Unit 2 Review: The Rise of the West and Immigration, Urbanization, & Industrialization

Which best describes the Homestead Act?

160 acres of free land if you stay for 5 years

Why did the Mormons move West?

Escape Religious Persecution

Which of the following were former slaves who came West to take advantage of free land?

Exodusters

Which industry did the Interstate Commerce Act most regulate?

Rail Roads

In the 1800s, the economy of the West felt the greatest impact from which of the following?

Transcontinental RR’s

Which groups most contributed to the construction of the railroads?

Chinese and Irish

What had the greatest impact in altering the lifestyle of the plains’ Native Americans?

Destruction of the buffalo

Which of the following best describes the Trail of Tears?

Cherokee were forced to walk 800 miles to inferior lands

This was intended to '“Americanize” Native Americans and encourage them to support the idea of private property?

Daws act

Which of the following best describes Wounded Knee and Sand Creek?

Both examples of US army slaughtering innocent NA women & children

Which of the following was most responsible for ending open-range grazing?

Barbed Wire

What party was founded, in part, to help farmers get out of debt?

Populist party

Why did the Populist Party come to an end?

William Jennings Bryan lost 1898 election, but other parties adopted their ideas

Which of the following best describes the settlement pattern of the US territory?

East to West

How did the Bessemer process revolutionize American industry?

it was a quick method of turning iron ore into steel

Which of the following is an example of social Darwinism in businesses?

Survival of the fittest

What company is an example of a monopoly owned by JD Rockefeller?

Standard oil

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie make his forturne?

Steel

Vertical integration, a business strategy used by Andrew Carnegie, involves?

buy out suppliers that feed you business to cut cost

Which of the following refers to businessmen who used cut-throat business practices dominate an industry?

Robber Baron

In which industry is JP Morgan most known?

Finance and banking

Which of the following would captains of industry, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, tend to support?

Social darwanism

In the last half of the 19th century, all of the following were conditions of rapid growth of cities?

Dirty, Disease, Crowded, Child labor, Ect.

Which best describes the settlement patterns of immigrants at the turn of the century?

Urban → Ethnic community’s (enclaves)

In the late 1890s, specially designed buildings construction to house large numbers of immigrants in New York City were called?

tenement houses

Which best describe sweatshops?

Very low pay and long hours. And employed women and children

Which of the following was a result of nativism?

Chinese exclusion act

The main immigration station in San Francisco was called?

Angel Island

Which of the following means favoring native-born citizens?

Nativism

What is Jane Addams for?

settlement houses (hull houses)

What was the goal of settlement houses?

Charity / aid the urban poor (food, medical care, English, education, ect.)

What does Emma Lazarus recognize in this poem?

immigrants

Which best describes the Gilded Age?

Shiney on the outside (super rich, Increase tech) but hid corruption, child labor, ect.

Who were the targets of political machines (whose votes did they seek to “buy”)?

Immigrants

taking money intended for a city project is known as?

Graft

Which best describes the Pendleton Act?

Gov’t jobs filled by skilled workers (merits)

Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed are examples of?

Political Machines

Labor Union fought for all of the following?

1) increase wages

2) ending child labor

3)better & safer working conditions

How did the Haymakers Square Riot affect the public’s perception of labor unions?

Showed unions could be violent & decrease in public support

The American Federation of Labor, Knights of Labor, and Industrial Workers of the World are examples of?

Labor union

Which two groups faced lower wages than other workers across the country at this time?

Women & children

Which describes when an employee is given a bad reputation by an employer, and no one will hire him/her?

Black listed

Which innovations did Henry Ford implement that changed manufacturing forever?

Moving assembly lines

Which best describes the impact of the auto industry on Michigan?

It is still vital to Michigan economy, but not as it much was

What was the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

To sperate the colonies from Great Britian/England

Why are the principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism found in the Constitution?

To make sure no one person or group gets too much

Which issue most seriously divided the North and South politicians prior to the Civil War?

slavery in territory’s

The Civil war proved that which level of government was supreme?

Federal Government

What did most former slaves become after the Civil War?

Sharecroppers