chapter 5-6

Question 1

rapid growth of cities

Answer 1

urbanization

Question 2

important immigrant processing station

Answer 2

ellis island

Question 3

blended nationalities that create a single culture

Answer 3

melting pot

Question 4

10 story or higher building with steel frames

Answer 4

skyscraper

Question 5

inventor of the elevator

Answer 5

Elisha Otis

Question 6

public system to move large numbers of people inexpensively

Answer 6

mass transit

Question 7

the last decades of the 19th century

Answer 7

glided age

Question 8

similar consumer patterns across society

Answer 8

mass culture

Question 9

sensationalist publisher

Answer 9

william randolph hearst

Question 10

wrote inspiring novels about sucess in america

Answer 10

horatio alger

Question 11

a rail link between the east and the wast

Answer 11

transcontinental railroad

Question 12

the site of a victory by indians led by crazy horse

Answer 12

little big horn

Question 13

a specific area set aside by the US government for the use of indians

Answer 13

reservation

Question 14

legislation that provided farm plots for people willing to live on and develop the lane for five years

Answer 14

homestead act

Question 15

to absorb into the culture of a population or group

Answer 15

assimilate

Question 16

a crop grown not for its own use but but to be sold for cash

Answer 16

cash crop

Question 17

a system by which branded cattles were allowed to graze freely on unfenced property

Answer 17

open range

Question 18

tradtionally immigrants had once come to america for economic oppportunity and

Answer 18

freedom

Question 19

travel accommodation for most immigrants to the united states

Answer 19

3rd class sometimes didnt have their own room

Question 20

most new immigrants lived in cities

Answer 20

to find work

Question 21

Rural to urban migration was primarily motivated by

Answer 21

steady employment

Question 22

which invention made the uilding and use of skyscrapers feasible

Answer 22

elevators

Question 23

which group of people made up the majority of immigrants to america before 1870

Answer 23

North and West Europeans

Question 24

which of these factors pulled immigrants to the united states?

Answer 24

economic opportunity and freedom

Question 25

the first reliable streetcars were powered by

Answer 25

eletricity

Question 26

most midwestern cities were established near

Answer 26

waterways

Question 27

zoning laws were designed primarily to

Answer 27

oranganize lane use within a city

Question 28

how did mass culture signify a change in american life

Answer 28

bought similar goods

Question 29

the midlles class lifestyle of the glided age featured

Answer 29

a desire to acquire goods

Question 30

comsumtion patterns were most influenced by

Answer 30

advertising

Question 31

after the civil was the cost of living decreased because

Answer 31

price of manufactored goods decreased

Question 32

what wass one of the dangers living in a tenement

Answer 32

poor sanitation and ventilation

Question 33

urban leaders counted on schools to

Answer 33

Assimilate immmigrants

Question 34

hoow did cities address the problems by urban living

Answer 34

police firefighter and trash pickup

Question 35

during reconstuction southern agriculture

Answer 35

depended on cotton

Question 36

how were southern blacks civil rights revooked after the reconstruction

Answer 36

state local laws

Question 37

what was a factor that limited the economic recovery of the south after the civil war

Answer 37

lack of capital, shortage of skilled labor

Question 38

which of the following most accurately describes agriculture in the south after the civil war

Answer 38

depended on cotton

Question 39

what threatened the livlihoods of southern farmers

Answer 39

Boll Wheevil

Question 40

describe the effects of the thirteenth fourteenth and fithteenths admendments of lives of southerners

Answer 40

blacks had more political and economical freedom

Question 41

how did southern blacks lose rights in he years after the 13,14, and 15th admendments?

Answer 41

state and local governments passed Jim Crow laws

Question 42

theklu klux klan

Answer 42

used terror a d intimidation to keep blacks from exercising their rights

Question 43

how di the southg keep railroad constuctions costs down

Answer 43

used prison labor and lobbied congress for funds

Question 44

which native americans farmed?

Answer 44

Pueblas. and navajos

Question 45

The first great boom in the wast was spurred by

Answer 45

Mining

Question 46

the open range system of raising livestock was orignially developed by

Answer 46

mexicna americans

Question 47

the assimilation of native americans was a goal of the

Answer 47

dawes act

Question 48

which of the following was an effect pf the trancontinential railroad

Answer 48

populatio of the west increased

Question 49

how did new railroads benefit western cattle ranchers

Answer 49

could transport cattle to eastern markets

Question 50

starting in the mid 1800s hoards of people traveled to the west out of desire to

Answer 50

get rich by finind gold or silver

Question 51

how did the US government respond to attacks by Sioux indians in eastern minnesota

Answer 51

Pushed the indians into the Dakotas

Question 52

how did railroads influence the growth of western territories?

Answer 52

Towns would spring up along railroads