US History A questions and answers | Graded A
What did SOCIAL DARWINISM discourage Correct Answer: government regulation
Why were scabs unpopular? Correct Answer: They were workers used to break strikes
Which did not contribute to the industrial boom in 1800s? Correct Answer: Emergence of middle class
How did Andrew Carnegie control the steel industry? Correct Answer: Monopoly>Vertical integration
What did consolidation and trusts reduce during 1800s? Correct Answer: Competition
What was the purpose of collective barganing? Correct Answer: Working together for more rights for
workers
Where did immigrants arrive? Correct Answer: East coast
Urbanization Correct Answer: the growth of cities
Goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act Correct Answer: Stop immigration from China
Chinese workers were paid __________ wages than native Americans. Correct Answer: lower
Who founded settlement houses? Correct Answer: Social reformers
Purpose of the grandfather clause Correct Answer: protect men whose fathers voted before civil war
What made skyscrapers possible? Correct Answer: elevators
Jim Crow Laws Correct Answer: Separate black and white people
Plessy v. Ferguson results Correct Answer: Separate but equal
What kept African Americans from voting in the south? Correct Answer: 1. Literacy tests 2. Property
tests 3. Violence
Goals of the progressive movement? Correct Answer: 1. protect social welfare
2. promote moral improvement
3. create economic reform
4. foster efficiency
Muckrakers Correct Answer: A group of investigative reporters who pointed out the abuses of big
business and the corruption of urban politics; the 'muck' of society
Pure Food and Drug Act Correct Answer: requires truthful labels
What did SOCIAL DARWINISM discourage Correct Answer: government regulation
Why were scabs unpopular? Correct Answer: They were workers used to break strikes
Which did not contribute to the industrial boom in 1800s? Correct Answer: Emergence of middle class
How did Andrew Carnegie control the steel industry? Correct Answer: Monopoly>Vertical integration
What did consolidation and trusts reduce during 1800s? Correct Answer: Competition
What was the purpose of collective barganing? Correct Answer: Working together for more rights for
workers
Where did immigrants arrive? Correct Answer: East coast
Urbanization Correct Answer: the growth of cities
Goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act Correct Answer: Stop immigration from China
Chinese workers were paid __________ wages than native Americans. Correct Answer: lower
Who founded settlement houses? Correct Answer: Social reformers
Purpose of the grandfather clause Correct Answer: protect men whose fathers voted before civil war
What made skyscrapers possible? Correct Answer: elevators
Jim Crow Laws Correct Answer: Separate black and white people
Plessy v. Ferguson results Correct Answer: Separate but equal
What kept African Americans from voting in the south? Correct Answer: 1. Literacy tests 2. Property
tests 3. Violence
Goals of the progressive movement? Correct Answer: 1. protect social welfare
2. promote moral improvement
3. create economic reform
4. foster efficiency
Muckrakers Correct Answer: A group of investigative reporters who pointed out the abuses of big
business and the corruption of urban politics; the 'muck' of society
Pure Food and Drug Act Correct Answer: requires truthful labels
