Unit 5 2022

Who made their money off of the railroad?

• Rockefeller

• Vanderbilt

• Carnegie

• Ford

Why did the businessmen the Gilded Age favor relaxed immigration?

• remembered their heritage

• were advocates of multicultural education

• were supporters of the Temperance Movement

• valued cheap and unskilled labor

What made cities grow the most from 1890-1920?

• immigration

• elevator

• elimination of small pox

• establishment of the suburbs

Cattle ranching and mining were instrumental in the 19th century in getting people to settle

• the south

• the west

• the northeast

• the southeast

The purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862 was

• encourage people to populate US territories west of the Mississippi River.

• provide people with economic incentives to settle in the territory of Florida

• provide free blacks with "40 acres & a mule"

• offer former Confederate officers a place to live in return for their loyalty to the US

Which term BEST describes a "Buffalo Soldier" of the 19th century?

• African-American US Calvary soldiers

• a term for slaves in the American South

• a nickname for the Apache Indians in the American West

• teams of hunters who would slaughter herds of bison for their furs

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was created to

• regulate interstate trade and commerce

• give slaves land in the former Confederate states

• institute the death penalty for crimes against federal officials

• redistribute Indian lands from public to private ownership to help assimilate them into the US population

In 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country?

• Ireland

• China

• Japan

• Mexico

The Ghost Dance helped cause what in 1890

• Little Big Horn

• Red Cloud's War

• Promontory Point

• Wounded Knee Massacre

"New Immigrants" were primarily from

• East Asia

• South America

• Northern Europe

• Southern & Eastern Europe