8th SS Final Exam Review

Manifest Destiny was used to justify an American desire to

• limit the number of immigrants entering the country
• control the area located east of the Appalachian Mountains.
• expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
• warn European countries against colonizing Latin America.

The purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided free federal land, was to

• encourage settlement of the West.
• set up reservations for Native American Indians.
• establish land-grant agricultural colleges.
• assist in the construction of transcontinental railroads.

A major benefit of the transcontinental railroad was that

• fewer buffalo were left on the Plains.
• fewer states entered the Union.
• supplies and mail moved more quickly and cheaply.
• Congress gave loans to railroad companies.

In the late 1800’s, the goal of the federal government’s policy toward Native American Indians was to

• weaken their traditional cultural values.
• grant them full citizenship and civil rights.
• give them the right to make decisions about their own affairs.
• increase the land holdings of western tribes.

The buffalo was important to the way of life of the Plains Indians because it

• kept settlers off the land.
• was the only animal that lived on the Plains.
• could be tamed and ridden by the Indians.
• was used for food, clothing and shelter.

In many ways, the Dawes Act was not a success because

• southern blacks began to settle the Plains.
• Native American Indians believed the land should be shared, not divided into parts.
• it attempted to keep miners off Indian lands.
• farmers needed to earn higher prices for their crops.

The trend toward urbanization in the late 1800s involved

• the growth of rural America due to unsafe conditions in the cities.
• the movement of people from rural areas to the cities.
• a decrease in the metropolitan population.
• a decrease in immigration.

Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan were sometimes called "robber barons" because

• they robbed from the rich and gave to the poor
• they stole money from the government
• they made risky investments
• they used ruthless (cruel, uncaring) business practices

The process of collective bargaining is best described as

• meetings of joint congressional committees to achieve compromise on proposed laws.

• diplomatic strategies used to make treaties between two nations.

• striking for better wages and conditions.

• discussions between labor union leaders and management to agree on a contract for workers.

Which factor most influenced the growth of the U.S. economy between 1865 and 1900?

• development of the sharecropping system
• success of organized labor
• restrictions on immigration
• government’s economic policy of laissez-faire