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WorksheetsUnit 5 Review 20-21---Part Two
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 50mins
Railroad
First American "big business"
created the assembly line method of production and the Ford Model T car
Airplane,railroads, automobiles, steamboats
Applied Darwin's theory of natural selection and "survival of the fittest" to human society -- the poor are poor because they are not as fit to survive. Used as an argument against social reforms to help the poor.
JP Morgan
banker and later owned a steel company
used as a source of cheap labor; able to find jobs easily due to unskilled jobs in factories
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members.
Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.
Henry Ford
created the assembly line method of production and the Ford Model T car
used as a source of cheap labor; able to find jobs easily due to unskilled jobs in factories
banker and later owned a steel company
Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.
John D. Rockefeller
Oil Monopolist- formed Standard Oil
More efficient than small businesses
used as a source of cheap labor; able to find jobs easily due to unskilled jobs in factories
Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.
Andrew Carnegie
Steel Monopolist
Aided Westward Expansion
Created new middle class
Negative terminology as related to the wealthy.
Dawes Act
1887; law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners
American Indian chief, he lead the victory of Little Bighorn
the major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas
This scandal occurred in the 1870s when a railroad construction company's stockholders used funds that were supposed to be used to build the Union Pacific Railroad for railroad construction for their own personal use
assimilation
Ethnic groups lost their distinctive culture through the domination of newly expanding empires
Railroad that ran from Duluth to Seattle north of the Northern Pacific. It was the creation of a man named James J. Hill. It was the last of the transcontinental railroads of the 19th century. It was finished in 1893.
A mostly flat and grassy region of western North America
moving cattle from farmland to distribution plants
exodusters
African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.
Railroad that ran from Duluth to Seattle north of the Northern Pacific. It was the creation of a man named James J. Hill. It was the last of the transcontinental railroads of the 19th century. It was finished in 1893.
A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH
moving cattle from farmland to distribution plants
Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US
put an end to the open range
A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH
African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.
standard time
an effect of the railroad, a standard time system was developed to facilitate scheduling
1887; law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners
Apache leader who fought U.S. soldiers to keep his land. He led a revolt of 4,000 of his people after they were forced to move to a reservation in Arizona.
In December 1890, Army troops captured some of Sitting Bull's followers and took them to a camp. 300 Sioux men, women, and children were killed
Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific meet to complete the building of the transcontinental railroad?
. Promontory Summit, Utah
. Pikes Peak, Colorado
. Black Hills, South Dakota
. Salt Lake City, Utah
The Progressive movement supported the idea that the federal government should
regulate big business
stop immigration
build an overseas empire
promote business monopolies
Settlement houses were
Places immigrants and the poor could go to receive vital resources
A type of slum or ghetto in cities
Immigration centers, where immigrants went when they first arrived
Houses of rich people
Booker T. Washington advocated that African Americans must
.
earn their equality
protest for their immediate rights
becomes doctors and lawyers
move to the north to escape discrimination
W.E.B. Dubois founded this organization
NAACP
NRA
SEC
IWW
Progressive Era
time in the early 1900s when Americans tried to address the problems create by industrialization and urbanization
The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
the right to vote
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
Former President who founded the Progressive Party
Muckraker
a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
President who lost the election of 1912
a vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office
suffrage
the right to vote
Gave women the right to vote
Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)
a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
Prohibition
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
President who lost the election of 1912
a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
A Democrat who won the election of 1912 when the Republican vote was split.
17th Amendment
Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)
the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
Former President who founded the Progressive Party
16th Amendment
Allows the federal government to collect income tax
the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
Former President who founded the Progressive Party
The author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions in 1906, the bad quality of meat and the dangerous working conditions.
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act
Electoral College
Progressive Era
Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.
W.E.B. DuBois
Sherman Antitrust Act
Electoral College
Electoral College
social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
Interstate Commerce Act
Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
period of political and social reform that lasted roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s
Progressive Era
Interstate Commerce Act
Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching
Ida B. Wells
Interstate Commerce Act
Susan B. Anthony
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
Electoral College
19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Gave women the right to vote
Electoral College
19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Established the direct election of senators (instead of being chosen by state legislatures)
17th Amendment
19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.
Political Machine
Civil Service
The Third Party
House of Representatives
Head of Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
Grover Cleveland
Chester A. Arthur
Rutherford B. Hayes
Urbanization
Growth of cities.
Rundown apartments built close to factories and barely meet minimum standards such as no electricity, heat, running water, or windows.
To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native
Third class steamer ticket.
immigrant
one who moves to a new country
did not speak English, not Protestant Christian, not from the same cultures as "old" immigrants, less educated
Boss of New York City's Tammany Hall
reasons for leaving your home country; crushing poverty, government persecution, etc.
"Push" factors
reasons for leaving your home country; crushing poverty, government persecution, etc.
"Support for the concerns of ordinary people"
journalists, writers and artists that attempted to expose the problems of the new industrial, urban America
political machine that controlled New York City
nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of people born in country against those of immigrants.
came from northern and western Europe
reasons for going to the country immigrants go to; freedom, "American dream: jobs, etc.
Immigrants, mostly men, who came in the spring and returned to their home country in the fall
emigrant
one who leaves a country
organized when the Grange and the Farmer's Alliance could not get the government to listen to the problems of farmers; unsuccessfully ran candidates for president.
came from northern and western Europe
increased supply, high tariffs, inflation/deflation
"Pull" factors
reasons for going to the country immigrants go to; freedom, "American dream: jobs, etc.
the policy of protecting the interests of people born in country against those of immigrants.
Party established in the1850's that was primarily anti-Catholic and hostile to immigration, starting originally as a secret society.
political machine that controlled New York City
Angel Island
Immigration station in San Francisco, California mostly processing people from Asia.
Growth of cities.
1890s-1920s immigrants who were mostly Catholics, Muslims, and Jews from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Third class steamer ticket.
Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and opposed immigration are ______________.
Nativists
The K.K.K.
Nazis
The Revolution of ______________ helped connect cities together, making it easy for people to get from one place to another. This caused American cities to grow and become bigger.
Transportation
Germans
Immigrants
Irish
What was a pull factor?
Abundant Land
Not happy with land
War
illness
Poorly designed apartments and an overcrowded housing place in which many immigrants lived were called ______________.
Tenements
urban challenges
immigration homes
illness
What did the majority of major cities not have at the time?
Clean water.
They had everything.
People
Buildings
Community Centers in the slums that provided assistance to the poor and needy.
Settlement Houses
Tenements
YMCA
Soup Kitchens
Which factor played a role in Industrialization in the United States?
Railroad Expansion
End of the Civil War
Native American Slaves
All of the other answers
Gilded Age
period in the last decades of the 19th century in which extravagance and wealth concealed mounting social problems, government corruption, and poverty
residential area surrounding a city
blended nationalities that create a single culture
Law that created an Asiatic Barred Zone, covering most of East Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Jane Addams
Established Chicago's Hull House, providing help such as night school, kindergarten, and gyms for immigrants and the poor.
Discrimination of immigrants by US Americans. Elide that immigrants threatened "American Values".
Poorest urban areas where specific racial or ethnic groups live
The process of moving from one country or region to another and then settling there.
The growth of cities is called
urbanization
industrialization
entrepreneurs
the Bessemer process
The shift from a farming based economy to an industry based economy is...
urbanization
industrialization
entrepreneurs
the Bessemer process
