APUSH ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS ANSWERS

APUSH (ACTUAL / ) TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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The combining of a number of firms engaged in the same business, such as the merging of man different petroleum drilling companies into one company, is an example of - -- Answers---Horizontal intergration

By the end of the 1800s, the use of pools, trusts, and holding companies by big business resulted in - --Answers---A concentration of economic power in the hands of a few

The philosophy of Social Darwinism promoted the idea that - - -Answers---Only the fittest individuals survived in a free marketplace

The philosophy of Social Darwinism appealed to some American businessmen because it justified their belief that - - -Answers---Their business tactics were legitimate

"The Gospel of Wealth," as advanced by Andrew Carnegie, promoted the concept that people with wealth shoud - -- Answers---Use their resources to help society

As an alternative to Social Darwinism, Henry George's 1879 book Progress and Poverty proposed - --Answers---A tax on land that would distribute wealth more equally

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As a result of the industrialization of the late 1800s, American workers experienced a - --Answers---Rise in their standard of living

The increased employment of women and children in industry was due to - --Answers---The decreasing need for skilled labor in the factories

In the 1870s, efforts by the labor unions to gain bargaining power were unsuccessful primarily because - --Answers--- Many Americans feared the tactics of the unions and considered them too radical

The Knights of Labor was - --Answers---An extremely powerful labor union whose membership reached over 1 million by 1920

The Haymarket Square Riot of 1886 was - --Answers---An indication to many members of the public that labor was riddled with radicals

The outcome of the Pullman strike of 1894 indicated that the federal government would - --Answers---Intervene on the side of management rather than labor

Andrew Carnegie became the major suppliers of - --Answers- --Steel by using vertical integration to control all aspects of its manufacture 2 / 4

In late-nineteenth century America, unions had difficulty prospering because - --Answers---Middle-class values heralded individualism and private and private property, and unions were seen as a threat to these

Which of the following is an example of the influence of corporate power on politics in the decades following the Civil War? - --Answers---Establishing an eight-hour day for government employees

Despite the problems of rapid growth, the cities of the late 1800s continued to grow because - --Answers---They were the sources of jobs

During the 1880s, when Southern blacks immigrated to the cities, - --Answers---Black women found work more often than did black men

In the late 1880s, most of the foreign immigrants to the cities - --Answers---Established close-knit ethnic communities

In dealing with the huge numbers of immigrants, most cities solved their housing problems by moving the new arrivals into

• --Answers---Tenement slums
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Jacob Riis's 1890 book How the Other Half Lives shocked middle-class Americans with its sensational description of - - -Answers---Lower-class slums

The city machine and "boss rule" were created and continued to thrive because - --Answers---Immigrants needed services and employment

During the late 1800s, the most significant effect of the change in incomes upon society was that - --Answers---The middle class grew larger and more prosperous

Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck stores were the first to

• --Answers---Provide mail-order catalogues in rural areas

In the late 1800s, the most popular of the new spectator sports was - --Answers---Baseball

Organized football was first played by - --Answers---College students

During the Teddy Roosevelt administration, the White House conference on organized sports culminated in the formation of what was to become the - --Answers---National College Athletic Association

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