Creating a Modern America CH 3 Test
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- Q1group that fought Chinese immigrationWorkingman's Party of CaliforniaCommunist Party of AmericaRepublican PartyDemocratic Party30s
- Q2location that served as an entry point for European immigrantsEllis IslandMississippi RiverSt. Lawrence SeawayAngel Island30s
- Q3founder of the Tuskegee InstituteBooker T. WashingtonGeorge WashingtonRutherford B. HayesEugene V. Debs30s
- Q4began the railroad boomPacific Railway ActCivil Rights Act of 1964Railroad Improvement Actthe Train Law30s
- Q5Republican president who tried to end patronageRutherford B. HayesEugene V. DebsBooker T. WashingtonAndrew Carnegie30s
- Q6allowed cloth to be made more quicklycotton jennyweaver machineautomatic loomsewing machine30s
- Q7enabled longer and heavier trainspine logsPacific Railway Actair brakesstronger steel30s
- Q8saw capitalism as a struggle between workers and ownersKarl MarxBooker T. WashingtonThomas JeffersonEugene V. Debs30s
- Q9decline in the value of money and an increase in pricesdeflationtaxesinflationmonetary controls30s
- Q10head of the American Railway UnionBooker T. WashingtonRutherford B. HayesEugene V. DebsJohn F. Kennedy30s
- Q11Laissez-faire relies on this to regulate prices and wages.the GNPgovernmentbusinessessupply and demand30s
- Q12In the Crédit Mobilier scandal, Union Pacific investors got rich byachieving a monopoly in hauling freight along their railroads’ tracks.accepting bribes from business owners to route railroad tracks through their towns.conspiring with other railroads to set high prices.paying inflated bills from a construction company they controlled.30s
- Q13In the late 1800s, workers’ buying power generally increased becausePrices fell faster than wageswages increased faster than prices.factories often increased wages.factories often increased prices.30s
- Q14What is one advantage that big corporations had over small businesses?They could hire more workers.Their products were more expensive.They had higher operating costs.They could produce goods more cheaply and efficiently.30s
- Q15Nativists reacted to immigration in the late 1800s bypressuring the government to limit or cut off immigration.grouping immigrants into their own sections of cities.seeking to convert Catholic immigrants to Protestantism.urging immigrants to assimilate into American society.30s