Semester Review Unit 1-2

Belief that saloons would lead to increase crime and disease led to the passage of what?

• Anti-Trust Acts

• Prohibition

• Civil-Service Act

• SEC

The increasing use of public transportation vehicles allowed for

• more people to attend school

• increase in medical services

• greater opportunities for employment

• reduction in state and local spending

Passage of the civil service act was a result of corruption by which group?

• political machines

• members of congress

• immigrants

• robber barons

Which of the following is an example of a push factor for immigrants

• nativism

• escaping violence

• job opportunities

• more land

Which of the following is an example of a pull factor for immigrants

• nativism

• escaping violence

• job opportunities

• famine

Which law led to a rising population in the west?

• Westward Expansion Act

• Civil Service Act

• Pendleton Act

• Homestead Act

The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act was spurred on by what belief?

• Nativism

• Isolationism

• Segregation

• Assimilation

What was a way that the government supported businesses over unions?

• Sending troops to break up strikes

• Union leaders arrested

• Enacting a federal holiday for workers

• Courts siding with business over workers

The Open Door policy was created for what country?

• Japan

• Korea

• England

• China

What was a benefit of electricity and light bulbs for businesses?

• Businesses could work longer hours

• They needed less workers

• They could expand more rapidly

• The first robotics were introduced