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Question #1
How did the middle class distinguish itself from the upper classes and those in the lower economic class?
A.   All of these describe the middle class in industrial America.
B.   They increasingly moved away from the central cities into the emerging suburban neighborhoods.
C.   They underscored education for their children.
D.   They emphasized a separation between the home and the public sphere of work and politics.
E.   They created a self-identity that relied on hard work, discipline and morality.
Question #2
Which of the following is not an accurate pairing?
A.   Horatio Alger and Gospel of Wealth (correct)
B.   John Pierpont Morgan and the financial industry
C.   Andrew Carnegie and vertical integration of steel
D.   John D. Rockefeller and horizontal integration of oil
E.   Jay Gould and the railroad industry
Question #3
All of the following characterized working class life in American industrial cities except
A.   Lack of opportunities for entertainment
B.   Lack of affordable housing
C.   Disease epidemics
D.   Poor quality of public services
E.   Poverty
Question #4
Which industry most spurred economic growth and innovation in related industries in the nineteenth century?
A.   Banking
B.   Railroads
C.   Food
D.   Oil
E.   Steel
Question #5
Industrialization and urbanization played an important role in the demarcation of social class in America.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #6
Which of these statements about Mother Jones is not accurate?
A.   She was jailed several times for her activism.
B.   She was an ardent support of labor rights.
C.   She strongly supported women's rights and suffrage.
D.   She came to the United States as an immigrant.
E.   Her confrontational style earned her the nickname "the most dangerous woman in America."
Question #7
The Triangle Shirtwaist factory
A.   Exemplifies the sweatshop conditions typical of industrial America
B.   Became the symbol to many of the need for strong labor unions
C.   Was the location of a devastating fire in 1911 that brought into focus the woefully lacking protections of American workers
D.   Employed mostly young women who had recently immigrated to the US
E.   Is represented by all of the statements above
Question #8
Which of the following is the best statement of the theory of social Darwinism?
A.   The laws of evolution mean that social progress results only when we allow the strongest to rise to the top, without government intervention.
B.   Governments have a social responsibility towards the poor to uplift them
C.   The wealthy are wealthy because of their strength and they therefore have a responsibility to assist the less fortunate.
D.   Because social forces complicate the natural pressures of evolution, the best way to improve humankind is government regulation of human breeding patterns
E.   Natural selection among our ancestors resulted in the rise of Christianity and its moral values that should guide individuals in their treatment of the disadvantaged.
Question #9
The tax on imported goods is called
A.   Land
B.   Property
C.   Tariff
D.   Value added
E.   Excise
Question #10
All of the following are examples of federal involvement in the economy except…
A.   Congress passed legislation to encourage westward expansion and thus expansion of agriculture and markets.
B.   Congress supported domestic production by imposing tariffs on foreign imports.
C.   The federal government used the armed forces as a tool for clearing lands for American settlers in the West, thus boosting agriculture and growth of markets.
D.   It provided financial support for railroad companies through land grants.
E.   Congress actively attempted to regulate labor relations to boost industrial production.
Question #11
What factors contributed to the rapid urbanization of the United States?
A.   Industrialization
B.   Overseas immigration
C.   All of these
D.   Natural growth of the population, especially immigrant families
E.   Domestic rural to urban migration
Question #12
Late-nineteenth-century large urban areas were characterized by
A.   New amusements that allowed for increased mixing of people
B.   Segmentation of neighborhoods by class
C.   Expansion of mass transportation
D.   All of these
E.   Creation of business districts with high-rise buildings
Question #13
Which of the following pairings of inventors and their invention is not accurate?
A.   Christopher Stokes and the typewriter
B.   Edward Drake and oil drilling
C.   Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
D.   Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb
E.   Henry Bessemer and pasteurization
Question #14
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1877…
A.   All of these are accurate
B.   Aimed at regulating railroads and their monopolistic practices
C.   Created the Interstate Commerce Commission with significant power and funding to investigate abusive business practices
D.   Exemplifies the strong role the federal government took in regulating business practices
E.   Was immediately challenged in the courts by big business, resulting in diminishing its power
Question #15
By what year did the majority of Americans live in an urban area?
A.   1920
B.   1900
C.   1880
D.   1910
E.   1890

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