Duplicate of US History A Unit 1 Review

Question 1

Laws established during Reconstruction that kept blacks from having equal rights

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws

Question 2

Which immigrant group primarily worked on the railroad?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 3

Which was not a major change in American society in this time?

Accepted Answer

Education decreased

Question 4

Which of the following was NOT a challenge of settling the west?

Accepted Answer

Low wages

Question 5

What is the result for the Great Plains after the railroad is complete?

Accepted Answer

Population increases in the Plains

Question 6

Which is NOT a principle of Social Darwinism

Accepted Answer

Wealth is often a result of luck, not work

Question 7

These schools were established to assimilate Native American children into white society

Accepted Answer

Boarding Schools

Question 8

Haters of the business leaders called “captains of industry" mostly argued that these men...

Accepted Answer

Built their wealth by taking advantage of workers

Question 9

What animal is Harambe?

Accepted Answer

Gorilla

Question 10

Which movie is currently leading at the box offices?

Accepted Answer

The Girl on the Train

Question 11

This act broke up reservations into 160 acres of land for each head of household

Accepted Answer

The Dawes Act

Question 12

This gave settlers 160 acres if they lived on it for 5 years, built a house & farmed the land

Accepted Answer

The Homestead Act

Question 13

Why did Chinese immigration decrease after 1882?

Accepted Answer

The Chinese Exclusion Act kept new immigrants from coming in

Question 14

Which of these people is NOT a character in Harry Potter?

Accepted Answer

Bilbo

Question 15

What percent of the world's population lives in America?

Accepted Answer

4.5%

Question 16

Assimilation means...

Accepted Answer

to absorb one culture into another

Question 17

How the the government help the railroads expand westward?

Accepted Answer

Gave them free land grants

Question 18

How much soda does the average American drink a year?

Accepted Answer

50 gallons

Question 19

Which of these is NOT an example of a PUSH factor encouraging blacks to leave the South?

Accepted Answer

The Homestead Act

Question 20

The idea that Americans had a God-given right to expand westward was known as

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 21

Who were the exodusters?

Accepted Answer

Black Americans leaving the South after the Civil War

Question 22

Why did the US population increase so much in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Immigrants from Europe came to the US for job opportunities

Question 23

A "trust" is

Accepted Answer

When a single company dominates an industry

Question 24

All of the these are examples of PULL factors of immigration except...

Accepted Answer

Lack of services

Question 25

How did the government restrict immigration?

Accepted Answer

set quotas for each country

Question 26

How many days until winter break?

Accepted Answer

60

Question 27

What did new technologies do for farmers?

Accepted Answer

Allowed them to grow more crops

Duplicate of US History A Unit 1 Review

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