Westward Expansion & Gilded Age Review

What were some problems of Urbanization?

• Poor living conditions, overcrowding in cities and tenements, and sweathouses.

• Surplus foods, increase of jobs, and no political corruption

• less land grants, less diversity, and more political corruption

• overcrowding in cities, less diversity, and less industrialization

Federal land grants that encouraged settlement to the west (Great Plains) . . .

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Homestead Act

• Philanthropy

What is the goal of the Dawes Act?

• Limit Immigration

• Speed up assimilation for Native Americans

• Give land to Farmers and states

• Speed up the citizenship process

The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group . . .

• Nativism

• Assimilation

• Immigration

• Homogenous

What was the purpose of cattle drives?

• Grant cattle to new settled families

• Transport cattle from Texas to markets in the North

• Bring farmers to help with the development of railroads

Dense population, _______: Sparse population, Southwest USA.

• Northeast USA

• Mountain Time Zone

• Southeast USA

• Midwest USA

Freedom, Economic Opportunities and Prosperity, and Equality are considered . . .

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

Why did many people move to California in 1849 and by the Klondike River in 1896?

• In search of cattle

• In search of laborers

• In search of new houses

• In search of gold

What groups were the main source of labor for railroad companies?

• Russians and Germans

• Chinese and Irish

• Japanese and Irish

• Chinese and French

__________________ is when the strong and talented will naturally rise to the top in business and social situations . . .

• Social Darwinism

• Nativism

• Assimilation

• Monopoly