LEAP Review Quiz #1 Gilded Age- Industrialization

The map shows the lines of the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1800s. Use the map to determine the major objectives of these railroad lines. (Choose 2)

• to join the Midwestern states with the states of the Far West

• to connect several Rocky Mountain states

• to connect the East Coast with the Midwest

• to improve relations with Mexico by establishing railroad connections there

• to connect the Great Lakes region with the Gulf of Mexico

A government program that offered free land to potential settlers if they stayed and farmed land in the Midwest for 5 years.

• Manifest Destiny

• The Dawes Act

• The Gold Rush

• The Homestead Act

What factor did Carlisle Indian School and the Dawes Act share?

• Purpose - both were the federal government's attempt at forced assimilation of the Native Americans

• Place - both occurred in the northeastern United States

• People - both were created by the nativist, Carlisle Dawes

• All of these are factors shared

Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act did what?

• closed America to Chinese immigrants for the next ten years
• welcomed more Chinese immigrants to America to perform hard work
• allowed Chinese immigrants, but only under a very strict set of rules
• closed America to Chinese immigrants for three years then allowed a few at a time

complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition

• Robber Barons
• Bessemer Process
• Monopoly
• Philanthropy

Scottish immigrant made his fortune in steelmaking, known for “Gospel of Wealth”

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Samuel Gompers
• Thomas Edison

process which made steel more affordable and profitable

• Gospel of Wealth
• Bessemer Process
• Smelting
• Monopoly

theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market

• Cul-de-sac
• Laissez-Faire
• Fleur de Lis
• Achtung

organized workers to act as a group not as an individual to leverage for better working conditions

• Union
• Robber Barons
• Captains of Industry
• Knights of Labor

Economic philosophy based on "Survival of the fittest"

• Social Darwinism
• National Market
• Knights of Labor
• Free Enterprise System