WEGA Pretest

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Dawes Act

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(b) Homestead Act

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(c) Chinese Exclusion Act

• Natvism

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• 160 acress of free land

• 
• Sent native children to boarding schools

• Population of the West increased

• afraid they were taking the American jobs

• Assimilation of Native Americans

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USHS1877.C.15.a

USHS1877.C.25.b

USHS1877.C.15.c

Which factor contributed MOST to these changes?

• The rising costs of national defense

• Threats posed by immigrant radicals

• Abuses of the spoils system by political machines

• The inefficiency of large corporations

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USHS1877.C.3.a

Organize the reasons for immigration into the correct categories.

Groups:

(a) Push

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(b) Pull

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• Famine

• Homestead Act

• religious freedoms

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• Persecution

• industrial jobs

• War

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USHS1877.C.13.b

Which result completes this diagram?

• Ratification of a suffrage amendment

• Building of the transcontinental railroad

• Passage of prohibition legislation

• Expansion of labor unions

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USHS1877.C.3.b

Which statement describes how the Transcontinental Railroad affected the United States during the late 1800s?

• The railroad contributed to the rapid settlement and growth of towns in the West.

• The railroad caused a rapid decline in agriculture and mining in the West.

• The railroad contributed to population growth and increased sharecropping in the East.

• The railroad prompted Congress to buy land and create national parks in the East.

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USHS1877.C.15.a

Which trend of the late 1800s correctly replaces the question mark in this cause-and-effect diagram?

• The number of immigrants from Europe declined.

• The government passed laissez-faire laws.

• People moved from rural to urban areas

• Settlement houses lost federal funding.

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USHS1877.C.13.a