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Unit 3 Review - U.S. History - Veal
1. What was the result of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
2. What were some of the push/pull factors causing immigration?
3. Where did immigrants settle during the gilded age?
5. What happened to populations during the Gilded Age?
6. What closed the open range and gave the farmers the upper hand over the cattle ranchers?
7. In order to become “Americanized”, what did one have to do?
8. Where during the Gilded Age did most immigrants find jobs?
9. In the late 1800s, what ethnic group was restricted from immigrating to the U.S. Because of nativist
fears?
10. What was one factor that encouraged settlers to move westward?
11. Why were nativists against immigrants?
12. What was one of the biggest factors leading to population increases in the west during the late
1800s?
13. How did most political bosses make their livings during the Gilded Age?
14. Where were most immigrants working during the later 1800s?
15. What technological innovations made settlement of the Great Plains possible during the 1800s?
16. Where were most Indian reservations located in the late 1800s?
17. Before 1880, where did “Old Immigrants” come from?
18. After 1880, where did “New Immigrants” come from?
19. Whose goal was it to assimilate people of various cultures into U.S. society?
20. What almost totally eliminated Chinese immigration after 1882?
21. What was the name of New York City's big political machine?
22. Who was boss of Tammany Hall?
23. What were the two main immigration processing stations in the U.S.?
24. What was the result of the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
25. Did the Plains Indians believe in land ownership or shared usage of the land?
26. Which portion of the population in the 1880s supported reduced immigration?