MC Chapter 22-24

Test 1/30

Carnegies’s Gospel of wealth was about

philanthropy

In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored

(A) northern industrial interests

(B) southern agricultural interests

(C) the interests of laborers

(D) inflationary currency policies

(E) woman suffrage

A

“Competition is a law of nature . . . and can no more be done away with than gravitation. . . . [I]f we do not like

survival of the fittest, we have only one possible alternative, survival of the unfittest. The former is the law of

civilization, the latter is the law of anti-civilization.”

The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?

(A) Dialectical materialism

(B) Utopian socialism

(C) Social Darwinism

(D) Transcendentalism

(E) Existentialism

C

“Another marked characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon is what may be called an instinct or genius for colonizing. His

unequaled energy, his indomitable perseverance, and his personal independence, made him a pioneer. He excels all

others in pushing his way into new countries.”

Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most accurately described as

(A) transcendentalists

(B) Populists

(C) scientific managers

(D) Social Darwinists

(E) Mugwumps

D

The method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process that

(A) relied on the use of power-driven machinery

(B) utilized wireless communications to improve efficiency

(C) gave workers greater autonomy, less supervision, and the chance to be creative

(D) relied on guilds to train artisans

(E) promoted more cooperation between labor unions and factory owners

D

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the

following?

(A) Strengthened the position of big business.

(B) Strengthened the regulatory powers of the federal government.

(C) Strengthened the position of organized labor.

(D) Protected the civil and political rights of African Americans.

(E) Protected the civil and political rights of women.

A