AP US Quiz 1870

Which of the following industries played an important role in the late nineteenth century in attracting immigrants to the United States?
1. ranching
2. railroads
3. shipbuilding
4. cotton farming
Which is the exception? Both Social Darwinism and classical economics agree...
1. humans are descended from lower animals
2. free competition promotes human progress
3. government ownership of some of the means is desirable
4. the government should ease the lot of the poor
In the late nineteenth century, the American working classes suffered from three of the following conditions. Which is not true?
1. no job security; layoffs due to seasonal, cyclical, or technological factors
2. no government health and safety regulations
3. declining standard of living, in both absolute and relative terms
4. little or no worker's compensation for injury
The immediate cause of the railroad strikes of 1877 was...
1. the refusal of the owners to adopt safety measures
2. the infiltration of unions by anarchists
3. 10 percent cut in wages
4. the refusal of the owners to agree to cost-of-living increases
Which of the following men suggested a socialist solution to the problem of maldistribution of wealth?
1. Henry George
2. Lester F. Ward
3. Edward Bellamy
4. William Graham Sumner
Which of the following emphasizes most strongly the duty of the rich to do good works for the public?
1. Social Darwinism
2. classical economics
3. socialism
4. the Gospel of Wealth
Electricity as a source of light and power was introduced in the:
1. l860s
2. l870s
3. l880s
4. l890s
Both the Bessemer process and the open-hearth process are methods of:
1. pasteurizing milk
2. refining petroleum
3. mining coal
4. producing steel
Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the field of:
1. shipping
2. steel
3. banking
4. petroleum
A vertically integrated system of production is one in which:
1. management and labor share equally in the profits
2. one company controls the entire industrial process from source of raw material to the final market.
3. all the employees belong to one union.
4. employees of different ethnic origins work together
John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in the field of:
1. steel
2. banking
3. shipping
4. petroleum
Both Social Darwinism and Darwin's theory of biological evolution agree with the doctrine of:
1. Social Gospel
2. instant creation
3. biblical inerrancy
4. survival of the fittest
A major feature of the program of the American Federation of Labor was its emphasis on:
1. mass organization of all laborers--skilled, unskilled, and agricultural
2. political action to achieve its goals
3. immediate objectives, such as wages, hours, and working conditions
4. reforming and altering the capitalist system
The Homestead strike of 1892 and the Pullman strike of 1894 were similar in that:
1. both started when management ordered pay cuts for workers
2. both involved the American Railway Union
3. federal troops were used to restore order in both
4. strikers fought Pinkerton guards in violent pitched battles at both locations
In seeking a court injunction against the Pullman and related railroad strikes, the federal government invoked...
1. its powers over interstate transport of the mails
2. its general police power
3. its powers of national defense
4. the due-process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
Which of the following novels is an account of the struggle between oppressed wheat farmers and powerful railroad interests in California?
1. Kate Chopin's Awakening
2. Frank Norris's Octopus
3. Frank Norris's Pit
4. Upton Sinclair's Jungle
Which of the following novels is a shocking expose of the horrible conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry?
1. Kate Chopin's Awakening
2. Frank Norris's Octopus
3. Frank Norris's Pit
4. Upton Sinclair's Jungle
Life in the American city in the late nineteenth century required a more conscious awareness of:
1. clock time and time schedules
2. public health
3. fire safety
4. all of the above
Louis Sullivan was significant to American urban development as:
1. the inventor of the flush toilet
2. the builder of the first subway
3. the inventor of the elevator
4. an architect, especially of skyscrapers

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