Gilded Age STAAR Review

What was the purpose of the Indian Removal Act?

• To provide land to settlers without payment

• To remove Native Americans from homelands east of the Mississippi River to reservations in the west

• To regulate the railroad and force companies to practice fair business

• To break up Native American tribes by removing tribes from their homelands and make reservations designed to Americanize them

What did the Transcontinental Railroad connect?

• The eastern rail system in the US to the developing western frontier

• The northern and southern parts of the US

• Various Native American reservations

• The major industrial cities in the east to the agricultural areas in the west

What was the Homestead Act?

• A law that regulated the railroad and forced companies to practice fair business

• A federal act to remove Native Americans from their homelands

• An act of Congress that made public lands in the west available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres

• A legal designation for an area of land managed by a Native American tribe

What was the Klondike Gold Rush?

• A migration of American gold miners to Alaska in 1899 after gold was found

• A federal law intended to break up Native American tribes

• A special act of Congress that made public lands available to settlers

• A political party with a platform independent from the 2 major political parties

What is the concept of Laissez-faire?

• The policy that the government should have its "hands off" economics and businesses to stimulate the economy

• The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service

• The shifting of a society from a rural area into one with cities and industries

• A period of social and economic change defined by the development of industries

What does Urbanization refer to?

• The development of industries in a region or country on a wide scale

• The shifting of a society from a rural area into one with cities and industries

• The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service

• A political party with a platform independent from the 2 major political parties

What is the exclusive control over a commodity or service in an effort to make profits?

• Political machine

• Boss Tweed

• Monopoly

• Railroads

What does the term "Political machine" refer to?

• A study of people and population trends

• Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power

• An organization of city and community leaders that manipulate local elections to make money

• A leader of a political machine

Who was Boss Tweed?

• A study of demography

• A term used to describe corruption

• A leader of a political machine

• The name of a political machine

What does "Corruption" mean in the context of power?

• The study of population trends

• An organization that manipulates elections

• A leader of a political machine

• Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power