Unit Test — Cumulative exam

Question 1

In what year was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union formed?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

1874

Question 2

What was one of the weaknesses of the Sherman Antitrust Act that made the law difficult to argue in court?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The law did not adequately define trusts or monopolies.

Question 3

Why was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad v. Illinois case an obstacle to state government reform measures?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The Supreme Court ruled that states cannot regulate interstate railroads.

Question 4

In the 1920s, the danger of buying stock on credit was that if the stock dropped, borrowers

Revolt · Accepted Answer

could not repay loans used to buy the stock.

Question 5

Besides the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Declaration of Rights also served as a model for which document?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the US Bill of Rights

Unit Test — Cumulative exam Answers