Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Exam Study Guide Chapters 14 and 15

15 Vocab Words
25 Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice Questions:

  • According to the theory of laissez faire, when does the economy function best? 
  • What did The Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act attempt to do? 
  • What idea did Social Darwinism promote? 
  • Effects of business practices of railroads 
  • Effects of industrialization (urbanization, immigration)
  • How the federal government aided the growth of transcontinental railroads
  • Why the federal government placed few restrictions on immigration, Between 1870 and 1920. 
  • Why John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. Pierpont Morgan were sometimes called robber barons
  • How the completion of the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroads contributed to the industrial growth of the United States 
  • important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion
  • Major purpose of both the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and the Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan (1907)
  • In the late 1800s, WHY were most strikes by unions unsuccessful
  • During the late 1800s, which group strongly supported an open immigration policy?
  • What factors allowed employers to cut worker's wages in the late 19th Century?
  • During the late 19th century, Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, and Eugene Debs were leaders of what movement? 
  • Two late-nineteenth-century inventions that drew many women out of the home and into the workforce
  • What motivated Nativism in late 19th century?
Vocab:

Mass Transit
Ellis Island
Vertical Integration
John D. Rockefeller
Interstate Commerce Act
Transcontinental Railroad
Andrew Carnegie
Mass Transit
Angel Island
Urbanization
Chinese Exclusion Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Nativism
Horizontal Integration
Tenement

 

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