Gilded Age Final Review

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to

• promote cultural assimilation of the American Indians

• Turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmland

• End warfare between american Indians and the US military

• promote American Indian investment in private industry

These pictures of the same student at the Carlisle Indian School. Which term best explains the changes shown in the pictures?

• Immigration

• Assimilation

• Nullification

• Nativism

How did the US govt. respond to increased anti-Chinese feelings during the Gilded Age?

• Passing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Passing right to work laws in 1892

• Prohibition companies from hiring Chinese

• Barring Chinese children from attending public schools

How did Andrew Carnegie contribute to the civic and social life in the US?

• By promoting spiritual and moral values in public schools

• By supporting conservative ideals on foreign policy

• By establishing philanthropic organizations dedicated to education and the arts.

• By trying to end hunger by setting up soup kitchens in the cities.

Why did many Americans in the Gilded Age believe in the philosophy of Social Darwinism?

• It proved that evolution was a fact

• It proved laissez faire capitalism was unconstitutional.

• It provided a justification for the extreme wealth and poverty that existed at the time

• It proved the need for the rise in labor unions

After 1880, where did the majority of "New Immigrants " to the US come from ?

• Northern and Western Europe

• Canada and Latin America

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• China and Southeast Asia

The belief that the government should take a "hands off" approach to the economy (non regulation of industries) and that business owners should get to make their own decisions is known as:

• Communism

• Socialism

• Anarchy

• Laissez-faire capitalism

The belief that it was America's fate to settle North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific is known as;

• Manifest Destiny

• Materialsim

• Capitalism

• Nativism

Which of the following was a result of the Transcontinental RR?

• American settlers from Eastern US would take the place of Native Americans and use railroad to transport people and goods

• The area would become an environmental wasteland because of overproduction land abuse.

• The railroad would help Mexican settlers by establishing low prices for transporting farm produce to the West

• The former Indian Territory would quickly sprout huge cities and centers fro mass production in the west.

The Homestead Act of 1862 promoted the development of western lands by

• creating a system of dams for crop irrigation

• providing free land to settlers

• Removing all restrictions on immigration

• Moving Native Americans to reservations.