AMERICAN HISTORY EXAM 2
2025
1.Which statement describes the purpose of Andrew Carnegie's strategy of vertical
integration?
A) It restructured the administrative hierarchy and, in the process, revolutionized
managerial productivity.
B) It placed all aspects of the business, from mining raw materials to marketing and
transporting finished products, under the control of the chief operating officer.
C) It focused on the systemic promotion of immigrants and African Americans who were
working for Carnegie Steel.
D) It concentrated on one aspect of production to the exclusion of all others. -
CORRECT ANS -B
2.Which of these significantly boosted nineteenth-century railroad construction in
America?
A) The transportation demands of homesteaders
B) The deterioration of the National Road
C) Federal restrictions of rates and railroad company competition
D) Land grants from federal and state governments - CORRECT ANS -D
3.How did Morgan achieve his stunning reorganization and consolidation of businesses
in the late nineteenth century?
A) He sometimes formed a community of interest comprised of a handful of directors.
B) He used rebates to put his competition out of business.
C) He sometimes formed holding companies to run his operations.
D) He refused to get involved in the steel industry, which he considered too speculative.
- CORRECT ANS -A
4.In the decade between 1882 and 1892, lynching rose in the South by an
overwhelming 200 percent, with more than 241 black people killed. Lynching was used
as a means of social control to terrorize and intimidate blacks. Which cultural myth was
used to justify and legitimate the practice of white mobs lynching black people?
A) The economic gains of black communities caused poverty in white communities.
B) The Readjusters organized whites to protect Christianity from "racial mixing."
C) The government spent more money on public education for blacks.
D) Black men were a dangerous threat to white women. - CORRECT ANS -D
5.President Grover Cleveland hoped to increase the nation's flagging gold reserves
during the economic depression in the winter of 1894-1895 by
A) asking Americans to contribute whatever gold they had to an important national
cause.
, B) making a deal with a private group of bankers who would buy government bonds with
gold.
C) sending an increasing number of miners to the West in an effort to find new gold
mines.
D) sending the army to Mexico to capture gold mines that the Mexicans could not
exploit because of their lack of technology. - CORRECT ANS -B
6.The Pendleton Act of 1883 established the Civil Service Commission and
A) made an examination a requirement for holding any federal job.
B) placed fifty thousand federal jobs under a merit system that required continuing
education and yearly examinations.
C) made it impossible to remove people in civil service jobs for political reasons.
D) legalized the removal of jobholders with a change of presidential administration. -
CORRECT ANS -C
7.Which statement describes the beliefs of American businessmen who subscribed to
the economic theory of laissez-faire regarding the role of the government in the
economy?
A) It should always intervene in the nation's economic affairs.
B) It should not interfere in economic affairs except to protect private property.
C) Only state governments should intervene in the nation's social and economic affairs.
D) It had the responsibility to foster competition in industry. - CORRECT ANS -B
8.How did Alexander Graham Bell's telephone revolutionize both communications and
business in America?
A) He used a complicated organizational structure in his new company that allowed
both local and cross-country communication.
B) He installed telephones in every office building in New York to facilitate
communications between business and the stock exchange.
C) He sold the rights to his invention to John D. Rockefeller, who put it into national use.
D) He had an instant monopoly on the communications market when he combined
telephone and telegraph services in AT&T. - CORRECT ANS -A
9.How did American women respond to the denial of their right to vote in the late
nineteenth century?
A) They conceded that politics was a man's game and confined themselves to domestic
concerns.
B) They participated in the political process though other movements like temperance.
C) They decided to take up a major role in the behind-the-scenes work of presidential
politics.
D) They turned inward and refused to engage in the political process - CORRECT ANS
-B
10.Which idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late nineteenth
century?
A) Competition led rich Americans to have an unfair advantage over the poor.
2025
1.Which statement describes the purpose of Andrew Carnegie's strategy of vertical
integration?
A) It restructured the administrative hierarchy and, in the process, revolutionized
managerial productivity.
B) It placed all aspects of the business, from mining raw materials to marketing and
transporting finished products, under the control of the chief operating officer.
C) It focused on the systemic promotion of immigrants and African Americans who were
working for Carnegie Steel.
D) It concentrated on one aspect of production to the exclusion of all others. -
CORRECT ANS -B
2.Which of these significantly boosted nineteenth-century railroad construction in
America?
A) The transportation demands of homesteaders
B) The deterioration of the National Road
C) Federal restrictions of rates and railroad company competition
D) Land grants from federal and state governments - CORRECT ANS -D
3.How did Morgan achieve his stunning reorganization and consolidation of businesses
in the late nineteenth century?
A) He sometimes formed a community of interest comprised of a handful of directors.
B) He used rebates to put his competition out of business.
C) He sometimes formed holding companies to run his operations.
D) He refused to get involved in the steel industry, which he considered too speculative.
- CORRECT ANS -A
4.In the decade between 1882 and 1892, lynching rose in the South by an
overwhelming 200 percent, with more than 241 black people killed. Lynching was used
as a means of social control to terrorize and intimidate blacks. Which cultural myth was
used to justify and legitimate the practice of white mobs lynching black people?
A) The economic gains of black communities caused poverty in white communities.
B) The Readjusters organized whites to protect Christianity from "racial mixing."
C) The government spent more money on public education for blacks.
D) Black men were a dangerous threat to white women. - CORRECT ANS -D
5.President Grover Cleveland hoped to increase the nation's flagging gold reserves
during the economic depression in the winter of 1894-1895 by
A) asking Americans to contribute whatever gold they had to an important national
cause.
, B) making a deal with a private group of bankers who would buy government bonds with
gold.
C) sending an increasing number of miners to the West in an effort to find new gold
mines.
D) sending the army to Mexico to capture gold mines that the Mexicans could not
exploit because of their lack of technology. - CORRECT ANS -B
6.The Pendleton Act of 1883 established the Civil Service Commission and
A) made an examination a requirement for holding any federal job.
B) placed fifty thousand federal jobs under a merit system that required continuing
education and yearly examinations.
C) made it impossible to remove people in civil service jobs for political reasons.
D) legalized the removal of jobholders with a change of presidential administration. -
CORRECT ANS -C
7.Which statement describes the beliefs of American businessmen who subscribed to
the economic theory of laissez-faire regarding the role of the government in the
economy?
A) It should always intervene in the nation's economic affairs.
B) It should not interfere in economic affairs except to protect private property.
C) Only state governments should intervene in the nation's social and economic affairs.
D) It had the responsibility to foster competition in industry. - CORRECT ANS -B
8.How did Alexander Graham Bell's telephone revolutionize both communications and
business in America?
A) He used a complicated organizational structure in his new company that allowed
both local and cross-country communication.
B) He installed telephones in every office building in New York to facilitate
communications between business and the stock exchange.
C) He sold the rights to his invention to John D. Rockefeller, who put it into national use.
D) He had an instant monopoly on the communications market when he combined
telephone and telegraph services in AT&T. - CORRECT ANS -A
9.How did American women respond to the denial of their right to vote in the late
nineteenth century?
A) They conceded that politics was a man's game and confined themselves to domestic
concerns.
B) They participated in the political process though other movements like temperance.
C) They decided to take up a major role in the behind-the-scenes work of presidential
politics.
D) They turned inward and refused to engage in the political process - CORRECT ANS
-B
10.Which idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late nineteenth
century?
A) Competition led rich Americans to have an unfair advantage over the poor.
