Chapter 18—The Industrial Age: North, South, and West Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of ____ swept through whole cities. a. Smallpox b. Typhoid c. Measles d. swine flu e. Plague ANS: B REF: p. 332 The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 a. resulted from fears that the increasing number of Chinese immigrants would depress wages. b. banned immigration of Chinese workers for ten years and prohibited those in the U.S. from becoming citizens. c. was renewed twice, but didn't prevent wealthy Chinese from immigrating. d. All of these choices. e. None of these choices. ANS: D REF: p. 348 The Dawes Act a. established segregation in all southern states. b. introduced silver to the national currency. c. established Indian reservations across the country. d. divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land and put the land titles in a federal trust. e. was designed to stimulate the development of Southern Industry. ANS: D REF: p. 347 The tenement buildings in which immigrants often lived frequently lacked all of the following, except a. windows. b. indoor plumbing. c. heat. d. violent crime. e. thick walls. ANS: D REF: p. 332 | p. 335 The term "Gilded Age" was coined by a. Mark Twain. b. Andrew Carnegie. c. Charles Darwin. d. Herbert Spencer. e. William M. Tweed. ANS: A REF: p. 333 All of the following are true statements about the Populist Party except a. It emerged from the farmers' alliances and farm movements of the West. b. It embraced the gold standard. c. It sometimes championed nationalizing certain industries, increased government regulation, and a redistribution of wealth. d. Several of its candidates won Congressional seats in 1894. e. William Jennings Bryan was the Populist candidate for president in 1896. ANS: B REF: p. 349 The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of a. 640 acres. b. 120 acres. c. 1600 acres. d. 160 acres. e. 4,000 acres. ANS: D REF: p. 343 Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to move westward and a. grow wheat. b. build railroads connecting the East and West. c. establish towns. d. grow corn. e. raise hogs. ANS: B REF: p. 343 The Grange was a. a national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers' economic problems. b. a rural chain of savings banks for farmers. c. an organization that tried to unionize cowboys. d. a nativist organization committed to the exclusion of Chinese from the United States. e. a southern group comparable to the Ku Klux Klan. ANS: A REF: p. 350 Which of the following was not a factor that led to the Agrarian revolt of the late 19th century? a. b. c. d. e. high interest rates on farm mortgages higher shipping costs falling crop prices an introduced pest, the Chinese Beetle, devastating crops deflation of the dollar ANS: D REF: 350