30. Many new immigrants came to the United States A. because they believed social programs would provide them with needed medical care and
educational opportunities.
b.
to escape poverty and religious and political persecution.
to escape prosecution for crimes they committed.
d. to invest in the new booming economy.
31. The cattle boom ended because
a. many herds became infected with Texas fever.
b. American Indians left their reservations and attacked ranchers and killed the cattle.
sheep were more successful on the Great Plains.
d. there were too many cattle and the open-range declined due to barbed wire.
32. free Enterprise system is
a. Both government and citizens are partners in the economy
b. Complete privatization of economy
c. Coalition of government, bankers, and other industrialists.
d. National government regulates the economy
33. Which of the following scandal: did NOT involve President Grant's administration?
Grant's vice president, Schuyler Colfax, and members of Congress accepted bribes to
support the silver standard.
b. Crédit Mobilier's gifts of stock to members of Congress, which resulted in profitable
subsidies for stockholders.
Treasury Department officials accepted bribes from whiskey distillers and distributors.
d. Jay Gould and James Fisk's attempt to comer the gold market.
34. Many Americans attended the theater and enjoyed melodramatic performances in which
the villains were poor immigrants and the heroes were generous nouveau riche.
b. the villains were immigrants and the heroes were nativista
the villains were nativists and the heroes were Americanized immigrants.
d. the villains were wealthy aristocrats and the heroe: were working-class people.
35. Mais transit
a made it practical to build skyscrapers,
b. allowed urban areas to expand far from the central business district.
resulted in a rapid loss of population in the core of cities
d. had little effect on where workers lived because few could afford to regularly travel by
mass transit
36. A group of companiet that controlled by a single group of business leaders in an example of
A. a monopoly
B. Trust
C. vertical integration.
D. communism