U.S. History - Semester 1 Review

With which of the following statements would a nativist agree?

• “Immigrants must search for opportunity in the United States.”

• “Immigrants help to make this country a better place to live.”

• “Immigrants need to help each other adapt to life in the United States.”

• “Immigrants steal jobs from people who were born in this country.”

A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law is a

• primary.

• referendum.

• recall.

• initiative.

Which of the following was NOT a government or business leader of the Gilded Age?

• William Howard Taft

• Booker T. Washington

• Andrew Carnegie

• JohnD. Rockefeller

What was the first duty of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• to help southern states form new governments

• to return former slaves to their masters

• to provide emergency relief to people displaced by the war

• to write the oath of loyalty to the United States and the Constitution

Why was the process of rebuilding the South called Radical Reconstruction?

• It followed Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction.

• It followed Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction.

• It was the “hard” policy demanded by some members of Congress.

• It gave Democrats who wanted “soft” Reconstruction more power in Congress.

John Chivington's attack on the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes camped outside of Fort Lyon is known as

• the Wounded Knee Massacre.

• the Sand Creek Massacre.

• the Battle of Little Big Horn.

• the Red River War.

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.

• offered free land to those willing to farm it.

• offered land to gold prospectors.

• promised protection from Native Americans.

Which of the following best explains the link between urbanization and increased immigration to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century?

• Many immigrants settled in cities because of the job opportunities provided by urbanization.

• Most immigrants did not settle in cities because they could not adjust to urban life.

• Cities were so overcrowded that immigrants returned to their homeland.

• Immigrants did not look for work in urban centers.

Theodore Roosevelt’s nickname for reform journalists and novelists was

• "recorders."

• "muckrakers."

• "reformers."

• "progressives."

According to critics, how did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust affect the free enterprise system?

• It encouraged private citizens to own their own businesses.

• It made it difficult for new companies to compete.

• It drove up production costs for manufactured goods.

• It let business owners decide what products to make.