Midterm Review

How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact the economy during the 1800s?

Define women's suffrage

What progressive reform improved the conditions seen in urban tenements?

Based on the cartoon, what can one infer about the railroads during the 1800s?

How the Other Half Lives was written by Jacob Riis in order to

Rapid urbanization was a result of

A challenge or problem that has been debated across time

Standard Oil was a small company with little to no political and economic influence.

Private ownership of the means of production

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created after the Civil War to:

As shown by this painting, the belief that Americans had the God-given right to expand westward:

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that:

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to the passage of laws that created safer working conditions.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed for the following reason:

Refers to the historical circumstances that led to this event/idea/historical development. 

How accurate or useful a source is for a specific purpose

Geographic context

Which region of the U.S. did the Chinese settle in after passing through Angel Island?

Why did the U.S. pass the Homestead Act of 1863?

Who would agree with the following statement: “Immigrants steal jobs from people who were born in this country.”

What did the 19th Amendment do?

Between 1820 and 1840, the United States removed Native American Indians from their tribal lands and placed them on:

What was the outcome of the publication of The History of the Standard Oil Company

What was the "Cycle of Poverty"?

Cheaper goods was an immediate economic result of the use of mass-production techniques in American factories.

Barbed wire helped to bring about the end of the Open Range and ended the cowboy way of life.

The Pure food and Drug Act was passed in response to

Through his political cartoons, Thomas Nast helped to expose corruption within urban governments.

What is a boomtown?

Why did immigrants settle in large cities?

What is a Muckraker?

What did the book "The Jungle" help to expose?