American History II Midterm 2018

The Bessemer Process helped John D. Rockefeller to profit greatly in the steel industry.

Corporations usually grew either through Horizontal Integration or Vertical Integration.

The first off-reservation Indian boarding school was opened in 1829 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

The United States military helped plantation owners in Alabama overthrow a ruling monarchy.

Manifest Destiny is the philosophy that the US is destined to expand across North America.

Mass-transit systems allowed people to:

Lois Sullivan wrote "How the Other Half Lives" to expose factory working conditions in Chicago.

Native Americans willingly participated in assimilation programs within boarding schools.

The first federal law to restrict immigration, passed in 1882, aimed to:

New York City's _____ was home to many immigrants, where they lived tenement houses.

What innovation brought migration westward in the late 1860s through 1880s

Who were the key figures in managing and enforcing assimilation programs in the West

Inventions of the 19th & 20th c. enabled items to be mass-produced and led to a rise in jobs.

Colonel JM Chivington coined the phrase, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man."

Which historical source best represents the US territorial control reaching the Pacific Coast:

William Tweed was a local politician in New York City and the leader of Tammany Hall.

Charles Darwin's theory of "Natural Selection" can be summed up as "survival of the fittest."

Thomas Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb, which was patented in 1880.

Robber Barons of the late 19th century looked to

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act barred Chinese from entering the United States.

By the 1880s, who began advocating for the reservation system to be dismantled

Towns that connected cattle drives to railroads for transportation were called "Homesteads".

Government corruption was exposed by journalists called "Muckrakers".

Urbanization and the growth of the transportation network are results of US Industrialization.

Sam Houston's Indian policies as president of the Republic of Texas plunged the state into war.

The US overtook China as the Industrial Leader of the world between the 1880s and 1890s.

How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth:

Electricity enabled factories to increase efficiency by giving workers more time off.

Mechanization enabled unskilled workers to gain employment.

Jacob Riis brought hazardous tenement living conditions to the public eye using

Which of the following cities did NOT see a population growth of over one million in 1900

The slaughter of the American Buffalo impacted white settlers only.

Which group did not directly contribute to the industrialization of the US:

Which legislation enabled surplus reservation lands to be sold/settled by white settlers:

Ragtime is piano music, born in North Carolina and created by John Philip Sousa.

Industrialization transformed America as a result of immigration.

How many acres were given to farmers under the provision of the Homestead Act:

Monopolies limit competition.

Most immigrants in the New Immigration of the late 19th and early 20th c. moved to

The discovery of gold in Oklahoma in 1848 brought increased migrant traffic across the plains.