US History Semester 1 Review #1

The transcontinental railroad was mostly built by:

• Chinese and Irish immigrants because they worked for low wages.

• Americans who moved west from large cities in the east.

• Indians

Which was NOT a cause of westward expansion?

• The Homestead Act of 1862

• mining gold and other natural resources

• assimilation of American Indians

• the transcontinental railroad

The process of blending American Indians into the rest of American culture was called:

• expansionism

• gilding

• mechanization

• assimilation

This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

• the telegraph

• the Bessemer Process

• the Model T

• The light bulb

The growth of cities is called:

• assimilation

• ruralization

• mechanization

• urbanization

Workers stick together to fight for better pay and working conditions. This is known as a:

• trust

• union

• monopoly

• industry

Nativists oppose...

• Business regulation
• Immigration
• Capitalism
• Democracy

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Political Corruption

• Laissez Faire

• Monopoly

• Social Darwinism

What statement about tenements was true during the Gilded Age?

• The living conditions of tenements improved greatly

• The number of people living in tenements declined

• Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements

• Tenements were torn down and rebuilt

Involved the stoppage of US mail and required President Cleveland to send in troops to suppress it

• The Great Strike of 1877
• The Haymarket Affair
• The Homestead Strike
• The Pullman Strike