Gilded Age America review

Settlers and adventurers began arriving in large numbers to Alaska and western Canada in the late 1800s after...

• the admission of Alaska as a new state

• the discovery of gold in the Klondike region

• the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

• the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage

One result of the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 was...

• a rush to grab free land in the Great Plains

• an influx of Chinese immigrants to California

• the building of large urban centers in the West

• the creation of Indian reservations in Oklahoma

The issue of unemployment and declining wages in California led to which of the legislative actions?

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

During the Gilded Age, where did most "New Immigrants" come from?

• Northern and Western Europe

• Canada and Latin America

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• China and Southeast Asia

Nativists in California would have supported...

• creation of settlement houses to help immigrants

• passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

• continuation of the contract labor system

• assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream culture

Which statement is true about development in the Great Plains in the 1800s?

• Railroads were not important at all

• American Indians were left alone and kept their lands

• Great profits were made in the steel industry

• New technology made farming there possible

How did passage of the Dawes Act affect Native Americans?

• it supported their existing cultural traditions

• it started a series of Indian Wars on the Great Plains

• it tried to assimilate them into mainstream American culture

• it forced their removal to areas west of the Mississippi River

How did political machines gain power in the Gilded Age?

• receiving financial support from big business

• providing services to immigrants and the poor in return for votes

• obtaining authority by state legislative policies

• operating without most of the public's knowledge

What impact did the Transcontinental Railroad have on the western frontier in the late 1800s?

• protecting buffalo herds and Native American lands

• destruction of the buffalo and opening the Plains to white settlement

• greater cooperation by Indians and cattlemen against farmers

• it transported thousands of gold miners to California

Which of the following was encouraged by the army because it weakened the Plains Indians' ability to resist?

• farming

• ranching

• buffalo hunting

• mining