EOC Quiz 1 (Gilded Age)

Use the information in the song and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.

“ We mean to make things over, we are tired of toil for naught, with but bare enough to live upon, and never an hour for thought; We want to feel the sunshine, and we want to smell the flower, we are sure that God has will’d it, and we mean to have eight hours. We’re summoning our forces from the shipyard, shop and mill, Chorus.  Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!  Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will!

I.G. Blanchard, “Eight Hours,” 1878

Which group’s goals were expressed in the lyrics of this song?

• Native American Indians

• Labor Union Member

• Government Officials

• Business Owners

Match the following

Groups:

(a) Industiralization

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(b) Farm Issues

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(c) Cattle Ranching

• Mechanization lead to overproduction, inflation, and debt.

• Onnovations like the Bessemer Process resulted in faster production of steel and othe products

• Invention of barbed wire and refrigerated cars allowed this industry to grow.

Andrew Carnegie's Philanthropy included many (a)   which enhanced American eduction.

• Libraries
• Science labs
• orchestras

William "​ (a)   " Tweed was an American Politician most notable for being part of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party ​ (b)  

• Boss
• Chief
• Chaplin
• political machine
• political infrastructures
• political parties

The Homestead Act (1862) promoted the development of western lands by –

• Providing free land to settlers

  
  

• Removing all restrictions on immigration

• Moving Native American Indians to reservations

• Creating a system of dams for crop irrigation

Most American Indians lived west of the Mississippi River by the 1850s. Many of them were moved to reservations from land promised by treaty to them. Who ordered which of the following in the east?

• George Washington and the French and Indian War

• Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

• Sam Houston and the Texas Revolution

• Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Nativism

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(b) Immigration

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(c) Urbanization

• Forced assimilation and Threat of poverty

• Passage of Chinese Exclusion Act

• Overcrowding with unhealthy living conditions

In the late nineteenth century, critics of big business claimed that monopolies and trusts in the United States harmed the economy by –

• decreasing the urban growth rate.

• unfairly limiting competition.

• failing to keep pace with the European industries.

• preventing technological innovation.

After 1880, where did the majority of “New Immigrants” to the United States come from?

• Northern and Western Europe

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Canada and Latin America

• China and Southeast Asia

Which of the following helped bring an end to cattle drives from Texas to Kansas during the 1880s?

• Dawes Severalty Act

• gold mining

• barbed wire

• National Reclamation Act