APUSH Period 6

1. Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?

A decrease in tribal autonomy

2. A counterexample to the ideology behind the Dawes Severalty Act would be…

Jim Crow Laws

3. The Dawes Severalty Act most directly reflects which of the following continuities in US History

Debates about national identity

4. Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the demands in this excerpt?

Supporters of the Populist (People’s) Party

5. Which of the following events be efited small farmers in the nineteenth century?

The Munn v. Illinois court case

6. In the second half of the nineteenth century, America’s economy shifted form local and rural to national and industrial. One of the ways railroads aided this change was by…

increasing the consumption of steel

7. All of the following methods contributed to the rise of big business in America EXCEPT

collective bargaining

8. Expanding the money supply became a topic of debate during the Gilded Age for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the government’s outdated bimetal standard

9. Divisions over the currency issue, among others, would lead to the formation of which political party?

the Populist Party

10. People who agreed with the argument for “free silver” would most likely also reccomend which economic stance?

Laws to increase the federal government’s power in the economy

11. The influx of immigrants in the late nineteenth century to citites like New York most directly led to:

the growth in power of urban political machines

12. Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the interests of immigrants

Organizers for national unions

13. Which of the following issues from the mid nineteenth century most clearly parallels the issues surrounding immigration in the late nineteenth century?

Increased nativism connected to irish and german immigration

14. Along with increased immigration, all of the following cultural changes occured in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT

the decline of the middle class

15. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Wabash case directly led to

the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission

16. Economic issues arose again in a later Supreme Court case, In re Debs, which centered on the federal government’s

role in strikebreaking

17. The reasoning expressed in the Supreme Court’s decision most directly reflects which of the following continuities in US history?

debates over the role of government

18. Which of the following features of the South in the late nineteenth century is most clearly illustrated in the photograph?

The limited economic progress of the New South

19. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the South’s post-Civil War economy in the nineteenth century?

Land-owning farmers profited from the crop-lien system

20. Along with the economy, another major issue for the late nineteenth-century South was race relations. The Suprmee Court case Plessy v Ferguson led directly led to

the Great Migration