LEAP 2025 Review US History Part 1 - Missed Questions

Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?

• The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.

• Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power.

• In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry.

• Small, family owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations.

A typical tenement could be described as

• Un-crowded with all the basic necessities of life

• Crowded yet provided for all the basic necessities

• Un-crowded with all the modern necessities of life

• Crowded without provision for basic necessities of life

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the:

• increased need to protect worker interests

• decreased power of political machines

• increased demand for skilled workers

• decreased profitability of the agricultural sector

This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Ban on Foreign Labor Act

• The Asian Immigration Act

• The Chinese Labor Law

The social, economic, and political movement of the early 20th century to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life is best known as the?

• Socialist Movement

• Capitalist Movement

• Progressive Movement

• Sufferage Movement

Which of the following was intended to assimilate Native Americans?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Established the ICC & gave the federal govt the power to regulate the railroad industry.

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Clayton Anti-trust Act
• 16th Amendment
• Railroad Regulation Act

Which result completes this diagram?

• Ratification of suffrage amendment.

• Building of the transcontinental railroad.

• Passage of prohibition legislation

• Expansion of labor Unions

Answer explanation

Labor Unions began because of the poor conditions in the factories.

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

Phrase that suggests the government should play a very limited role in business.

• Laissez- Faire

• Spoils System

• Quarantine

• Graft

• Pendleton Civil Service Act