Unit 1 Social Studies

This act was passed in 1862 to help encourage Americans to move out west by offering them 160 acres of free land in exchange for living on it and settling it for five years.

• Pacific Railroad Act

• Homestead Act

• Freeland Act

• Indian Removal Act

The 18th amendment was made in 1919 created _____________.

• Sufferage

• Higher Education

• Public Libraries

• Prohibition

The people who were concerned by the growing gap between the rich and the poor were called __________.

• muckrakers

• women

• men

• progressives

The 19th Amendment gave who the right to vote in a national election.

• men

• African Americans

• women

• immigrants

A ___________ is when workers refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet their demands.

• union

• strike

• work day

• Labor Day

Whose company came to rule the American Steel industry?

• J.P Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

A _______________ is a business that completely controls an industry.

• union

• trust

• monopoly

• strike

Inventions such as the electric lights and telephones were considered to be in the ________________.

• Iron Age

• Gilded Age

• Light Age

• Copper Age

This was the idea that the U.S. had the God-given right to take over North America.

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Expansion

• Homestead Act

• Trail of Tears

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed from each direction and met at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869.

• True

• False