Wyatt USII B4 Christmas Review I

Poor, crowded, and unhealthy describe:

• Prospecting
• Tenements
• Country life
• A farmer's life

Who became the leader of the steel industry in the U.S.?

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• J.P. Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What did the westward expansion offer for former slaves?

• food
• wealth
• land
• a new beginning and freedom

What is the process in which a group makes 
changes to become
part of the 
mainstream American culture? 

• Conversion
• Acceptance 
• Assimilation 
• Nativism

Which industry contributed to the growth of Chicago?

• Meatpacking
• Steel
• Automobile
• Cotton

Which of the following allowed people to live and thrive in the Great Plains area?

• change in climate 
• new leadership
• new technologies 
• change in the economy 

Windmills provided a way for settlers in the Great Plains to access ______________

• oil 
• water
• sod houses 
• food 

What invention allowed westward settlers to keep cattle from wondering off? 

• sod houses
• barbed wire
• windmills 
• dry farming

The 15th amendment to the Constitution was the last of the "Reconstruction Amendments," and it was ratified in 1870.  What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vot
• 
  to establish a federal income tax
• 
  to give women the right to vote
• to officially end the "Reconstruction Era"

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forced to work for white landowners. 

• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• 14th Amendment