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
