USH Unit 2 - Gilded Age test review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Westward Expansion, Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration, Muckrakers, Robber Barons, Progressive Era

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What is Manifest Destiny?

The belief that the United States was destined to dominate the entire country and expand west

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Name 2 motivations for westward expansion in America

The homestead Act, Religion, The Transcontinental Railroad, The Oregon Trail, Mining, Opportunity, Money

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What was the Dawes Act?

Forced Native American Tribes to Assimilate to white culture by taking Native American land and assigning plots to individual native Americans

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What did the Homestead Act do?

Gave up to 160 acres of land to white families to encourage them to move west

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Why did Christians want to participate in westward expansion?

They believed they should "help" Native Americans by converting them and "civilizing" them

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True or False: Native Americans were not forced from their lands until 1830

False

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True or False: Native Americans were grateful for the Dawes Act because it gave them more land

False

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True or False: The U.S. Government encouraged Native Americans tribes to practice the antient ritual of Ghost Dance and did not try to intervene

False

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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) do?

Prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to America

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Describe the correlation between industrialization, immigration, and urbanization

I'll decide if you got it right :)

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The term Gilded means...?

Covered in a layer of gold

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A captain of Industry is a person who...

A business leader whose fortune contributed positively to the country

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A Robber Baron is...

someone who became rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices

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What industry made Cornelius Vanderbilt a tycoon?

Railroad Industry

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What industry made John D. Rockefeller a Billionaire?

Oil

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What is a Monopoly?

Exclusive ownership of a good, supply, or company

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