Unit 2 Lesson 9 , The Labor Movement Quiz

1. What negative impact did gold and silver mining have in the West?
A. Tent cities near the mines fostered criminals as long-term residents.
B. Ghost towns were left behind after the mines stopped producing. *** My Answer
C. Mining camps were sources of many contagious diseases.
D. Mass migration from the East Coast led to social tension among merchants.

2. What role did both men and women among Plains Indians share?
A. passing along traditions and knowledge *** My Answer
B. supervising spiritual life and rituals
C. gathering and preparing food
D. waging war to defend or extend territory

3. What was the primary goal of the Dawes Act? (I’m not very sure about this one)
A. to provide farms for Native American families
B. to preserve reservations for Native Americans **My Guess
C. to protect Native American cultures
D. to encourage Native Americans to become farmers

4. In what way did the nation's growing transportation system help promote economic growth?
A. It made it easier for Native Americans and freed African Americans to obtain the same goods as white people, boosting demand.
B. Because it added costs for the delivery of goods, it made more profits for the manufacturers.
^^^^ My Answer
C. Railroad rebates and pools brought down prices for small farmers, who could then afford to modernize their equipment.
D. It opened up national markets for selling and obtaining resources and helped lower costs of production.

5. Which was a major result of the Homestead Act of 1862?
A. increased public awareness of the need for conservation of natural resources
B. increased development of Western lands *** My Answer
C. decreased conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers
D. decreased economic opportunities for easterners

6. Which of the following did the Populist Party believe would solve U.S. economic problems?
A. currency reform *** My Answer
B. savings banks
C. new policies on Native Americans
D. renewed immigration policies

There remains, then, only one mode of using great fortunes…Under its sway we shall have an ideal state, in which the surplus wealth of the few will become, in the best sense, the property of the many, because administered for the common good, and this wealth, passing through the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the elevation of our race than if it had been distributed in small sums to the people themselves. Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts. —Andrew Carnegie, 1889
Use the quote to answer the question.
7. Which idea does this passage express?

A. Manifest Destiny
B. Gospel of Wealth
C. Wealth of Nations *** My Answer/Guess
D. Social Darwinism

8. Which economic practice helps motivate companies to keep prices low and improve product quality?
A. combination
B. consolidation
C. competition *** My Answer
D. overproduction

9. Which was the main reason for the slow growth of labor unions in the United States during the 19th century?
A. presence of language and cultural barriers among workers
B. existence of adequate wages and good working conditions
C. lack of public and legal support for union activities *** My Answer
D. rejection of unionization by skilled workers

My Answers: B , A , B , B , B , A , C , C , C