Growth of a Nation + World War I

What innovation contributed to the rapid industrialization (growth of factories) of the United States?

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

What is one positive about the laissez-faire politics?

• Immigrants were exploited by political machines

• Entrepreneurs started businesses without government interference

• American workers formed labor unions

• Many immigrants lived in tenements

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Political Corruption

• Laissez Faire

• Monopoly

• Social Darwinism

What statement about tenements was true during the Gilded Age?

• The living conditions of tenements improved greatly

• The number of people living in tenements declined

• Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements

• Tenements were torn down and rebuilt

What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

• By homesteading on the Great Plains

• By joining labor unions

• By working for Political bosses

• Through better education

Cities populations grew in the West, expand in communication and commerce, and growth in settlers are due to-

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Klondike Gold Rush

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Telegraph

Big Business, Westward Expansion, bad working conditions, political machines, and immigration were issues of what time period in the U.S

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Building an Empire

• Civil Rights and the 60's

Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

Congested, overcrowded, and pollution were some problems due to-

• Urbanization

• Westward Expansion

• The Klondike Gold Rush

• The Transcontinental Railroad

Which of the following was a pull factor that attracted immigrants to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

• Religious persecution

• Economic opportunities

• Political instability

• Overpopulation in their home countries

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