Unit 17 U.S. History Questions

Unit 17 Questions

Questions on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”

1.  Why was the frontier to be closed?

2.  How had the frontier been an important reality in American settlement?

3.  How had the frontier affected the American mindset?

4.  How did western migration in the U.S. change the character of American life      and of the American population from what it had been originally on the East         Coast?

5.  What did Turner say was the most important effect of the frontier?

Lesson 85

1.  What is social Darwinism?

2.  What English author applied survival of the fittest to society?

3.  Who was a leading American spokesman for social Darwinism?

4.  How was social Darwinism a justification for the accumulation of wealth?

5.  According to social Darwinism, what happened to the poor, disabled, and          economically unsuccessful?

6.  What is the social gospel?

7.  What are some examples of social gospel activity?

8.  What is true about the social gospel and what is extreme about it?

US. History Unit 15 questions

Unit 15 Questions

Lesson 71

1.  What does the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit?

2.  What was the Tammany Hall machine or the Tweed Ring?

3.  What were some of the reasons why Democrats regained power in the         South?

Lesson 72

1.  Where did most cattle drives begin and end?

2.  What areas of the country had large percentages of foreign-born immigrants or children of immigrants?

3.  What services grew in the cities to meet the public’s needs?

Lesson 73

1.  Why was a transcontinental railroad promoted?

2.  What two companies built the transcontinental railroad?

3.  What immigrant groups were hired in large numbers by the railroad companies?

Lesson 74

1.  What does it mean to “wave the bloody shirt”?

2.  The electoral votes from what states were questioned in the election?

3.  How was the controversy decided?

Lesson 75

1.  How was American life a mixture of good and bad in the late nineteenth century?

2.  How can the city pull people away from God?

3.  In what ways is American life today better than it was 100 years ago, and in what ways is it not as good?