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US History – Honors Unit 5 (Ch. 13-16): Expansion: Rewards and Costs (1850-1915) Mr. Stamcoff Total = 74 pts Define the following terms – 1 pt each (Total = 42 pts) Transcontinental railroad Bessemer process Social Darwinism Monopoly Vertical consolidation Economies of scale Trust Sherman Antitrust Act Division of labor Socialism Collective bargaining Scab Pacific Railway Acts Reservation Battle of Little Bighorn Soddie Bonanza farm Free silver The Grange Interstate Commerce Act Gilded Age Laissez-faire Blue law Civil service Ghetto Steerage Chinese Exclusion Act Suburb Political machine Graft Settlement house Nativism Assimilation Niagara Movement Vaudeville Yellow journalism Ragtime Poll tax Grandfather clause Jim Crow Plessy v. Ferguson Rural delivery system Study Questions – 2 pts each (Total = 30 pts) Ch. 13 1) How did new railroads and improvements in railway technology help spur economic growth? 2) What were the positive and negative effects of rapid industrial growth? 3) What steps did employers take to fight labor unions? 4) How did the emergence of beliefs in social Darwinism and/or socialism reflect the new challenges facing American society in the late 1800s? Ch. 14 5) How did large mining, ranching, and farming industries evolve in the West? 6) Why did Populism take hold in the late 1800s, and what were its main goals? 7) Evaluate the impact of the federal government’ policy of assimilation of Native Americans in the late 1800s. 8) Analyze the effects of the federal government’s monetary policies, such as tariffs and the gold standard, on the following groups: (a) farmers; (b) businesses and banks. Ch. 15 9) How did business influence politicians during the Gilded Age? 10) What were the advantages and disadvantages of political machines for urban residents? 11) How did the settlement movement seek to help the needy? 12) How and why did the experiences of Chinese immigrants differ from the experiences of immigrants from Italy and Russia? Ch. 16 13) Compare the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois. 14) Where and how did ragtime and jazz originate? 15) Why were more women entering the work force in the early 1900s?