USH - Review - Industrialization, Expansion, Business

Enacted during the Civil War, it allowed any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never fought against the U.S. government to claim 160 acres of government land.

• Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Reservation System

Please identify the CORRECT topics that are relevant to the creation of the Native American reservation system.

There are two correct answers.

• Homestead Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Monopolies

• Labor Unions

Please identify the FALSE statement about the Haymarket Riot.

• Seven workers were convicted and executed as anarchists.

• Some saw the riot as justified, and others were scared by it.

• There was a conflict between protestors and police.

• Labor union leaders negotiated higher wages for workers.

Please identify the statement that is BIASED IN FAVOR OF THE WORKERS at the Haymarket Protest.

• The workers at the Haymarket Protest were peaceful, and no one knows who set the bomb off.

• The workers at the Haymarket Protest were responsible for allowing the bomb to go off.

• The police at the Haymarket Protest were only doing their job; the workers should have left peacefully.

The process in which a minority group starts to resemble a dominant group by taking on the values, behaviors, and beliefs of the dominant group.

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Urbanization

• Immigration

The United States government intended to use the Homestead Act as a way to increase population and build an agricultural nation through immigration.

• True

• False

Please identify the CORRECT consequences of immigration and urbanization in the 19th century United States.

There are two (2) correct answers.

• More workers were living in the big cities.

• Less food for the people living in rural America.

• Nativism led to anti-immigrant feelings.

• The U.S. economy experienced inflation.

Supporting the interests of current inhabitants of a society, and actively working against the interests of immigrants to that society.

• Nativism

• Assimilation

• Immigration

• Industrialization

The U.S. government acquired land in the west by peacefully moving Native Americans onto reservations.

• False

• True

Please identify the statement that IS MOST BIASED AGAINST BIG BUSINESS in 19th century America.

• "Robber barons" became wealthy by lying, cheating, and stealing.

• Big business owners became wealthy due to their hard work.

• "Robber barons" also regularly practiced donating money.

• Big business owners created monopolies to grow wealth.