Period 6 Review

1. The Homestead Act (1862) assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to... (LT 6.1)

•  A) raise government revenue.

•  B) promote frontier settlement.

•  C)  conserve natural resources.

• D) favor large-scale “bonanza” farms.

2. The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing

      railroad corporations with (LT 6.1)

•  A) cash grants from new taxes.

•  B) land grants.

•  C) reduced prices for iron and steel.

•  D) aid for construction of railroad stations.

In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that (LT 6.3)

• A) African Americans could be denied the right to vote.

•  B) segregation was unconstitutional.

•  C) “separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible

•  D) the 14th Amendment did not apply to African Americans

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all the following EXCEPT: (LT 6.3)

•  A) literacy requirements.

•  B) poll taxes.

•  C) grandfather clauses.

•  D) the use of federal troops

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington…  (LT 6.4)

•  A) helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• B) advocated social equality.

•  C) discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut.

•  D) promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.

The first great industrial trusts, the ____________ was organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors.  (LT 6.5)

• American Railway Trust

• American Steel Company

• Standard Oil Company

• Unified Meat Industry Trust

The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was (LT 6.6)

• the development of the skyscraper.

• the availability of industrial jobs.

• the compact nature of those large communities.

• the advent of new housing structures known as dumbbell tenements.

Most “new” immigrants in the late 19th century... (LT 6.8)

•  A) eventually returned to their country of origin.

•  B) tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.

•  C) were subjected to stringent immigration restrictions.

•  D) quickly assimilated into the mainstream of American life.

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, although aimed at monopolies, was at first primarily used to curb the power of whom? (LT 6.9)

• A) manufacturing corporations

•   B) State legislatures

• C) labor unions

• D) railroad corporations

Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in... (LT 6.9)

•  A) Congress passing legislation supporting the formation of unions.

• B) a ban on Irish immigration.

• C) the use of federal troops to keep peace during strikes.

• D) many associating labor unions with radicalism.