U.S. History Midterm Practice Test Essay Example
APUSH MIDTERM PRACTICE TEST
MR. MANGAN
GABE BLUM
1) Some big businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie vertically integrated their corporations by
a) eliminating middlemen to control every aspect of production
b) buying out all competing firms to monopolize a single product
c) inflating the price of their own stock
d) issuing uncompetitive rebates
e) paying workers less so that they earn extra money for themselves
2) Why was there a larger problem with the new immigrants than with the old immigrants (especially in the lower class)?
a) the old immigrants kept to themselves in “towns” that they created to imitate their old country
b) the new immigrants went on strike very often
c) the new immigrants were much richer than the old, and competed with the upper-middle class
d) the old immigrants were more efficient workers
e) the new immigrants were so numerous that they could easily break a strike by getting employed
3) What is the concept of deism?
a) there is a superhuman God and he is the supreme ruler
b) God is in the form of nature such as rocks and trees
c) the Earth was created by a superhuman, but there is no divine God today
d) there simply is no such thing as a God
e) God rules through a select group of people
4) Why did Britain pass the Navigation Acts?
a) to tax American ships and control their paths
b) to steal money from places in West Africa at the expense of America
c) to get a large share of the tobacco coming out of America
d) to force the passengers of ships that they caught to become Protestant
e) to challenge the French to see whose sister country exports the most goods
5) Who was Cotton Mather?
a) a witch in the Salem Witch Trials
b) a devout Puritan who had nothing to do with the Salem Witch Trials
c) the man that laid the groundwork for the Salem Witch Trials
d) the founder of Salem
e) The Puritan leader of Salem at the time of the Salem Witch Trials
6) In
MR. MANGAN
GABE BLUM
1) Some big businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie vertically integrated their corporations by
a) eliminating middlemen to control every aspect of production
b) buying out all competing firms to monopolize a single product
c) inflating the price of their own stock
d) issuing uncompetitive rebates
e) paying workers less so that they earn extra money for themselves
2) Why was there a larger problem with the new immigrants than with the old immigrants (especially in the lower class)?
a) the old immigrants kept to themselves in “towns” that they created to imitate their old country
b) the new immigrants went on strike very often
c) the new immigrants were much richer than the old, and competed with the upper-middle class
d) the old immigrants were more efficient workers
e) the new immigrants were so numerous that they could easily break a strike by getting employed
3) What is the concept of deism?
a) there is a superhuman God and he is the supreme ruler
b) God is in the form of nature such as rocks and trees
c) the Earth was created by a superhuman, but there is no divine God today
d) there simply is no such thing as a God
e) God rules through a select group of people
4) Why did Britain pass the Navigation Acts?
a) to tax American ships and control their paths
b) to steal money from places in West Africa at the expense of America
c) to get a large share of the tobacco coming out of America
d) to force the passengers of ships that they caught to become Protestant
e) to challenge the French to see whose sister country exports the most goods
5) Who was Cotton Mather?
a) a witch in the Salem Witch Trials
b) a devout Puritan who had nothing to do with the Salem Witch Trials
c) the man that laid the groundwork for the Salem Witch Trials
d) the founder of Salem
e) The Puritan leader of Salem at the time of the Salem Witch Trials
6) In