US History 1st 6 wks review

What invention allowed longer working hours

• telephone

• typewriter

• light bulb

• dishwasher

Big Business, Westward Expansion, bad working conditions, political machines, and immigration were issues of what time period in the U.S

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Building an Empire

• Civil Rights and the 60's

Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

Economic, political, and social events within a period of time is a-

• Historical Era

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Hysterical Period

____________________ gained power by providing immigrants with services.

• Political Machines

• Big Business

• Labor Unions

• Andrew Carnegie

The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?

• Rural areas to Urban areas

• Urban areas to Rural areas

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Nativists

• Populists

• Philanthropists

• Social Workers

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Declining wages and a rise unemployment on the west coast led to what piece of legislation?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Pendleton Act of 1883

Which of the following was NOT a problem labor unions fought for?

• shorter hours
• lower pay
• no child labor
• safer working conditions

What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families and led to assimilation of natives?

• Hayes Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Bland-Allison Act
• Dawes Act