US History Unit 3 Exam Review

“I am tired of fighting…Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I shall fight no more forever!

-Chief Joseph, 1877

In this statement, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce expressed his reluctant acceptance of a government policy of

• placing Plains’ Indians tribes on reservations.

• requiring Plains’ Indians to settle west of the Mississippi.

• granting immediate citizenship to Plains Indians’

• forcing Plains Indians’ to assimilate into American culture

Which of the following inventions was not an improvement on U.S. infrastructure during the late 1800’s?

• Telegraph

• Cotton Gin

• Telephone

• Electric lightbulb

“Mr. Rockefeller… had worked out a well-conceived plan for a controlling the oil business of the United States.”

Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell’s efforts to expose Rockefeller’s business practices are evidence that she was a(n)

• abolitionist

• muckraker

• communist

• Radical Republican

Which development had the greatest impact of territorial growth, economic growth, industrial growth during the years after the Civil War?

• Canals

• Railroads

• Airplanes

• Telephones

· Escape from religious persecution

· Hope for freedom and equality

· Hope for better economic conditions

· Escape from political turmoil and war

What do all of the above have in common?

• Goals of U.S. Naturalization policies

• Objectives of the Second Great Awakening

• Reasons for immigrating to the United States

• Principles of the Sons of Liberty

John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and Andrew Carnegie’s steel company were examples of

• government privatization of essential resources

• the public benefiting from business leaders that reformed domestic industries

• the rise of trusts and monopolies

• the impact of labor leaders on government

Muckrakers contributed to the rise of Progressivism in the early years of the 20th century by

• challenging big government and urging a return to past conditions

• exposing widespread corruption in business and government

• writing favorable biographies about wealthy Americans

• aligning themselves with the women’s suffrage movement

“While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”

Source: Wealth and its Uses

Which of the following would have supported the quote above

• Union leaders such as Samuel Gompers and Eugen V. Debs

• Business owners such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

• Presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

• Progressives such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair

Which of the following had the greatest impact on the economy, politics and culture of the United States during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?

• Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe

• Immigrants from South Africa and Asia

• Immigrants from Canada and Mexico

• Immigrants from Western and Northern Europe

In a United States history textbook, the terms The Spanish-American War, Roosevelt Corollary, and the building of the Panama Canal would most likely be found in a chapter entitled

• Reconstruction (1865–1877)

• Industrialization (1870–1900)

• American Expansionism (1898–1905)

• Progressive (1900–1917)