Unit 1 Test Review

Who provided land grants to railroad companies?

• the Native Americans

• the French

• the U.S. government

• nobody--the railroads had to pay for all their land

Which of the following is a way new technology helped cause national growth in the late 1800s and early 1900s? (select all that apply)

• Steam machinery made farmers' lives easier

• Immigrants came to the U.S. to work in factories

• They came up with a new way to make steel, which they used to build the railroads

• They used the railroads to ship goods across the U.S.

• The telegraph and telephone made long distance communication easier

True or False: The railroads helped different regions of the U.S. specialize in one kind of product

• True

• False

True or False: The railroads made different regions of the United States rely on each other for certain products.

• True

• False

True or False: Most railroad workers got paid very well.

• True

• False

True or False: It was expensive for farmers to ship their goods on the railroads, and the government did not help regulate prices.

• True

• False

True or False: The government protected Native American land in the West.

• True

• False

Select all of the reasons African Americans moved West from the South in the late 1800s.

• To escape slavery

• To escape racism and discrimination

• To find better economic opportunities than what they had in the South

Which of the following terms means the process by which the US government tried to make Native Americans fit into the dominant American culture of the white people?

• Assimilation

• Arbitration

• Victimization

• Realization

Select all of the ways the U.S. government tried to assimilate (Americanize) the Native Americans?

• By putting them in special schools where they had to give up their culture

• By breaking up tribal lands and giving portions to individual families for farming

• By forcing them to marry white children