UNIT ONE TEST REVIEW
WESTWARD EXPANSION:
1. Why were Native Americans relocated to reservations after the Civil War?
2. Know the factors that led to the expansion and settlement of the West.
3. What was the biggest impact of the transcontinental railroad?
4. What impact did the Dawes Act have on Native American culture?
5. What invention helped farmers on the Great Plains close the range to cattle ranchers?
6. What were some of the problems facing farmers on the Great Plains?
7. Why did homesteaders on the Great Plains have to build sod houses?

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY:
8. What areas and businesses did electric power impact and how?
9. Why would supporters of Social Darwinism have supported laissez-faire practices?
10. What did philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie believe they should do with their wealth?
11. What age is characterized by wealthy businessmen expanding the industrial economy in the U.S.?
12. What manufacturing method was impacted by the telephone and electricity therefore allowing higher production?
13. What were the advantages of joining labor unions (what did the unions accomplish)?

URBANIZATION AND POLITICAL MACHINES
14. How did Boss Tweed and other political bosses hold so much power?
15. Why did urban populations increase so much by 1900?
16. What were some of the conditions in cities causes by such rapid growth?
IMMIGRATION
17. What kind of policy did the U.S. follow in regard to immigration during most of the 1800s and why?
18. What was an advantage for immigrants in the early 1900s (What was available for them)?
19. What were some of the legislations that were implemented in the late 1800s and early 1900s in reaction to previous policies of unlimited immigration?
20. What were some of the reasons immigrants wanted to leave their countries to come to America? (push factors)

21. What were some of the pull factors?
22. What is the term for trying to assimilate immigrants into U.S. culture and what were some of the ways immigrants were encouraged to assimilate?
FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICA
23. Describe what “E Pluribus Unum” means.