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Quiz por Tumaini Sango, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Tumaini Sango
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Questão 1
Questão
The expansion of railroads to the West Coast led to the
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destruction of American Indian habitats.
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first American Industrial Revolution in the Northeast.
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realization that private funding alone should build America's railroads.
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admission of California as a free state.
Questão 2
Questão
How did railroad companies encourage immigration?
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They offered free homesteads to those who would settle along rail lines.
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They paid high wages to workers who would emigrate from their home countries.
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They ran advertising campaigns in Europe for cheap railroad lands in the U.S.
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They lobbied the federal government to overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Questão 3
Questão
The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to
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increased sectional tension.
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assimilation of Mexican Americans into society as equals.
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hostility between the government and big business.
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economic growth and the expansion of Asian markets.
Questão 4
Questão
Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in which of the following?
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Integration of public schools
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Violent riots that swept through major northern cities in the 1890s
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Ratification of the 15th Amendment by southern states that had been holding out
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Second-class citizenship for African Americans.
Questão 5
Questão
Prior to 1900, most African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South
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migrated north and took jobs in industrial cities.
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became sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
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migrated west to take advantage of free homesteads.
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left the United States and emigrated to Africa.
Questão 6
Questão
While mainstream African American leaders of the late Gilded Age differed in how they sought to end segregated society, many followed a moderate course that called for
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violent protests.
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nonviolent civil disobedience.
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a "back-to-Africa" movement.
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gradual accommodation.
Questão 7
Questão
Andrew Carnegie reflects which of the following business models of the Gilded Age in the above quote?
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Conspicuous consumption
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Social Darwinism
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Laissez-faire economics
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Vertical integration
Questão 8
Questão
The rise of big business was fostered by all of the following during the Gilded Age EXCEPT
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improved transportation systems that opened new resources and market.
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the strict laissez-faire policy of the federal government.
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plentiful natural resources.
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a growing immigrant labor force.
Questão 9
Questão
The general business climate of the Gilded Age
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welcomed competition as a motivator to improve the quality of products.
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rejected overseas markets as unfeasible due to high transportation costs.
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endorsed the corporate model of the trust.
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rejected the notion of conspicuous consumption.
Questão 10
Questão
Immigrants tended to settle
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in coastal cities in the South.
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in rural areas of the North.
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on the West Coast.
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in industrial cities.
Questão 11
Questão
The rapid increase in population in Gilded Age industrial cities led to
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neighborhoods composed of mixed classes where the rich mingled with the poor.
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the rich tending to move to the center city.
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immigrants moving to the city periphery because of easy access to streetcars.
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ethnic ghettos that tended to be settled by people of the same nationality.
Questão 12
Questão
The rapid increase in the pace and character of immigration after 1890 led to
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increased nativist sentiment.
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the resurrection of the Know-Nothings as a major third party in presidential elections.
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massive deportations of Catholics and Jews.
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the voluntary return of a majority of immigrants to their country of origin.
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