APUSH Period Six

One of the main reasons why labor conflicts like Homestead and Pullman happened was wage cuts.

One goal of the Grange Movement was to have the government take over the railroads as an "essential industry."

Which of the following was NOT TRUE of the Assembly Line?

What was Booker T. Washington's main push for Civil Rights?

What business were men like Swift and Armour a part of in the late 1800s?

Who was Samuel Gompers?

Williams vs. Mississippi was an important case regarding ...

The Homestead Act promised 160 acres of land (to white men only) for a small fee and the promise to make land productive

True or False: Those opposed to segregation in the South argued that it violated the 13th Amendment?

Which of the following WAS NOT a normal occurance for immigrants at Ellis Island?

What did Settlement Houses offer to the community?

Which of the following WAS NOT a part of Grant's Indian Peace Plan?

What IS NOT A REASON WHY groups like the Women's Christian Temperance Union support prohibition?

During this time period the government almost always sided with the workers in labor disputes with the owners.

The Chinese Exclusion Act banned new immigration from China and it took away rights from Chinese already in the U.S..

The Jungle exposed the meat packing industry as unsanitary, so the government created the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Which of the following WOULD NOT BE a push factor for emmigrants?

Progressive Leaders thought that corporations were in general harmful to the American people if they were unregulated.

Mark Twain first used the phrase "Gilded Age" to describe this time period as good on the outside but not on the inside.

What is a Boom Bust Cycle?

Who were the Pinkerton's?

William (Billy Possum) Taft did very little to break up big corporations and trusts while he was president.

Woodrow Wilson did a lot TO DESEGREGATE the federal government and it's buildings.

How was Survival of the Fittest used during this time period?

Ida Tarbell was a Muckraker who wrote stores about J.P. Morgan and the banking industry.