U.S History Chapter 6-8 Test.
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- 1.Immigrants in the late 19th century came from these regions.
- A.
Western & Eastern Europe
- B.
Eastern & Southern Europe
- C.
Northern & Western Europe
- D.
Eastern & Northern Europe
- 2.Defended his fortune through the Gospel of Wealth and said wealthy benefit society.
- A.
Brooker T. Washington
- B.
John D. Rockerfeller
- C.
Andrew Carnegie
- 3.The first immigrant group to be excluded from the U.S.
- A.
African Americans
- B.
Indians
- C.
Mexicans
- D.
Jews
- E.
Chinese
- 4.Attempt by the government to limit the power of trust and monopolies.
- A.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- B.
Bill of Rights
- C.
Gilded Age
- D.
Interstate Commerce Act
- 5.Civil service reform act that ended patronage & the SPOILS SYSTEM-JOBS TO SUPPORTERS
- A.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- B.
Eliminate competition
- C.
Pendleton Act
- 6.Created the Standard Oil Company & used the trust to eliminate competition.
- A.
Thomas Nast
- B.
John D. Rockefeller
- C.
W.E.B. DuBois
- 7.Main purpse of business consolidation in the late 1800s.
- A.
Eliminate competion
- B.
Strikes
- C.
Tariffs
- 8.People in the late 1800s that advocated restrictions on immigrants.
- A.
Discrimination
- B.
Nativists
- C.
Racists
- 9.Belief that government should NOT regulate business.
- A.
Strike
- B.
Skilled workers
- C.
Crimes
- D.
Laissez fair
- 10.Place where most immigrants settled.
- A.
Counrty
- B.
Cities
- C.
Farms
- 11.Main type of workers successfully organized in the late 1800s by the unions.
- A.
Skilled workers
- B.
Immigrants
- C.
Unskilled workers
- 12.Time of corruption when politicians often used power to enrich themselevs.
- A.
Gilded Age
- B.
Social Gospel
- 13.First (weak) attempt at government regulation of business (to regulate railroad rates)
- A.
Great Strike of 1877
- B.
Interstate Commerce Act
- C.
Sherman Trust Act
- 14.Political cartoonist who brought down the Tweed Ring (corrupt political machine)
- A.
Thomas Nast
- B.
Plessy
- C.
Ferguson
- 15.Used vertical consolidation to dominate the steel industry.
- A.
Rockerfeller
- B.
Booker T. Washington
- C.
Andrew Carnegie
- 16.Term used by critics to decribe the wealthy industialists.
- A.
Robber barons
- B.
Industrial workers of the land
- C.
The enrinch
- 17.Jane Addams created this movement in the late 1800s to help immigrants/poor.
- A.
Shelters
- B.
Settlement houses
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