US History Final Review 3

How did the government encourage the railroad companies to build?

• giving land grants and money

• signing the Homestead Act

• annexing Alaska

This gave 160 acres of land for free to anyone willing to work the land for 5 years

• The Trail of Tears

• The Homestead Act

• The union Pacific RR company

• Prospectors

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 

• Nativists

• Political bosses

• Miners

• Labor leaders

Who was the leader of Tammany Hall (New York Poltical Machine)?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• William Tweed

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• Interstate Commerce Act 

• Homestead Act

• Sherman AntiTrust Act

• Dawes Act

writers who raked up the 'muck' or dirt of American life.

• muckrakers

• imperialists

• progressives

• idealists

Responsible for the 'New Freedom' taming big business and encouraging greater competition. Would later be the President during World War I

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Harry Truman

During the late 1800s, the use of child labor in United States factories was most opposed by

• parents

• labor unions

• factory owners 

• nativists 

What is the type of sensational reporting in which writers exaggerate or even invent stories?

• muckraking

• yellow journalism

• journalism

• reporting

What did the supporters of the annexation of the Philippines believe after the Spanish-American War?

• The islands would serve as a U.S. naval base

• The Philippines would become a military rival if not annexed

• The islands had no potential as a market for American goods

• The Filipino culture was similar to that of the U.S.