Unit 6 Review

What was one purpose of the business organization known as the trust?

• to reward employees

• to control prices

• to provide employee benefits

• to offer quality training

All of these were an effect of the Homestead Act except:

• decrease in settlers moving west

• decrease in American Indian land

• increase in U.S. Farms

• increase in railway lines

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

Which group was negatively affected by the transcontinental raillroad?

• Irish immigrants

• Plains Indians

• shipping workers

• cattle ranchers

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

All of these beliefs caused the wave of nativism in the early 1900s except:

• that immigrants would not work

• that immigrants competed for jobs

• that immigrants were criminals

• that immigrants caused slums

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CCSS.RL.5.6

Why did so many Mexicans come to the United States between 1910 and 1920?

• to flee religious persecution

• to escape the Mexican revolution

• to search for gold

• to claim lands lost during the Mexican-American war

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

How did monopolies threaten the free-enterprise system?

• by reducing prices

• by encouraging labor disputes

• by increasing foreign trade

• by eliminating competition

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

How are refugees different from other immigrants?

• They are fleeing to save their lives.

• They are criminals banished from their country.

• They are invited to live in a country.

• They are people who leave their family behind.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Why were U.S. immigrants often met with resentment?

• People thought they took jobs away from citizens.

• People thought the country would become too crowded.

• People were envious of their wealth and experience.

• People were afraid they would take over the country

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CCSS.RL.5.6

Mass production of goods affected life in the United States in all of these ways except:

• working conditions were better.

• products were more affordable

• more people were employed

• more factories were built

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, what was promised to American Indians?

• land of the Great Plains

• money to compensate for land.

• a yearly supply of buffalo meat.

• military protection.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9