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QR Challenge: STAAR U.S. History Review Part 1

QuestionAnswer
Homestead ActNo
Dawes Act
Federal government wants Native Americans to give up their culture; resorts to sending Native American children to white boarding schoolsNo
Get cattle to railroads due to large northern marketNo
Barbed wireNo
Pacific Railway ActNo
Laissez-faireNo
EntrepreneursNo
Federal land grantsNo
Creates 4 time zones to enable scheduling of trainsNo
abundance of natural resources and a large workforce due to increased immigrationNo
Organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single personNo
Carnegie uses the Bessemer process to allow for mass production of steel, which is in high demand for building cities and Carnegie controls with vertical integrationNo
Horizontal integration is Carnegie owning all steel factories while vertical integration is controlling all aspects of the steel industry from mining the iron ore to selling steel productsNo
1. Rockefeller creates standard oil and becomes largest kerosene producer; 2. He buys out all competing refineries; 3. Builds pipelines to cut out shipping costs of oilNo
1. Can produce goods more cheaply and efficiently ; 2. Often able to continue to operate in poor economic times by cutting prices to increase salesNo
Created to provide a way to help workers improve their working conditions, especially wages.No
Labor unions often interfered with the property rights and profits of large corporationsNo
1. Used lockouts to lock union workers out without pay; 2. Forced workers to sign contracts before hire agreeing not to join unionsNo
Haymarket RiotNo
1. Convince companies to recognize & bargain with unions; 2. Closed shops where companies only hire union workers; 3. Agree to 8-hour work dayNo
Pullman StrikeNo
Movement to increase farmers’ political power and work for legislation that benefits farmersNo
1. Farm prices dropped due to new technology; 2. High tariffs increased prices of goods needed by farmers to produce cropsNo
From Eastern and Southern Europe including Greeks, Poles, Russians, Armenians, Slavs; came to America to escape religious persecution & avoid forced military serviceNo
Ellis Island was processing center for immigrants coming from Europe and Angel Island was barracks in California used as holding placed for immigrants from Asia.No
The preference for native-born people and the desire to limit immigration.No
Many nativists believed that there were too many Chinese in America causing problems and disrupting efforts of Labor UnionsNo
1. Targeted votes from large # of new immigrants by providing what they need; 2. Controlled the city’s financesNo
Gospel of Wealth was philosophy that wealthy Americans should use their wealth to better society while Social Darwinism was the belief that human society also evolved through competition where those who were wealthy were the fittest.No

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