U.S History

The Dawes Severalty Act dealt with which group in America?

• Indians (Native Americans)

• Immigrants

• Chinese

• Settlers

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Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

• The Immigrants and the Poor

• The Immigrants and Big Businesses

• The Poor and the Chinese

• The Chinese and the Big Businesses

The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.

• Entrepreneurs

• Nativists

• Philanthropists

• Populists

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Nativists

• Populists

• Philanthropists

• Social Workers

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Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?

• Women and children had to become wage earners

• Women and children became business owners

• Women and children became more educated

• Women and children became leaders of organized labor

The Homestead Act caused a shift in population to move from where to where?

• East Coast to West Coast

• West Coast to East Coast

What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?

• Immigrants

• The Poor

• Indians (Native Americans)

• Former Slaves

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

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Declining wages and a rise unemployment on the west coast led to what piece of legislation?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Pendleton Act of 1883

Roads, skyscrapers, prisons, sewers, schools, railroads, etc, are all examples of what?

• Infrastructure

• Rural Expansion

• Assimilation

• Nativism