APUSH Ch. 16-17

Which of the following was NOT a key tension as the nation expanded west after the Civil War?

Shareholders earn dividends - cash payments from the corporation’s profits.

Which of the following are considered factors of production? Select all that apply.

Which best explains changes in agricultural production in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s?

The South’s postwar economy remained tied to what product?

The Haymarket Riot caused the popularity of the Knights of Labor to decline.

Which of the following contributed to widespread segregation in the South after the Civil War. Select all that apply.

Corporations tried to limit competition by creating pools and  monopolies.

Democrats came to power in the southern states after Reconstruction were called Scalawags.

What led to the last great land rush in 1889?

One business taking over all the different businesses it depends on for its operation is called...

What ultimately led to the demise of the Plains Indians? Select all that apply.

What movement established cooperatives and lobbied for laws to regulate railroad and elevator rates?

Factors of production refer all the things necessary to create a good or a service.

Combining competing firms into one corporation is called...

How was railway construction funded in the late 1800s? Select all that apply.

Which of the following was impacted by the mining boom in the late 1800s? Select all that apply.

Which of the following is NOT a reason the South remain poverty-stricken after the Civil War?

Why were farmers becoming a minority by the end of the 19th century? Select all that apply

The South remained largely agricultural after the Civil War.

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 signaled a major reversal of previous federal Indian policies.

Which of the following did the Ocala Platform NOT endorse?

Supporters of which policy believed that the government should not interfere in the economy?

Literacy tests, poll taxes, whites-only primaries, grandfather clauses were used to prevent southern blacks from voting.

Two-Thirds of the Plains Indians were nomadic in the 19th century.

In 1866 Alexander Graham Bell laid a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean.

What signified the first federal effort to regulate the railroads?

Access to natural resources for businesses changed from the mid-1800s to the late 1800s most directly as a result of...

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)  outlawed “separate but equal accommodations” for white and black passengers on the railroads.

All business have two types of costs: fixed costs and opportunity costs.

A Century of Dishonor (1881) by Helen Hunt Jackson created support for what policy toward Native Americans?

A monopoly is a company that sells shares of its business to the public.

The rise of the United States as an industrial power began after the Civil War (1861-1865)

By 1900 women made up the majority of the labor force.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of a nationwide rail network in the late 1800s?