LEAP 2025 Review US History Part 1 - Missed Questions

An unofficial city organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power and usually headed by a single powerful “boss.”

• Political Machine

• Suburb

• Gilded Age

• Laissez-Faire

• Spoils System

Pressuring Native Americans to cut their hair, change their dress, and learn English are examples of:

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

Which result completes this diagram?

• Ratification of suffrage amendment.

• Building of the transcontinental railroad.

• Passage of prohibition legislation

• Expansion of labor Unions

Answer explanation

Labor Unions began because of the poor conditions in the factories.

A typical tenement could be described as

• Un-crowded with all the basic necessities of life

• Crowded yet provided for all the basic necessities

• Un-crowded with all the modern necessities of life

• Crowded without provision for basic necessities of life

This cartoon best associates with...

• Big Business

• Nativism

• Settlement Houses

• Labor Unions

Which of the following was intended to assimilate Native Americans?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which of the following offered free land in the West to encourage settlement?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Lack of jobs, poverty, famine, war, and persecution are all examples of:

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

Farmers support the ________standard for money.

• Bimetalism 
• Gold 

Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?

• The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.

• Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power.

• In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry.

• Small, family owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations.