WorksheetsWestward Expansion/ Gilded Age Review
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 24mins
What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?
The Homestead Act
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Dawes Act
The American Indian Citizenship Act
This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...
The American Indian Citizenship Act
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
The Meat Inspection Act
What invention limited the "open range" and led to the decline of the cowboys' importance?
The Steam Locomotive
Barbed Wire
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Bessemer Process
This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Steamboat
The Stagecoach
The Aeroplane
What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?
Platinum
Coal
Silver
Gold
Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of another group or nation.
True
False
After the Civil War, the demand for _ grew.
chicken
beef
fish
chocolate
what vast land of area is located on this map?
The east
the central west
western plateau
Great Plains
Linked east and west; created markets!; created economic boom
barbed wire
transcontinental railroad
telegraph
steamboats
What event or factor that closed the frontier is depicted in the picture
dawes act
homestead act
manifest destiny
transcontinental railroad
What is the term that means someone adopts the culture and customs of a dominant culture? For example, a Polish immigrant adopts American customs and culture after moving to the U.S.
Assimilation
Tribalism
Nativism
Public transportation
What is the definition of a monopoly?
Splitting up of a company into smaller companies
A company without competition
A company operating in a city
A company owned by an immigrant
What is laissez-faire?
A belief that the government should not interfere in private business
A belief that government should heavily regulate business
A belief that the economy should be fair to all
A belief that companies should be heavily taxed
What industry did John D. Rockefeller make his money in?
Steel
Oil
Banking
Automobile production
Who was the philanthropic entrepreneur who made his fortune in the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
J. P. Morgan
Henry Ford
Grover Cleveland
Why did Americans move to the West?
To escape religious persecution
To assimilate to Native American culture
To better themselves economically (money or land)
Because Lebron moved to the Lakers
What is a union?
An individual demanding better wages, hours, and working conditions
Business owners lobbying Congress
Many business owners joining together to buy out their competitors
Many workers joining together to demand better wages, hours, and working conditions
Who were becoming wealthy during the Gilded Age?
Everyone
Hourly workers
Business owners
Unskilled workers
Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?
America had many organizations for immigrants to join.
America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.
It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.
This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:
the telegraph
the Bessemer Process
the Model T
The light bulb
Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were know as robber barons because:
they were like nobility, but they trampled on people to get rich.
they robbed trains to get rich.
they made their fortune by working through the night.
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Samuel Morse
The growth of cities is called:
assimilation
ruralization
mechanization
urbanization
Workers stick together to fight for better pay and working conditions. This is known as a:
trust
union
monopoly
industry
When a single group of people makes decisions for multiple companies and trade stocks, it is known as a:
stock
corporation
monopoly
trust
During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:
crowded, run down, and filthy
beautiful and new
spacious
the most expensive
What term attempted to assimilate people of different cultures?
Americanization movement
Nativism
Patronage System
Labor unions
Who accepted bribes in return for favors?
Industrialists
Natavists
Political bosses
Immigrants
Which idea summarizes the Gilded Age?
Many Americans moved west to farm
Native Americans were placed on Reservations
The discovery of Gold increased western migration
Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics
What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?
The Homestead Act
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Dawes Act
The American Indian Citizenship Act
How were cities built to conserve space?
Skyscrapers were built
Tenements apartments were built
Buildings were built in unique shapes
All of these happened
