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US History II Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century? | Public land grants to private companies |
| which constitutional amendment did the Supreme Court use in the 1870s to the the 1890s to protect the rights of corporations- even though it had been written to protect individua; rights? | "Due Process" clause of the 14th amendment |
| Which of the following was one of the reasons that the United States encourages Chinese immigration after the Civil War? | |
| In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from | Russia |
| Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862? | Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve land |
| In the 1860s and 1870s, Nevada's Comstock Lode, Colorado's Rocky Mountains, and South Dakota's Black hills were all known for | being mountains |
| Which of the following developments made open ranching feasible on Great Plains between the 1860s and the 1880s? | Availability of free land |
| Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the post- Civil War western cattle boom? | It's high profits attracted shrewd investors |
| Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming? | Steel plows and other farm machinery |
| Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879? | African Americans migrating to the Great Plains |
| Which of the following statements describes women's experience in the West in the late nineteenth century? | Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota |
| Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre? | |
| Which president refashioned U.S. Indian policy in the latter half of the nineteenth century? | Grant |
| What was the purpose of Indian boarding schools in the late nineteenth century? | |
| The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to | Persuade Indians to abandon their traditional tribal cultures |
| Which of the following phenomena led the U.S. government to dismantle the Indian reservation system it had previously established? | White land hunger |
| Why did the Ghost Dance movement spread so quickly in Native American reservations in the late 1880s and early 1890s | The dance fostered native people's hopes that they could drive away white settlers |
| Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the battle of Wounded Knee? | |
| What was the result of the first wildlife protection bill passed by Congress in 1874? | President Grant vetoed the bill because he knew that killing the buffalo would cripple the Indian resistance |
| Farmers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century often faced which of the following natural challenges that could easily destroy crops | Hailstorms |
| Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant? | The lockout represented Carnegie's effort to break the plants union |
| New corporate managers pioneered which system to track expenses and revenues in the late nineteenth century? | Cost Accounting |
| Gustavus Swift boosted productivity in his Chicago slaughterhouses in the 1860s by | Assembly lines |
| Which of the following describes vertically integrated corporations? | Such corporations control all aspects of their operations |
| Which business strategy did John D. Rockefeller pioneer in the late nineteenth century? | Horizontal integration |
| The United States had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of | The Bessemer process |
| How did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95 percent of the nation's oil refining capacity by the 1880s? | Through predatory pricing and the creation of the trust |
| What late nineteenth century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture | Catalogs |
| The development of print advertising illustrates the significance of which late nineteenth century phenomenon? | Business creating demand for Brennan names |
| Which magazine was the first to take advantages of advertising revenue to build mass leadership, with over one million subscribers? | Ladies home journal |
| Which of the following was a consequence of mass production? | Skilled workers gradually lost their autonomy |
| The outcome of the implementation of scientific management was | resistance from workers |
| Which of the following statements characterizes the economics of working-class family life in the late nineteenth century? | In 1900, one of every five children below age 6 worked for wages |
| Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the United States in 1890? | White-dominated labor unions generally refused to allow blacks to join and seek industrial employment |
| Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920 | They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home |
| The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against Chinese in nineteenth century California by | Barring Chinese immigration to the United States |
| In terms of membership, the Knights of Labor discriminated | Specifically against Chinese |
| Hwy was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant | Led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor |
| Why was the American Federation of Labor more successful then the Knights of Labor in the late nineteenth century | The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours, and working conditions |
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