AP Flashcards

12558841482	During the Gilded Age, most of the railroad barons	built their railroads with government assistance	0
12558844119	The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing the railroad corporations with.	land grants	1
12558846954	One by-product of the development of the railroads was	The movement of people to cities	2
12558849198	The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years was	the railroad network	3
12558851046	The United States changed to standard time zones when	The major rail lines decreed the division of the continent into four time zones so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks	4
12558855047	Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by	State Legislature	5
12558862434	The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the	Interstate Commerce Commission.	6
12558863792	One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits was	increased competition.	7
12558867531	The first major product of the oil industry was	kerosene	8
12558871322	The oil industry became a huge business	With the invention of the internal combustion engine	9
12559328737	Generally, the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the Constitution in such a way as to favor.	corporations	10
12559335929	______________Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments	14	11
12559348094	The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was primarily used to curb the power of	manufacturing	12
12559373546	During the age of industrialization, the South	remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural.	13
12559502383	The South's major attraction for potential investors was	cheap labor	14
12559512514	One of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of the workers was	the need for them to adjust their lives to the time clock.	15
12559846464	A work place where you must be a member of the labor union to work was known as	the availability of industrial jobs .	16
12559967674	The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880	culturally different from previous immigrants	17
12559975168	Birds of Passage' were..	people who came to America to work for a short period of time and then returned to Europe .	18
12559993117	Most New Immigrants	Tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.	19
12575512566	Carrie Chapman Catt argued that women should be granted the right to vote because	Suffrage was the logical extension of a woman's traditional role in caring for her family.	20
12575546210	By 1900, congressional legislation barred ___________ from immigrating to America.	chinese and contract laborers	21
12575553258	The New Immigrants to America after 1880	-tended to settle in northeastern cities	22
12575643698	The subject of the Eighteenth Amendment was	Prohibition	23
12575649430	One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the	Stresses of urban life.	24
12575662582	The Comstock Law was intended to advance the cause of	Woman suffrage.	25
12575676802	American novel-writing turned from romantic sentimentality to rugged realism as a result of the	Materialism of industrial society.	26
12575685587	In a country hungry for news, American newspapers	became sensationalist	27
12575688314	During the industrial revolution, life expectancy	increased	28
12575699770	In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women		29
12575716517	Black leader Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois	Demanded complete equality for African-Americans.	30
12575725555	The Morrill Act of 1862	Granted public lands to states to support higher education.	31
12575734073	That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of	W. E. B. Du Bois.	32
12575746074	Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African-Americans was		33