited this for the reason that he wanted to give his money back to the cities.
Gospel of Wealth
social darwinism
steel
his scottish origins
26
Which group of people would
most definitely
support the free coinage of silver?
Populists
Democrats
industrial workers
Republicans
27
Booker T. Washington was often under criticism because
He believed blacks should be under whites
He endorsed big business in politics
He pushed for immediate equal rights for blacks
Believed whites were not ready to accept blacks into society
28
T/F: American media skewed Custer's Last Stand to be like an atrocity committed by the Natives.
???
True
False
29
What was a direct result of the advent of the lightbulb?
Fall in coal sales
Fall in kerosene sales
Shorter workday
Increased wages
30
What was the importance of the
Munn vs Illinois
ruling?
states could regulate private industry
states could not regulate private industry
businesses were untouchable by the government
the federal government could regulate private industry
31
Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier was all but gone by the end of the era and
Fostered democracy
Defined the American Spirit
and was a place where people unhappy with cities could flee
it shaped the American character
32
What was one of the "solutions to the Native American problem" that was actually implemented?
Killing them off
Set up "boarding schools" to teach them the American way
Granting them autonomy
Leaving the poor souls alone :(
33
What was the Crop-Lien system designed to do?
Make the process of planting and harvesting crops easier.
Create a pool of crops that farmers could contribute to
Keep only blacks 'enslaved' on plantations
keep poor, landless farmers in debt
34
All of these would be examples Samuel Gompers' "bread and butter" approach to unionizing
except
campaigning for federal reform
getting better wages
getting better hours
improving working conditions
35
What was an actual consequence of the "separate, but equal" ruling in
Plessy vs. Ferguson
?
Blacks were given equal schooling
Blacks were given worse schooling
Blacks were given better schooling
