TEKS US History High School - H.3.B: Economic Issues
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High School - U.S. History
Social Studies
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- Q1This cover from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from -a direct democracy to a representative onea mostly rural society to a mostly urban onea slave-owning society to one without slaverya foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism60sH.3.B: Economic Issues
- Q2Why did the Populist Party want free coinage of silver?Why did the Populist Party want free coinage of silver?To raise campaign contribution limitsTo decrease the bargaining power of labor unionsTo reduce economic inflation30sH.3.B: Economic Issues
- Q3Which of the following occurred between 1865 and 1900 as a result of the rapid industrialization of the United States?Social and economic class divisions began to disappear.Concerns about air pollution led to stricter environmental regulations.Union membership increased as workers sought better pay and conditions.Factory owners introduced wage-equity policies for women in the workplace.60sH.3.B: Economic Issues
- Q4Which statement best completes this list?The cattle industry was nationalized under the Department of Agriculture.Most of the cowboys on cattle drives were European immigrants.The need to process large amounts of cattle made meatpacking a major industry.Congress passed legislation imposing tariffs on imported beef.60sH.3.B: Economic Issues
- Q5In this excerpt, Justice Harlan is warning against -allowing powerful monopolies to dominate interstate commercea civil service based on patronage rather than meritallowing labor unions to interfere with production goalsa lack of federal funding for essential transportation systems60sH.3.B: Economic Issues
- Q6The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the -decreased power of political machinesdecreased profitability of the agricultural sectorincreased need to protect worker interestsincreased demand for skilled workers30sH.3.B: Economic Issues