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The West
Industrialization
Urbanization
Immigration/Americanization
Farming/Mechanization
100
  • How were other lands deals from the federal government different from the Homestead Act?
  • People had to Pay
100
  • Why was standard oil considered a harmful monopoly?
  • The harsh and brutal policies to take over the industry
100
  • What led to the expansion of political machines, tenement housing, and crime in the late 1800s?
  • Urbanization
100
  • What is a pull factor for the US?
  • Reasonable Answers
100
  • What happened to skilled craftsmen during the industrialization of the 1800s?
  • They were replaced by machines
200
  • What were the main factors for western settlement, name two of three?
  • Gold Rush, Homestead Act, and Transcontinental Railroad
200
  • What region was the most industrialized in the US?
  • The Midwest
200
  • How did political machines keep control of cities?
  • Through corruption and patronage
200
  • What is the melting pot theory?
  • Different cultures blend to for American culture
200
  • What was the point of the Granger Movement and Populist Party?
  • To Improve Farmers conditions
300
  • How did eastern businesses profit of western farming?
  • Any acceptable answer
300
  • What were the strikers at Haymarket square protesting?
  • Against police brutality against workers
300
  • What did rapid industrial development lead to in the 1800s?
  • Growing cities/Urbanization
300
  • Why were native children forced into Industrial and Indian Schools?
  • To Promote assimilation/Make more American
300
  • What did Mechanization in farming lead to?
  • Increase in Production
400
  • What was the main fear of American and Native relations out west?
  • Further Conflict
400
  • Why did the Homestead Steel Strike and Pullman Railcar strike fail?
  • The Government supported business owners
400
  • Why was political patronage considered a bad idea?
  • Prevented the most qualified from jobs
400
  • What late 1800s social movement was most likely to state “America is for Americans”?
  • Nativists
400

How did mechanization effect farmers ability to pay back loans?

  • Created Surplus, Prices Fell, they couldn’t pay back there loans, and farms were closed
500
  • How did the US promote railroad construction?
  • By offering land grants to them
500
  • How was the theory of laissez faire economics used to support monopolies?
  • It justified unregulated growth
500
  • How were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller similar?
  • Both gave huge sums of money to charity?
500
  • What was social Darwinism?
  • That if one cannot feed or clothes themselves or is poor that it is their fault
500
  • How did Railroads benefit from and contribute to industrialization?
  • Steel and Coal were needed for both markets