1. US History
UNIT TEST NOTES

2. The application of theory of evolution and natural selections to human society was known as?

3. Social Darwinism

4. Most urban working-class families lived in multifamily apartment buildings called?

5. Tenements

6. In the late 1800’s, many rural Americans moved to big cities in search of?

7. Better Paying Jobs

8. At the end of the nineteenth century, immigrants made up a significant percentage of some of the country’s largest

9. Cities

10. What law prevented Chinese immigrants already in the United States from becoming citizens?

11. Chinese Exclusion act

12. The vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast spent about a day at a processing center located where?

13. Angel Island

14. Most immigrants came to the United States in part of escape from poverty and?

15. Europe’s class system

16. By the 1890’s, more than half of all immigrants in the United States were?

17. Eastern and Southern Europeans

18. Which of the following did the People’s Party also known as the Populists call for in 1892?

19. A graduated income tax

20. Farmers were hurt economically by high tariffs, high shipping rates, and?

21. Deflation

22. In the late 1800’s, new technology helped farmers produce more crops, which tended to?

23. Lower prices

24. The Knights of Labor suffered a steady decline in membership and influence due to lost strikes and?

25. The Heymarket Roit

26. Employers generally viewed unions as?

27. Conspiracies that interfered with property rights

28. When a union called a strike, employers would often hire replacements called?

29. Strikebreakers (Scabs)

30. A__was a technique for breaking a union through which the company refused to allow workers onto their property

31. Lockout

32. What is an organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single person?

33. A Corporation

34. Where a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as a?

35. Monopoly

36. To make rail service more reliable, in 1883 the American Railway Association did what?

37. Divided the country into standardized time zones

38. The two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were the?

39. Union Pacific and Central Pacific

40. A shortage of workers in California forced the Central Pacific Railroad to hire about 10,000 workers from?

41. China

42. One reason for the country’s industrial success was its vast abundance of natural?

43. Resources

44. Northern___traditionally supported high tariffs to protect them from competition overseas.

45. Entrepreneurs

46. Supporters of laissez-faire generally favor?

47. Free Trade

48. The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if they___for five years

49. Lived on it

50. Large landholders on the Great Plains were able to?

51. Invest in the tools they needed