A theory which states that humans compete for resources and superior individuals or groups evolve

• Assimilation

• Immigration

• Social Darwinism

• Nativism

What term is used to refer to the group that migrated west to escape disenfranchisement and discrimination?

• Native Americans

• Immigrants

• Exodusters

• Hull House

What offered 160 acres of land free to U.S. citizens who would live on and improve the west?

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Constitution

• Assimilation

All of the following describes impacts of Westward Expansion except:

• Many mining towns went bust after only surface minerals were mined

• Industrial Giants underpaid laborers due to overpopulation in the West.

• Native American way of life was destroyed and many tribes were dispersed

• Farmers faced many challenges because of the lack of water and timber

Community Center / Settlement House in Chicago that aimed to assimilate immigrants and lower class

• Boarding School

• Hull House

• Dawes Act

European immigrant processing station where immigrants provided document and received medical care

• Ellis Island

• Tammany Hall

• Hull House

What would be supported by Nativists?

• Ethnic Enclaves

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Tammany Hall

• Americanization Movement

All of the following pieces of legislation was used to assimilated Native Americans except:

• Dawes Act

• Code of Indian Offences

• Pacific Railway Act

• Boarding School Movement

Group that controls urban governments and appealed to immigrants and lower class. 

• Political Party

• Political Machine

• Populist Party

Reformers who fought for social, political, and economic change during the mid to late 1800s

• Political Machines

• Progressives

• Settlement Houses

• Industrial Giants