Unit 1 Test Review

What was the Homestead Act?

• It allowed the use of barbed wire

• It allowed for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

• 160 acres of land in the west the government gave citizens if they agreed to farm it for 5 years

• it made the Populist Party a national party

What is the idea of Manifest Destiny?

• its the reason why the Homestead Act was passed

• stated that Americans were destined by divine to expand westward

• Was the reason for passing the Chinese Exclusion Act

• it was a labor reform movement

What was NOT not true about the Transcontinental Railroad and immigration?

• immigrants worked on the railroad to form trusts.

• railroad companies obtained cheap labor from immigration

• Many immigrants struggled to find the success they sought in America due to low wages

• Americans thought Chinese immigrants needed to be removed from this country even though they contributed a lot to the construction.

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• it restricted Chinese immigration to America for 10 years

• It allowed Chinese immigrants to work on the Transcontinental railroad

• It made tenement for Chinese immigrants illegal

• It was the act that allowed Chinese immigration into the U.S.

What eradicated the open range?

• Populist Party

• Civil War

• Transcontinental Railroad

• barbed wire

What was NOT an issue that farmers struggled with in the west?

• new supplies coming in on the Transcontinental Railroad

• high shipping rates

• poor & in debt

• lacked a say in politics

What did the Populism Party sought to do?

• support big businesses & stay on the gold standard

• get gov. to regulate big businesses & introduce a system of bimetallism

• restrict further immigration

• create better living conditions in cities

What is NOT true about Robber Barons?

• The government would not regulate the businesses

• they ran monopolies & trust

• they eliminated competition in the industry

• the government played an active role in big business

What does a Laissez-Faire economy mean?

• No gov. regulation of big businesses

• Safer working conditions

• Gov. regulation of big businesses

• Better pay & hours

What did the Sherman Antitrust Act do?

• Allowed for the creation of labor unions

• Create safer working conditions

• Restore competition to business

• Create safer living conditions