Why did the government want the Transcontinental Railroad built?

• To move prisoners west

• To encourage westward expansion

• To defeat Mexico

• To make peace with the Native Americans

What act motivated many people to move out to Kansas?

• Jayhawker Act

• Homestead Act

• Free Land Act

• Indian Removal Act

• U-Boat
• Z-Boat
• Q Ship
• Woodrow Wilson's Private Yacht

____________+____________=yellow journalism

• newspaper competition, sensationalism
• muckrakers, big business
• Reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws

Opened government jobs to competitive exams rather than political connections.

• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Pendleton Civil Service Act
• The Forgettable Presidents

President shot and killed because of the spoils system

• Garfield
• Grant
• Johnson
• Hayes

Causes

• Immigration to rural areas
• Immigration to urban areas
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Lack of industrialization

What was one reason for the expansion of machine politics in the late nineteenth century ?

• The rapid influx of immigrant made it difficult for local governments to provide basic services.

• Federal restrictions prevented voters from influencing government decisions at the local level.

• The economy was too tightly regulated to allow urban growth.

• Settlement houses failed to help immigrants adjust to life in the city.

Concerns of Populist Demands in the Late 1800s

Regulation of railroad shipping charges

A graduated income tax

Free and unlimited coinage of silver

These demands most reflected the concerns of?

• small farmers in need of affordable credit

• robber barons pursuing higher profits

• prominent bankers who controlled the money supply

• immigrant workers seeking economic justice

protectors of our industry, 1883

which message is being conveyed by the cartoon?

• Industrialist were experiencing more difficulty than the laborers.

• The government imposed improved labor standards.

• The labor force should have found other employement

• The wealthy were dependent on the labor of the working class.