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Westward Expansion, A New Industrial Age, Immigration, Urbanization Test
- 1.During the late 1800s and early 1900s, millions of people immigrated to the United States. Identify and explain several reasons people left their homelands to move to the United States. Think About: - conditions in homelands - opportunities in the United States
- 2.The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called
- A.
Ellis Island.
- B.
Tammany Hall.
- C.
Angel Island.
- D.
Hull House.
- 3.The main goal of the Americanization movement was to
- A.
Limit the number of immigrants entering the country.
- B.
Assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture.
- C.
Improve the living conditions in America's largest cities.
- D.
Encourage people to move from the country to the city.
- 4.The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called
- A.
Nativism.
- B.
Civil service.
- C.
Gentlemen's agreement.
- D.
Graft.
- 5.An example of patronage would be
- A.
Bribing a government official.
- B.
Assassinating a public official.
- C.
Saying one thing and doing another.
- D.
Appointing a friend to a political position.
- 6.The Pendleton Civil Service Act required
- A.
Applicants for government jobs to pass examinations.
- B.
Native-born Americans to treat immigrants with courtesy.
- C.
Government workers to renounce all party loyalties.
- D.
Cities to provide services such as clean water to their residents.
- 7.
- A.
Electricity
- B.
Steel beams
- C.
Railroads
- D.
The telephone
- 8.The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
- A.
Decrease Chinese immigration.
- B.
Create segregated classrooms.
- C.
Settle a disagreement between China and the United States.
- D.
Stop Chinese Americans from attending school in the United States.
- 9.Tammany Hall was the name of
- A.
A famous settlement house
- B.
A New York Customs House.
- C.
A New York City political machine.
- D.
The federal courthouse in New York City.
- 10.The row house was a new type of housing that conserved space by
- A.
Rising ten or more stories high.
- B.
Combining air vents with trash disposal areas.
- C.
Sharing side walls with other buildings.
- D.
Enclosing a park shared by several buildings.
- 11.Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by
- A.
New immigrants.
- B.
Social reformers.
- C.
Political machines.
- D.
Industrial workers.
- 12.The Stalwarts were strong supporters of
- A.
Low tariffs.
- B.
High tariffs.
- C.
The spoils system.
- D.
Civil service reform.
- 13.
- A.
Electricity
- B.
Steel beams
- C.
Railroads
- D.
The telephone
- 14.
- A.
It had one main industry.
- B.
It specialized in a regional product.
- C.
It owed its prosperity to the railroads.
- D.
It was built by a company to house its workers.
- 15.
- A.
Hard work
- B.
Industrialization
- C.
Government regulation
- D.
The accumulation of wealth
- 16.
- A.
Haymarket Square
- B.
The Pullman factory
- C.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
- D.
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Plant
- 17.Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
- A.
They were socialists.
- B.
They were federal troops.
- C.
They were part of management.
- D.
They were workers used to break strikes.
- 18.
- A.
Cheap electric power
- B.
Fire safety standards
- C.
The invention of the elevator
- D.
New methods of making steel
- 19.
- A.
Corruption
- B.
Monopolies
- C.
Competition
- D.
Interstate commerce interstate commerce interstate commerce
- 20.
- A.
Radical unionists and socialists
- B.
Female workers in the dressmaking trade
- C.
Railroad workers, both skilled and unskilled
- D.
African-American workers, both skilled and unskilled
- 21.
- A.
The imprisonment of company officials
- B.
The passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act
- C.
The adoption of equal wages for men and women
- D.
Changes in local labor laws for women and children
- 22.
- A.
To build new railroads
- B.
To destroy the railroad industry
- C.
To lower excessive railroad rates
- D.
To increase the power of railroads
- 23.
- A.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie
- B.
The death of Sitting Bull
- C.
The Sand Creek Massacre
- D.
The massacre at Wounded Knee
- 24.
- A.
White settlers began wanting the land on the Plains.
- B.
Native Americans refused to remain on the Plains.
- C.
Native American populations decreased and needed less land.
- D.
The Plains failed to meet the needs of Native American peoples.
- 25.
- A.
European immigrants who settled on the Great Plains
- B.
Plains Indians forced onto reservations in the 1800s
- C.
Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains
- D.
Cowboys who worked long drives in the summer and odd jobs in the winter
- 26.
- A.
The land was too difficult to farm.
- B.
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
- C.
Most of it was taken by people seeking profits.
- D.
The government put too many restrictions on its use.
- 27.
- A.
The railroad
- B.
Barbed wire
- C.
Sheep ranching
- D.
Bonanza farming
- 28.
- A.
It would put more money in circulation.
- B.
It would make the nation's money supply safer.
- C.
It would lower the prices of seed and farm machinery.
- D.
It would allow them to profit from the mineral rights on their land.
- 29.
- A.
Inflation
- B.
Falling prices
- C.
A tight money supply
- D.
A shrinking supply of farm land
- 30.
- A.
The Panic of 1893
- B.
The founding of the Grange
- C.
The "Cross of Gold" speech
- D.
The election of William McKinley
- 31.Invented the typewriter
- A.
Thomas Alva Edison
- B.
Christopher Sholes
- C.
Edwin L. Drake
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