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LEAP Review Quiz #1 Gilded Age- Industrialization

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The map shows the lines of the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1800s. Use the map to determine the major objectives of these railroad lines. (Choose 2)

a)

to join the Midwestern states with the states of the Far West

b)

to connect several Rocky Mountain states

c)

to connect the East Coast with the Midwest

d)

to improve relations with Mexico by establishing railroad connections there

e)

to connect the Great Lakes region with the Gulf of Mexico

2.

A government program that offered free land to potential settlers if they stayed and farmed land in the Midwest for 5 years.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

The Dawes Act

c)

The Gold Rush

d)

The Homestead Act

3.

What factor did Carlisle Indian School and the Dawes Act share?

a)

Purpose - both were the federal government's attempt at forced assimilation of the Native Americans

b)

Place - both occurred in the northeastern United States

c)

People - both were created by the nativist, Carlisle Dawes

d)

All of these are factors shared

4.
Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act did what?
a)
closed America to Chinese immigrants for the next ten years
b)
welcomed more Chinese immigrants to America to perform hard work
c)
allowed Chinese immigrants, but only under a very strict set of rules
d)
closed America to Chinese immigrants for three years then allowed a few at a time
5.
complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition
a)
Robber Barons
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Monopoly
d)
Philanthropy
6.
Scottish immigrant made his fortune in steelmaking, known for “Gospel of Wealth”
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Samuel Gompers
d)
Thomas Edison
7.
process which made steel more affordable and profitable
a)
Gospel of Wealth
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Smelting
d)
Monopoly
8.
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
9.
organized workers to act as a group not as an individual to leverage for better working conditions
a)
Union
b)
Robber Barons
c)
Captains of Industry
d)
Knights of Labor
10.
Economic philosophy based on "Survival of the fittest"
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
National Market
c)
Knights of Labor
d)
Free Enterprise System