US History - Midterm Exam Study Guide

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?

• South Europe
• NE Europe
• SW Europe
• SE Europe

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• Social Darwinism
• Gospel of Wealth

The Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.

• direct voting
• civil service reform
• political machines
• civil labor unions

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

• Interstate Commerece Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontiental Act
• Laissez Faire Act 

Because of the rapid growth of Industrilization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?

• Rural farms
• Urbanzied cities
• Subrebs cities
• El rancho

Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Donald Trump
• Nativists

What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt.  For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.

• Daley
• Grant
• Tilden
• Tweed