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The most effective way of defeating the Native Americans was to kill the buffalo

• True
• False

Tammany Hall was home to the political machine in New York City

• True

• False

What is a gift or land from the government called?

• Dawes Act
• Pendleton Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Federal land grant

The Homestead Act is an example of a federal land grant

• True
• False

Which issue was discussed in the writings of Jacob Riis?

• Discrimination against African Americans in US cities

• Growing conflict between rural regions and US cities

• Increasing efforts to reduce Chinese immigration to US cities

• Harsh conditions of tenement housing in US cities

The Populist Party wanted to regulate the railroad and end laissez-faire policies

• True
• False

Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?

• Small, family-owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations
• Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power
• The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation
• In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry

Which act passed by the US government allowed them to dissolve monopolies?

• Homestead Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Dawes Act

This cover from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from —

• a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one
• a slave-owning society to one without society
• a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism
• a direct democracy to a representative one

A large labor supply, an abundance of natural resources, and the construction of the new railroads during the late 1800s contributed most directly to:

• Rejection of high tariffs by the United States
• Demands for limits on immigration
• Dependence of imported goods
• Growth of American industry