1st Quarter Benchmark Review LHS

Describe Homestead Act.

• Set families up with a business to run post Civil War

• Gave families 160 acres to farm out west

• Gave Native American's reservation land

• Built homes for people post Civil War

Describe the Transcontinental Railroad.

• connected the East and West Coast for easier trade and travel

• connected the United States and Canada for easier trade and travel

• connected the North and the South for easier trade and travel

• connected the United States and Mexico for easier trade and travel

1. Describe the Dawes Act and its significance on Native Americans.

• it gave Native American's their native lands to hunt on

• it prohibited people from encroaching Native American land

• it broke reservation land up to individual Native American families

• it sent Native American children to boarding schools away from their families

Describe the Compromise of 1877.

• it effectively ended Reconstruction in the South.

• it led to horrible working conditions in factories

• it led to women having the right to vote

• it effectively ended the Civil War

What are Jim Crow laws?

• laws that limit factory workers hours

• laws that limit political machines

• laws that segregated blacks and whites

• laws that segregated Native Americans and whites

What was the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?

• it led to legalized segregation in the South

• it led to integration in the South

• it led to better working conditions

• it led to shorter working hours

What were the problems of the Gilded Age

• fair treatment of workers

• political machines and scandals

• fair treatment of all races

• segregation of public places

Who is Boss Tweed?

• factory owner in the steel industry

• led the political machine in Washington DC

• factory owner in the oil industry

• led the political machine in New York City

Who was Thomas Nast?

• factory owner who treated workers fairly

• political cartoonist who was against and exposed the political machine

• factory owner who treated workers unfairly

• political cartoonist who was for and supported the political machine

How did the Pendleton Act lead to the end of the spoils system?

• it led to better factory conditions and less hours

• it led to worse factory conditions and longer hours

• it allowed government officials to hire their friends and family regardless of ability and experience

• it required government officials to hire individuals who passed civil service tests and met certain criteria