1. The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads were linked at:
a. Denver, CO
b. San Francisco, CA
c. Promontory, UT
d. Abilene, KS
2. What was the goal of the Farmer’s Grange movement?
a. To open up government-owned land on the frontier to small family farming.
b. To allow the federal government to regulate railroad company rates and practices.
c. To provide employment benefits to laborers who had lost their jobs as a result of mechanized farming.
d. All of the above.
3. Federal troops were repeatedly used to break up labor strikes under what justification?
a. Strikes were a disruption to interstate commerce.
b. Strikes did not represent the general will of the people.
c. Industrialists were often suspected of being anarchists and socialists.
d. Labor strikes were often violent and were seen as a threat to the safety of the public.
4. Those who viewed American as a “melting pot” believed that immigrants:
a. stole jobs from Americans
b. should assimilate with native-born people by abandoning their native customs and languages.
c. provided much-needed diversity to the nation.
d. should live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands.
5. Why were their fewer jobs in rural areas during the late 1800’s?
a. There was less of a demand for agricultural products.
b. Farmers had no way of selling their goods to people in other parts of the country.
c. Technological advances had reduced the need for farm labor.
d. All of the above.
