Westward Expansion/Gilded Age Review!

What allowed for settlement of the West, easier transportation of goods and brought relief to over crowded cities in the East?

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Oregon Trail

What is the post Civil War advancement of technology leading to cheaper and higher quality resources?

Hint: It helped build cities UP!

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Bessemer Steel Process

• The Pullman Train car

• The Cattle Drive

Low wages, Long working hours, poor conditions and required mediation of labor disputes led to the creation of _____________.

What invention from Thomas Edison led to safe working conditions and also led to workers working in dark hours?

• The Cotton Mill

• Lightning

• McQueen

• The Lightbulb

What is the monetary standard where the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold?

Hint: It benefitted the wealthy

• Big Money

• Bimetallism

• Gold Standard
• Silver Standard

Name the democrat who defended populist ideas and gave the infamous "Cross of Gold" Speech in the 1896
election.

• William Jennings Bryan

• William Wallace

• William McKinley

• William Shakespeare

A political party that focused on the "common man" and fought for women's suffrage, regulations on business and direct representation in government.

How did the government's Laissez-Faire attitude toward business effect American Society?

• It led to the Great Depression

• Competition between businesses grew

• Monopolies and trusts formed leaving competition nonexistent.

• The government immedialtey saw their mistake

The first law restricting Chinese immigration into the US for 10 years and later extended until 1943.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Immigration Quota

The name of an individual who preferred "Native-born" Americans and believed immigrants were stealing American jobs.