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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?