Unit 4 (Gilded Age + Progressive Era)

The conflict between US government and Native Americans out West, like the Sioux nation, was primarily driven by disputes over

• styles of farming

• claims to land

• forms of government

• family structures

The government encouraged western settlement with the Homestead Act which...

• gave free land to settlers willing to farm out west

• 1. placed Native American Indians on reservations

• 1. removed all restrictions on immigration

• created a system of dams for crop irrigation

Government land grants given to railroad companies building the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act show that...

• the US government directly promoted westward settlement

• the railroads always offered fair rates for customers

• Congress feared conflict with natives in the Great Plains

• public opinion supported laissez-faire economic policies

When the US Government passed the Dawes Act of 1887, the main purpose of this law was to

• promote assimilation and privatize native lands

• force natives to migrate outside of US borders

• compensate (pay) native Americans for broken treaties and prior mistreatment

• help natives preserve and protect their lands and cultures

The Transcontinental Railroad did all of the following EXCEPT

• 1. 
     protected Native American lands from settlement

• decreased the travel time to get across the United States

• 
  increased American settlement of the West

• expanded U.S. trade markets

“New immigrants” of the late nineteenth century faced prejudicial nativism for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• They practiced different religions

• They had different languages and cultures

• They were willing to work for lower wages than were native-born workers

• They dominated the elite professions of law, medicine, and engineering

Which of the following policies would business tycoons during the Gilded Age most likely have supported?

(*limited* gov't interference in the economy)

• The use of federal power to redistribute wealth

• Government creation of jobs for unemployed people

• Increased regulation of corporations

• laissez-faire government policies

Which term most accurately illustrates nativism during the Gilded Age?

• the Chinese Exclusion Act

• urbanization

• the Dawes Act

• the Haymarket Strike

The Great Railroad strike of 1877, the Homestead strike of 1892 and the Pullman strike of 1894, which all happened during the Gilded Age, were similar in that they…

• Immediately led to new worker protection laws

• all involved workers in the steel industry

• were unnsuccessful & shut down by government troops

• were successful as workers got their demands

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court established the general principle that…

• states could not prevent blacks from voting

• states could not refuse to allow blacks to enjoy their equal rights as citizens

• states could make people pay money at the voting booth and take literacy tests before allowing them to vote

• states could continue to enforce the use of “separate but equal” segregated public facilities