AP US History Chapter 24 Review – Flashcards
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All of the following economic developments were significant factors in enabling America to industrialize rapidly EXCEPT
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(E) the sale of confiscated Confederate land and property
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Which of the following two industries were most significantly expanded as a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad?
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(B) Mining and Agriculutre
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Which effort represented the first attempt to regulate the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations during this period?
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(E) Laws passed by state legislatures regulating the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations
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Which of the following was NOT among the common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?
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(B) Requiring their employees to buy railroad stock as a condition of employment
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Which of the following best describes the Europeans' approach to ownership of or investment in private companies in the US during this period?
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(B) Allowing Americans to manage the business unless an economic crisis occurred
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How did the American system of mass manufacturing of standardized, interchangeable parts influence the behavior of U.S. capitalists?
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(C) It stimulated the replacement of skilled labor with machinery by U.S. capitalists
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What two technological innovations greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late 19th century?
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(A) the typewriter and the telephone
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All of the following economic strategies were employed by the titans of industry during this period to maximize their corporations' profits EXCEPT
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(E) Seeking stable labor relations with their workers by permitting collective bargaining with unions
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Which of the following best describes the intellectual viewpoint of Andrew Carnegie as expressed in The Gospel of Wealth?
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(B) the wealthy should exhibit moral and social responsibility in their use of their God- given money
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Which entity was the first prosecuted for alleged restraint-of-trade violations by the U.S. government using the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
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(B) Labor unions
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All of the following were major attractions for potential investors on southern manufacturing industries EXCEPT
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(E) a well-educated and ethnically diverse workforce
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Despite generally rising wages in the 19th century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to all of the following EXCEPT
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(C) new educational requirements for jobs
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Which of the following was NOT a strategy utilized by late- 19th century employers to gain leverage over workers who were seeking to improve their wages and working conditions?
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(A) closed shop
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All of the following were reasons that the Knights of Labor ultimately failed to sustain its union independence and membership by the 1890's EXCEPT
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(E) racial and gender exclusiveness in its membership
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Which of the follwing was not a differenct between the knights of labor and the american federation of labor?
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E) the knights of labor refused to condone striking, the afl believed that strikes could help the workers cause
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Railroads changes the American landscape in all of the following ways except
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C)limiting the number of people moving to overcrowded cities
