Industrialism Review

The Dawes Act succeeded in achieving the goals of assimilating Native Americans into American society as landowners and citizens.

• True

• False

The growth of the population between 1860 and 1910 provided industrialists with a large workforce and also created greater demand for the consumer goods factories produced.

• True

• False

Which amendment declared that no state could deny any person “equal protection of the laws”?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 18

Which amendment banned slavery throughout the entire United States?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

Which amendment declared that the right to vote “shall not be denied…on account of race, color, or previous condition?"

• 12

• 13

• 14

• 15

The Dawes Act attempted to help Native Americans by

• Giving them land for farming

• Reintroducing buffalo in the native lands

• Returning them to their native lands

• Sustaining their previous way of life

What was Reconstruction?

• A plan to strip African Americans of their civil rights

• A plan to revise the Constitution of the US

• A plan to rebuild and reintegrate the South following the Civil War

• A plan to industrialize rural areas of the South

How did railroads encourage western settlement?

• By investing in new technological innovations to help make farming on the Great Plains possible

• By encouraging the federal government to close the frontier

• By advertising and selling land they had received through land grants cheaply

• A. By passing the Homestead Act

When one company in 1890 took control of 90% of oil production, U.S. residents were worried because that company could

• Set low wages for workers

• Set low prices for producers

• Set high wages for consumers

• Set high tariffs for competitors

Increased immigration caused the greatest amount of growth in

• Northern cities

• Great Plains cities

• Northern mining towns

• Great Plains ranching communities