Final Exam Review

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Stamp Act

• Great Plains Act

• Homestead Act

How did new technology, like the lightbulb, affect the United States in the 19th century?

• Long distance travel became cheaper

• Household appliances became more expensive

• Workers could work at night which increased manufacturing efficiency

• It helped produce more airplanes

In the 1900s, nativist feared that Chinese immigrants

• were taking their jobs

• were paying too much in taxes

• were not voting in elections

• were taking too much food

In the 19th century, the United States was transitioning from a ________ to urban society

Native born Americans who were afraid of and had a hatred of immigrants were known as

• Nativists

• Political Bosses

• Miners

• Labor Leaders

What process is being shown by this image?

• Acculturation

• Dissimilation

• Assimilation

• Conversion

The _______ _______ was a period of American history when things looked golden but were really full of corruption

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Grand Era

• Civil War

Which law was passed by nativists in the 1880s?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Immigration Act

• Irish Banishment Act

• Executive Order 9066

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair led to the creation of the...

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Pendleton Act

• Department of Commerce

True or False. Progressive Era reforms led to lasting changes in American society

• True

• False