APUSH Period 6

Question 1

New Immigrants mainly immigrated to america in

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The late 1800s and early 1900s

Question 2

The decline in the Buffalo can be attributed to all of the following except

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Their meat was highly desirable in Eastern markets

Question 3

Homesteaders where often unsuccessful because...

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They lacked the money, resources and knowledge to build a farm

Question 4

Which new form of technology from this time were Americans reluctant to embrace

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airplanes

Question 5

Factory work, Homestead Act, Transcontinental Railroad work

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Pull factor

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true about the growth of the Middle class during this time?

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Most were white Catholics

Question 7

What was the Prohibition?

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The banning of selling/ buying or producing of alcohol

Question 8

Why was the Battle of Wounded Knee important? (2 answers)

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It was the final conflict between Native Americans and whites, More than 200 Lakota Sioux were killed

Question 9

What is Assimilation?

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The process of losing one culture and taking on another.

Question 10

Private citizens can vote on a proposed law through the

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referendum process

Question 11

Many immigrants chose to live in ethnic ghettos because

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The culture and language were comfortable and familiar

Question 12

What economic system did the US employ during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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Laissez-faire capitalism

Question 13

Urged African Americans to RESIST segregation and Jim Crow Laws

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WEB DuBois

Question 14

Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile form an alliance to control the prices of the cell phone industry

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Horizontal Integration (trust)

Question 15

Which of the following was true of the Dawes Act of 1887?

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Eliminated most tribal land in favor of individual ownership

Question 16

What gave citizens more of a voice in who is going to be a candidate for election?

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Primary

Question 17

New Immigrants were mainly

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darker featured

Question 18

Industrialization and Progressive Era are linked because

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Progressives tried to fix problems caused by industrializtio

Question 19

What two companies built the Transcontinental Railroad?

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Central Pacific, Union Pacific

Question 20

How did a political machine get what it wanted?

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used briber, graft, and the spoils system

Question 21

Which "Progressive era" presidents re-segregated federal institution that had been integrated during Reconstruction?

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 22

Private citizens can introduce a law to their state legislatures through

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initiative process

Question 23

Why is competition between companies good?

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it keeps prices low

Question 24

Private citizens can remove an elected official from office through

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recall process

Question 25

Progressives largely failed at

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Promoting racial equality

Question 26

Many people were attracted to city life because

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all of the above

Question 27

Urged African Americans create economic independence rather than resist segregation

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Booker T Washington

Question 28

Upton Sinclair wanted to expose the horrors of the meat packing industry

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False

Question 29

What work would describe this image?

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“How the Other Half Lives” by Jacob Riis

Question 30

What group is pictured?

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Women’s Christian Temperance Movement

Question 31

Which amendment passed prohibition?

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18th amendment

Question 32

Divided Reservations into individual farms and sold the remaining land to white ranchers.

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the Dawes Act

Question 33

New immigrants were mainly from

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Italy, Poland, Russia, China

Question 34

Russian Pogroms against Jews

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Push factor

Question 35

New immigrants were mainly

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Catholic or Jewish

Question 36

Men like Rockefeller and Carnegie justified their ruthless business tactics with

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Social Darwinism

Question 37

Every treaty made between the US government and Native American tribes has been violated.

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True

Question 38

Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, and Upton Sinclair all

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worked to expose inequality and corruption

Question 39

The invention of subways led to

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All of the above

Question 40

What was the goal of Native American boarding schools?

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To kill the Indian and save the man

Question 41

What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance

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A ritual to bring back the buffalo and expel the white man from their lands

Question 42

What disease plagued the drinking water in mega-cities?

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Cholera

Question 43

What were the negatives of prohibition?

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all of the above

Question 44

All of the following are ways "Robber Barons" like Rockefeller were BAD for American except:

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They were nativists who refused to hire "new" immigrants

Question 45

What 3rd party candidate who fought for workers rights impacted the election of 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912

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Eugene V. Debs; Socialist

Question 46

What was Henry Ford's greatest contribution to the automobile industry? (2 answers)

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The assembly line, Standardized Car Parts

Question 47

How did Political Machines control cities in the late 1800s

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All of the above.

Question 48

Henry Ford's perfection of the assembly line and interchangeable parts led to

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all of the above

Question 49

"The Jungle" was instrumental in the passage of (pick 2)

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Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 50

What is the Graduated Income Tax

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The super wealthy are taxed at a higher rate than the poor/middle class

Question 51

What kinds of new jobs led to the growth of the middle class?

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Management positions in factories

Question 52

Our capitalist system relies on free enterprise, which means

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competition between companies

Question 53

Which of the following is NOT and example of the effects of Assimilation?

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Allowing all people to practice their own religious rituals

Question 54

Muckrakers sought to

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Fight corruption by exposing it

Question 55

Why did American business begin expanding to foreign markets in the late 1800s?

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The Panic of 1873 proved the risk of relying solely on domestic markets, Domestic Markets were over-saturated

Question 56

The growth of towns like Abilene Kansas and Ogallala Nebraska can be attributed to....

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The construction of railroads that transported cattle.

Question 57

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the "Gilded Age"?

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A renewed effort by the US gov to regulate trade and big business

Question 58

What did the Social Gospel Movement preach?

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Christians needed to help the poor

Question 59

What does laissez-faire mean?

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the government did NOT interfere with the economy

Question 60

The mass immigration of the late 1800s caused a "melting pot" of cultures and languages in the U.S.

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False

Question 61

McDonalds owns the cattle farms, butchering plants, transportation, and restaurants

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Vertical Integration

Question 62

People who thought men like Carnegie and Rockefeller were BAD for America called them

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Robber Barons

Question 63

Immigrants lived in tenements because

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All of the above

Question 64

A major difference between the immigration process at Angel Island and Ellis Island was that at Angel Island

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Chinese immigrants might be detained for weeks, months or even years.

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APUSH Period 6

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