Unit 6: Gilded Age Review

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• To provide settlers with public land for westward expansion.

• To divide tribal lands into individual allotments to assimilate Native Americans.

• To connect the eastern and western United States by railroad.

• To establish community centers for urban poor and immigrants.

Which act provided settlers with public land to promote westward expansion?

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Plessy v. Ferguson

What was the Transcontinental Railroad primarily built by?

• Native Americans and African Americans

• Chinese and Irish laborers

• Italian and German immigrants

• Mexican and Canadian workers

What system involved farmers renting land and paying rent with a share of their crops?

• Sharecropping

• Homesteading

• Tenant Farming

• Crop Rotation

What did political machines provide to immigrants in exchange for political support?

• Education

• Land

• Services

• Employment

Who was Jane Addams?

• A photographer who exposed child labor conditions

• A social reformer advocating for women’s roles in city governance and public welfare

• A leader of political machines

• A Supreme Court justice

What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896?

• It restricted Chinese immigration.

• It legalized segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine.

• It provided public land for settlers.

• It connected the eastern and western United States by railroad.

What philosophy applied 'survival of the fittest' to justify economic inequality?

• Social Darwinism

• Marxism

• Capitalism

• Communism

Who was Lewis Hine?

• A social reformer

• A photographer who exposed child labor conditions

• A leader of political machines

• An inventor of electric lighting

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

• A law providing public land to settlers

• A law restricting Chinese immigration

• A decision legalizing segregation

• A system of sharecropping