Unit 9 Review

Question 1

What did the Homestead Act grant?

Answer 1

160 acres of land

Question 2

Who harnessed electricity?

Answer 2

Thomas Edison

Question 3

What is the name for a hands off economy?

Answer 3

Laissez Faire

Question 4

What are Vaqueros?

Answer 4

Mexican Cowboys

Question 5

What ended the cowboys?

Answer 5

Barb wire

Question 6

Which group was targeted for immigration restriction?

Answer 6

The Chinese

Question 7

What was the final Indian battle?

Answer 7

Wounded Knee

Question 8

What helped create the national market?

Answer 8

The Railroad

Question 9

What was Angel Island?

Answer 9

An immigration station

Question 10

Who was an inventor and entrepreneur?

Answer 10

Ford

Question 11

What is another name for corporate farming?

Answer 11

Bonanza

Question 12

What city was the meat packing capital?

Answer 12

Chicago

Question 13

What resulted from cheap money?

Answer 13

Inflation

Question 14

What is the term for ruthless businessmen?

Answer 14

Robber Barons

Question 15

What was the Long Drive?

Answer 15

The cowboy route taken to bring cattle to the railroads.

Question 16

What is vertical integration?

Answer 16

When a company controls all manufacturing steps

Question 17

What was the 1896 election issue?

Answer 17

The type of currency to be used

Question 18

Who won the 1896 election?

Answer 18

McKinley

Question 19

What happened because of underground mining?

Answer 19

Cave ins and fires

Question 20

What is the melting pot?

Answer 20

Blending of cultures

Question 21

What is Nativism?

Answer 21

When the natives are hostile to immigrants

Question 22

Who is associated with standard oil?

Answer 22

Rockefeller

Question 23

What are African American cowboys?

Answer 23

Exodusters

Question 24

What is populism?

Answer 24

A movement among farmers

Question 25

What problems did farmers face at the Turn of the Century? (4)

Answer 25

1. Price of crop drops 2. Railroad monopolies 3. Foreclosures on farms 4. Greenback Issue

Question 26

List the organizations farmers were apart of (3):

Answer 26

Granges: Local Farmers Farmer Alliances: Regional Farmers Populist Party: National Farmers

Question 27

What did the Republicans (Bankers) believe in? (3)

Answer 27

1. Gold currency - Less $$ in circulation 2. Loans = more valuable and stable 3. Deflation: Prices drop, value of $$ rises

Question 28

What did the Democrats (Farmers) believe in? (3)

Answer 28

1. Bimetallism - More $$ in circulation 2. Products sold at higher prices 3. Prices rise, value of $$ drop

Question 29

What natural resources causes the rise of an industrial economy? (3)

Answer 29

Coal, oil, and iron ore

Question 30

What were the power sources for natural resources? (3)

Answer 30

Railroads, machines, and cars

Question 31

Who created steel in England?

Answer 31

Henry Bessemer

Question 32

What were the 2 sources of labor supply?

Answer 32

1. Immigrants from Europe and Asia 2. Internal migration from rural areas

Question 33

Who created steel in the US?

Answer 33

Andrew Carnegie

Question 34

Who created railroads?

Answer 34

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 35

What is horizontal integration?

Answer 35

One company buys out other companies of the same industry

Question 36

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 36

Natural selection and the strongest business survive; allows for the haves and have nots

Question 37

What factors encourage the Western Settlement after the war? (3)

Answer 37

1. New Life from War 2. New Technologies 3. Role of gov.

Question 38

US Military was used to clear the way for settlement:

Answer 38

Indian Policy

Question 39

What happened after the Dawes act was passed?

Answer 39

"Indian Schools" opened throughout the country

Question 40

How were old and new immigrants similar? (4)

Answer 40

1. Experienced Nativism 2. Worked toughest jobs 3. Passed through an immigration station 4. Lived in cities

Question 41

1. Came before civil war 2. Wanted land 3. Protestants 4. From N/W Europe 5. Blended easily

Answer 41

Old Immigrants

Question 42

1. Came after civil war 2. Came to escape persecution/find jobs 3. Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist 4. From S/E Europe and Asia 5. Discriminated and segregated

Answer 42

New Immigrants

Question 43

Prohibited all Chinese immigration except for students, teachers, merchants, and gov. officials:

Answer 43

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Question 44

Limited the # of immigrants from a country to 2% of those nationalities living in the US in 1890. Targeted S/E Europe and Asia:

Answer 44

Immigration Restriction ct of 1921

Question 45

Why did immigrants support political machines?

Answer 45

They provided jobs and citizenship

Question 46

List the issues with the Political Machines (4):

Answer 46

1. Corrupt 2. Scandalous 3. Tweed Ring 4. Prompted Reform

Question 47

A religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century; led to the creation of settlement houses:

Answer 47

Social Gospel

Question 48

Which candidate was pro-business?

Answer 48

William McKinley

Question 49

Which candidate was pro-farmer?

Answer 49

William Jennings Bryan

Question 50

People that commanded enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state:

Answer 50

Political Machines