Semester One Final Study Guide

What is another name for a Big Business that controls an entire market?

• Nativist

• Political Machine

• Monopoly

• Boss Tweed

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• Letting Chinese in America with open arms
• Banning Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years
• The Europeans taking over China
• Italians Immigrating to China

Which term is used to describe people that have a strong dislike for immigrants?

• Nativism

• Robber Baron

• Muckraker

• Captain of Industry

This group of immigrants was especially discriminated against with an Exclusion Act made in 1882.

• Chinese
• Irish
• Italian
• German

Americans who were anti-immigration due to the fear of losing jobs to immigrants were called-

• Bootlegger

• Monopolies

• Communists

• Nativists

This type of economic system during the Gilded Age allowed for the growth of big business and monopolies-

• Monopolies

• Nativism

• Laissez-faire (hands off)

• New Deal

War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......

• Pull Factors
• Push Factors
• Jump Factors
• Falling Factors

Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political and social equality are all examples of...

• Push Factors
• Pull Factors
• Falling Factors
• Jump Factors

Between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the Century in 1900 what replaced agriculture as the main source of the U.S. economy?

• farming/ranching

• manufacturing/factories

• stock market/bond market

• social media/technology

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.