Westward Expansion and The Gilded Age Vocabulary Quiz 1

The moral responsibility of the rich to tackle wealth inequality by giving their surplus wealth to those who were less fortunate.

• Gospel of Charity

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Gospel

• Gold Rush

Homestead Act

• Granted 160 acres to a family if they agreed to live on it, grow crops, and make improvements.

• Granted 40 acres and a mule to Native Americans on a reservation territory

• Established homes for Native Americans east of the Mississippi

• Removed Native Americans from their homes to make them farmers.

Passed in 1887, this act offered Native American families the chance to become farmers, ultimately ultimately breaking up their tribal culture.

• Homestead Act

• American Indian Citizenship Act

• Dawes Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Banned Chinese immigrants from working on railroads

• Kept Chinese immigrants out of schools for only white children

• Banned anyone immigrating from China to the US

• Kept Chinese families in certain pockets of immigrant cities

Towards the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, vast numbers of people began to move to cities for better opportunities for work and success.

• Urbanization

• Metropolizing

• City Migration

• The Great Migration

Tenements were often deluxe apartments offering relief for rising middle class families.

• True

• False

Corrupt politicians and their followers that did favors for people in return for their votes to help keep them in office.

• Voter Fraud

• Push-and-Pull Factors

• House Party

• Political Machines

The process by which people become citizens of another country is known as Immigration.

• True

• False

Civil war in one's country or better employment opportunities in another country inspiring one to seek a new home elsewhere are examples of what phenomenon?

• Immigration

• Up and Down Economics

• Push and Pull Factors

• Assimilation

Ghettos are slums that are mostly, if not solely, occupied by impoverished minority groups.

• True

• False