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Unit 5 Quick Check

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Question 1

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On which of these positions would Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois agree?

African Americans should pursue education as a means of improving their lives.

African Americans should join a labor union to defend their rights as workers.

African Americans should push for immediate social equality with whites.

African Americans should use force to bring an end to the segregation of public facilities.

Question 2

2.

Both the Homestead Act (1862) and the government subsidies for the transcontinental railroad were efforts by the federal government to do what?

Provide affordable housing and transportation to freed slaves

Resolve conflicts with the Native Americans

Encourage settlement west of the Mississippi River

Donate land to poor minority groups

Question 3

3.

Protective tariffs, subsidies for railroads, and open immigration showed that the federal government supported which of the following during the late 1800s?

Organized labor unions

Economic development

Policies of political isolationism

Regulation of unfair business practices

Question 4

4.

Which of the following was a negative effect of mechanized farming during the late 1800s?

Underproduction leading to inflation

Overproduction leading to falling farm prices

Easier farming techniques

Enabled farmers to produce products more efficiently

Question 5

5.

Which of the following groups was most impacted by the influx of immigrants during the Gilded Age?

Political machines controlling the major cities.

Organizations advocating civil rights for African Americans

Organizations created to support women's suffrage

Cooperative groups formed by farmers