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The West and Gilded Age Test Review

  1. What does it mean to be optimistic about something?
  2. When you see the word “economic” what should you relate that word to?
  3. What does the word “advocate” mean?
  4. What does the term “influx” mean? (an influx of immigrants)
  5. What does “mechanization of agriculture” mean?
  6. How would the mechanization of agriculture affect farmers?
  7. Describe why the farmers pushed for the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act?
  1. How is the Interstate Commerce Act opposite of the idea of Laissez-Faire?
  1. Immigration
  2. What are push factors?
  3. What are pull factors?
  4. What were some the issues immigrants faced as they came to the U.S.?
  5. What were tenements?
  6. Why did many immigrants live in the tenements?
  7. How have immigrants helped shape our national identity?
  1. Industrialization
  2. What does that mean?
  3. What are some factors that contributed to the industrialization of the U.S.?
  1. Free Enterprise
  2. Describe what that means.
  1. Why was barbed wireinvented?
  1. Describe the purpose of theDawes Act-
  1. Assimilation–Remember not only the Native Americans were assimilated but immigrants were also assimilated.
  2. Definition?
  1. Describe how a person is different after they have been assimilated? (how does he or he/she look, language, live, etc)
  1. What is the idea ofManifest Destiny?
  1. Homestead Act –
  2. What was it?
  3. How did the Homestead act contribute to the settlement of the Great Plains?
  4. What type of housing did homesteaders live in?
  5. Why did they live in these types of homes?
  6. Transcontinental Railroad
  7. How did the RR contribute to the settlement of the Great Plains?
  1. The Gilded Age
  2. How would you characterize the Gilded Age?
  1. What are some of the things that happened during this time period?
  1. Monopoly / Trusts –
  2. What is a Monopoly or a Trust?
  3. What is bad about a monopoly?
  1. Bessemer Steel Process –
  2. How did this process impact the landscape of the U.S.?
  1. How is this process related to industrialization?
  1. Robber Baron – Why were Carnegie and Rockefeller often called Robber Barons?
  1. Philanthropy–
  2. Describe what philanthropy means.
  3. Who (beside JJ Watt) was a philanthropist?
  4. How did philanthropistsin the Gilded Age help the community?
  5. Social Darwinism –
  6. What is the theory of Social Darwinism?
  7. How was Social Darwinism used to justify monopolistic actions?
  1. Nativism –
  2. What is thedefinition of a nativist?
  3. Why were so many Americans against immigrants?
  1. Chinese Exclusion Act
  2. How would you describe the Chinese Exclusion/Immigration Act?
  1. Why was it passed?
  1. Why would nativists have supported this Act?
  1. When the government couldn’t adequately take care of the immigrants, what did the political machines do to help them?
  1. Labor Unions
  2. Why were they formed?
  3. How did employers feel about the formation of labor unions?
  4. American Federation of Labor (AFL) –
  5. Knights of Labor (KOL) -