US History Unit 5 Review(Standards 11-14)

The Transcontinental railroad allowed goods and people to move west across the United States but also settlers and pioneers moving West tended to displace these people.

• Slaves

• Native American

• Asian Americans

• The French

This person's invention allowed for instant communication across the United States using a code in a machine called the telegraph.

• Samuel Morse

• Alexander Graham Bell

• John Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

Jane Addams Hull House was created to help which group of people living in cities.

• Immigrants and women who were urban poor.

• Asian Americans

• Black Americans

• Native Americans

These progressive journalists worked to uncover corruption and injustices in society.

• Muckrakers

• Dollyhammers

• Union Workers

• Chinese Immigrants

The main job of muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Ida b Wells were to

• Make excuses for the rich

• Teach immigrants English

• Investigate and expose corruption

• Plan a revolution

What were companies no longer allowed to do as a result of Ida tarbell's investigations?

• Spend money

• Create monopolies

• Cheat people out of their money

• Falsely advertise

Plessy versus Ferguson led to the enactment of Jim Crow laws which were meant to do what?

• Make life better for immigrants

• Provide jobs for Europeans

• Segregate black and white Americans

• Allow new methods of farming

These workers were often given the hardest jobs and paid less while building the transcontinental Central Pacific railroad.

• Black Americans

• Chinese immigrants

• Uneducated workers

• Native Americans

Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe often arrived in New York City bearing different languages and religious practices as they went through which island processing center to be granted US citizenship.

• Snake Island

• Jones Island

• Long Island

• Ellis Island

Upton Sinclair's muckraking journalism led to reforms in which industry?

• Oil

• Cotton

• Healthcare

• Meat packing