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Reassessment Unit 3: Growth & Growing Pains - Key Terms

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Process of becoming an accepted part of a country, group, or mainstream culture—can be forced or voluntary

a)

Assimilation

b)

Immigration

c)

Nativization

d)

Socialism

2.

The Dawes Act of 1887...

a)

Confiscated & redistributed tribal lands in American West

b)

Did not allow Native Americans to have separate family farms and have tribal governing system

c)

Led to the Las Gorras Blancas and emergence of violence

d)

Led to creation of reservations to isolate Native Americans

3.

From the 1830s-1880s, the primary US gov't approach to Native Americans was all about REMOVAL & _____________, but this policy changed in 1887 (and again in 1930).

a)

Reservations

b)

Assimilation

c)

Citizenship

d)

Execution

4.
This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.
a)
The Chinese Exclusion Act
b)
The Ban on Foreign Labor Act
c)
The Asian Immigration Act
d)
The Chinese Labor Law
5.

What does indigenous mean?

a)

Native to or originally from a specific place

b)

Recently arrived to a specific place from somewhere else

c)

Upset at new arrivals and wanting to protect those born here

d)

The movement of people to urban areas

6.

(3 correct answers, select them all)

The Homestead Act:

a)

Encouraged westward settlement

b)

Freely granted 160 acres to every head of household who applied

c)

Created new tensions between Native Americans and new settlers

d)

Broke up the reservations into individual homesteads to encourage assimilation

e)

Was only for white male citizens

7.

What was the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on the West?

a)
It led to the discovery of gold and silver in the Rocky Mountains and Black Hills.
b)
It improved farming equipment on the Great Plains.
c)
It allowed for faster and farther movement of goods, raw materials, and people.
d)
It provided free land to settlers through the Homestead Act of 1862.
8.

What battle between the US Army and the Sioux Nation began over the Ghost Dance ritual and is seen by history as the final battle in the Indian Wars?

a)

The Battle of Sand Creek

b)

The Battle of Little Bighorn

c)

The Battle of Wounded Knee

d)

The Battle of the Ghost Dance

9.

a dance that the Native Americans believed would make white settlers leave and restore the buffalo to the Plains

a)

Ghost Dance

b)

Americanization

c)

assimilate

d)

reservation

10.
complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition
a)
Robber Barons
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Monopoly
d)
Philanthropy
11.

Known for using ruthless tactics to destroy competition;

don't seem to contribute to society in any positive way

a)
Laissez-Faire
b)
Robber Barons
c)

Captains of Industry

d)

Socialists

12.

This is the theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

a)
Cul-de-sac
b)
Laissez-Faire
c)
Fleur de Lis
d)
Achtung
13.
businessmen known for their positive contributions to the modern industrial economy
a)
Robber Barons
b)
Monopolists
c)
Captains of Industry
d)
Union
14.
Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?
a)
Angel Island
b)
Rhode Island
c)
Ellis Island
d)
Fools Island
15.

Nativists believed ..

a)

New immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.

b)

White Protestant Christians were superior to Eastern Orthodox Christians or Catholics.

c)

New immigrants stole jobs from natives.

d)

All of the above.

16.
Andrew Carnegie's steel business succeeded in part to a practice called _____________________, in which a business owner becomes involved in ALL steps of the manufacturing process. He not only owned steel mills, he bought the iron ore mines, coalfields and railroads needed to supply the steel.
a)
horizontal integration
b)
vertical integration
c)
trust
d)

All of the above

17.

This type of business practice sought to increase its profits by controlling a variety of different stages in the production and distribution (i.e. iron mine, coal mine, steel mill, trains)

a)

Vertical Integration

b)

Captain of Industry

c)

Horizontal Integration

d)

Industrial Revolution

18.

Where were most Asian immigrants processed as they tried to enter the U.S.?

a)

Angel Island

b)

Ellis Island

c)

Alcatraz Island

d)

Guantanamo Bay