The laissez-faire economic policies of the United States during the nineteenth century led to

• a system of protective tariffs

• the creation of a national bank

• a largely unregulated market for industry

• a decline in immigration to western states

Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the

mid-nineteenth century?

• People moved to cities in search of economic opportunity.

• Farmers began to cultivate land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Native peoples were forcibly relocated to western territories.

• Government officials began to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny.

He was known as a major entrepreneur in the Oil Industry

• John Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbelt 
• Gustavus Swift

Known as the "Master of Steel"

• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Gustavus Swift
• Andrew Carnegie

This group of immigrants was especially discriminated against with an Exclusion Act made in 1882.

• Chinese
• Irish
• Italian
• German

City building and the movement of people to cities.

• Industrialization

• Organization

• Ruralization

• Urbanization

He patented the light bulb

• Edward Drake

• Thomas Edison

• Thomas Hobbes

• Alexander Bell

Which of the following were reasons people were leaving their countries and immigrating to the U.S.

• rising taxes

• Too much food

• Famine

• Religious and Political persecution

• Escaping slavery

This connected the East Coast to the West Coast and allowed for people and goods to be transported much more rapidly across the country

• Highway

• Airways

• Mississippi River

• Transcontinental Railroad

Who patented the telegraph

• Alexander Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Samuel Morris

• Nicolas Tesla