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Western Frontier and The Gilded Age Part I

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Question 1
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A __________had only to be the head of a household or at least 21 years of age to claim a 160-acre parcel of land. Settlers from all walks of life including newly arrived immigrants, farmers without land of their own from the East, single women and former slaves came to meet the challenge of “proving up” and keeping this__________ . Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm for 5 years before they were eligible to “prove up.” A total filing fee of $18 was the only money required. . . .
—National Park Service, www.nps.gov (accessed November 14, 2013)
Question 2
2.

Choose all correct answers. The legislation described above led to :

Question 3
3.

Which of the following responses describe the photograph above.
Choose all correct answers:

Question 4
4.

Choose all responses that apply to his excerpt:

Question 5
5.


Select all correct responses:

Question 6
6.

Choose all responses that that describe the photograph above:

Question 7
7.

Select all responses that would complete diagram above:

Question 8
8.

Choose all reponses that led to the passage of this legislation:

Question 9
9.

Choose all responses that apply to this excerpt:

Question 10
10.

What were the results of rapid growth and a large influx of immigration to U.S. cities in the early 20th century?

Question 11
11.

Select all responses that describe excerpt cited above.

Question 12
12.


Select all responses that describe the excerpts cited above:

Question 13
13.

Select all responses that are associated with voting

Question 14
14.

Identify and explain the three Reconstruction Amendments

Question 15
15.

Select all responses associated with the rights of the accused:

Question 16
16.

Select phrase that applies to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government
Question 17
17.

Select the phrase that recognizes enfranchisement of citizens:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government
Question 18
18.

Select the phrase that list the rights you were born with:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government
Question 19
19.

List all your rights protected by the first amendment

Question 20
20.
The most important amendment to a Political Boss during the "Gilded Age" was the __________ because it defined __________ and provide for__________ under the law. Citizenship allowed recent immigrants to work, but more importantly for the political machine it allowed immigrants to __________.
Question 21
21.

Select all responses that facilitate trade.

Question 22
22.

The Meat inspection Act and the Pure Food act are examples of Laissez- Faire economics.

Question 23
23.

Place the Acts in the era that were ratified.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  • Chinese exclusion Act of 1882
  • Homestead Act 1862
  • Meat inspection Act of 1906
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
  • Dawes Act of 1887
  • Acts passed during Manifest Destiny and The Gilded Age
  • Acts passed during Reconstruction
Question 24
24.
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Free Land
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enfranchisement
investigative journalist during the Gilded Age who exposes corruption in Business and Government
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16th amendment
Ghettos
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Chinese Exclusion Act
voting
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civic responsibility
Food Handlers card requirement
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Homestead Act
Assimilation
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Dawes Act
establishes an income tax
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The Jungle
Merit Exams
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Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair
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Tenements
nativism
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Muckrakers
jury duty
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Pendleton Civil Service Act