Unit 3 Test Review

__________________ was a time of rapid economic growth with serious social problems emerging as a result.

• Reconstruction

• The Gilded Age

• The Industrial Revolution

• Age of Enlightenment

Which law did the U.S. government pass to promote the settlement of the West?

• The Pendleton Act

• The Morril Act

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Homestead Act

_____________________ means to force Native Americans to change their cultural practices and adopt American culture and values.

• Assimilation

• Consumerism

• Horizontal integration

• Cultural appropriation

How did farmers organize to meet the economic challenges and hardships of farm life?

• They grew more crops in order to earn more money each season.

• The traveled to each other's farms to help at harvest time.

• They only farmed during winter to conserve scarce water.

• They formed groups like the Grange and Farmers' Alliance to support their way of life.

Increasing the amount of money in circulation to give them more money was a way the ____________ Party wanted to help struggling farmers.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Populist

• Bull Moose

This process made steel cheaper and easier to mass produce and led to the rapid increase in the number of railroads being built in the United States.

• Bessemer Process

• Scientific Management

• Assembly Line

• Horizontal Integration

Which group listed would have been unhappy with the surge in immigration to the United States and would, in fact, have wanted much less immigration?

• Church leaders

• Nativists

• Political Machines

• Capitalists

From which country did the largest group of immigrants to the U.S. come from between 1880-1920?

• China

• Germany

• Italy

• Mexico

Which of these factors contributed to the growth of suburbs?

• the arrival of new immigrants

• Development of mass transit systems

• factory job opportunities

• cheaper housing

How did the city of New York respond to crowded and unsafe housing conditions?

• passed laws requiring running waters, windows in each room, and fire safety measures

• built even more tenements to keep up with the flow of new immigrants

• set new rules requiring elevators in buildings taller than 5 stories

• limited the number of people who could live in each neighborhood