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History Exam
Mr. Tatum History First Semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the use of petroleum before automobiles? | Kerosene |
| Laisse-Faire relies on what? | A free market |
| Congress believed Tariffs were necessary. Why? | To protect American business from foreign competiton |
| Economics of scale resulted in what? | reduced costs |
| Why did government offer realroad companies land? | To encourage rapid production |
| Central Pacific Raliroad hired 10,000 workers from where? | China |
| How did raliroad companies raise most of the money to build their raliroads? | Selling Government land grants |
| What is vertical integration? | When a company owns all of the companies it needs |
| By the 1890's where were most immigrants from? | Eastern and Southern Europe |
| Why did labor unions oppose immigrants? | stole jobs |
| Mass transit in cities was from what in the late 1800s? | horsecar |
| How did new technology help farmers? | Didnt need as many workers |
| Who was William M. Tweed? | Leader of the Political Machine |
| What was teh Gospel of Wealth? | Philosophy that the wealthy Americans should become philanthropists |
| Why were Europeans looking overseas to sell their products? | Tariffs |
| Why did President Fillmore send a naval expediton to Japan? | Force Trade |
| Why shold the U.S. buld a large modern Navy? | To Stay intimidating |
| Why did the U.s. cause an economic crisi in Cuba? | Tariff on Sugar |
| The treaty of Paris granted independence to whom? | Cuba |
| The Philppines are now an independent country (true or false) | true |
| Why did President McKinley pick Theodore Roosevelt as his Vice President? | War Hero |
| What did Japan acquire from the war between Japan and China? | Territory of Ontario |
| What was the Rooselvelt Corollary? When was it used? | U.S. would mess with Latin Amercia when necessary in order to protect the western hemisphere. |
| What is a direct Primary? | All party member vote on a canidate to run in the general election |
| Theodore Roosevlet viewed the coal strike in 1902 as an example of what? | Groups pursuing their private interests at the nation's expense |
| how were u.s senators originally elected? | direct primary |
| what changed happened after teh triangle shirtwaist company tragedy? | Fire escapes: building codes |
| What was teh Laissez-Faire argument to preserve public land? | created many social problems |
| what idd the Payne-Aldrich Tariff do to tariffs? | hardly cut them at all. |
| Why did Taft's breaking up of trusts make roosevlet mad? | he thought taft was destrouing is system of cooperation adn reulatation in big business. |
| President Wilson said lower tariff rates would do waht? | benefit both American consumers and manufacturers. |
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