CTHS Campus Assessment 1- Laying Found, Last West ,Gilded Ag

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and immigration in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed by the United States Government?

• To allow more immigration from other Asian countries.

• because of the fear of job competition by other immigrant groups

• to limit the amount of goods traded with the Chinese.

• because the Transcontinental Railroad had been completed and no there was no need for Chinese immigrants

Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like American farmers. This was an attempt to assimilate the Natives.

• Dawes Act

• Ghost Dance

• Trail of Tears

• Laws Act

True or False?

The railroad industry destroyed the national economy and contributed to the loss of thousands of jobs.

• True

• False

During the 19th and early 20th century, These men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during election?

• political parties

• republican bosses

• political bosses like Boss Tweed

• republican party

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. What was this called?

• geopolitical

• political bosses

• anthropolgy

• philanthropy

Because of the rapid growth of Industrilization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?

• Rural farms

• Urbanzied cities

• Suburb cities

• Far Away

Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these groups of people mostly restricted new immigrants from entering the country. They did not like foreign born immigrants.

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Political Bosses

• Nativists

This is when a group of companies work together to control a certain industry.

• monopoly

• corporation

• trust

• horizontal Integration

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (government jobs in exchange for money) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics