1st 6 weeks District Test 25-26

What was one of the reasons the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed?

• To allow more immigration from other Asian countries.

• Nativists blamed Chinese immigrants for lower wages and lack of job opportunities

• to limit the amount of goods traded with the Chinese.

• because the Transcontinental Railroad had been completed and no there was no need for Chinese immigrants

Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like American farmers. This was an attempt to assimilate the Natives.

• Dawes Act

• Ghost Dance

• Trail of Tears

• Laws Act

During the late nineteenth century (1800s), the rapid increase of immigrants to urban areas made it difficult to city leaders to provide basic services. This led to the expansion of which type of politics in large cities such as New York City?

• Republican

• Democratic

• machine politics

• laissez-faire

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. What was this called?

• geopolitical

• political bosses

• anthropolgy

• philanthropy

Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these groups of people mostly restricted new immigrants from entering the country. They did not like foreign born immigrants.

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Political Bosses

• Nativists

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, intimidation and kickbacks (government jobs in exchange for money) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics

This federal government land grant gave people 160 acres of land if they lived on the land for 5 years-eventually millions of acres were given away. It encouraged westward settlement

• Homestead Act

• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Land Act

As Native Americans were removed from their land, they were placed into boarding schools where they were subjected to __________.

• Assimilation or Americanization

• Innovation or Invention

• Diffusion or Spreading

• Contextualizing or Corroboration

The Constitution contains which of the following: Select TWO that apply.

• Rules responsible for the organization of the government

• Unalienable Rights

• The protection of liberties through a Bill of Rights

• A requirement of laissez-faire policies

Which of the following are direct impacts of the Growth of Railroads? Select Three that apply.

• expansion of farming and ranching

• closing of the western frontier

• created more jobs and encouraged the growth of American business

• caused fewer immigrants to come to America