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Use your notes from Reconstruction to Immigration to answer the questions below.
1. Interpret the political cartoon below (Remember that the AFL is a type of mainstream union).
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2. Use the space to the right of the image to interpret the political cartoon below.

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Read Chapter 4; Section 2 and answer the questions below.
3. How did the Homestead Act encourage settlement of the Plains?
4. List some of the issues that Homesteaders faced.
5. What was the Dawes Act? Explain why this attempt to assimilate the Natives to American culture
failed (Ch. 4/sec. 3).
6. When did Congress finally decided to grant citizenship to all Native Americans? When did Native
Americans in Arizona, Maine, and New Mexico finally gain the right to vote?
7. What rights did FDR’s Indian Reorganization Act give to Native Americans?
8. Explain the idea of laissez-fare government.
9. According to Chapter 5; section 2, why was it necessary to divide the country into four different time
zones? Was this plan effective?
10. According to Chapter 5; Section 4, why were businesses opposed to allowing their workers to form
unions?

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11. List some of the steps business owners took to prevent their workers from forming labor unions.
12. When labor disputes went to court, who did the judge(s) normally side with? Why?
13. Explain how worker dissatisfaction that led to the Great Railroad Strike. How did workers rebel
against the Railroads? How long did the battle last? What was the estimated property damage for this
strike?
14. List some of the conditions that the Knights of Labor fought for. How was this group different from
other labor unions of this time?
15. How did the Haymarket riot effect enrollment in the Knights of Labor? Why?

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16. Laissez-fare relies on
A. the government to regulate wages and prices.
B. high taxes and government debt to fund businesses.
C. high tariffs on foreign goods.
D. supply and demand to regulate wages and prices.
17. Labor unions were formed to
A. protect factory owners and improve workers’ wages.
B. improve workers’ wages and make factories safer.
C. make factories safer and prevent lockouts.
D. prevent lockouts and fight deflation.
18. How did increased steel production contribute to American industrialization?
A. decreased the number of jobs available for women.
B. discouraged the consolidation of industry.
C. improved transportation methods such as railroads
D. encouraged immigration by providing a safe work environment.
19. Read the primary source document number 3 (page. 220) and explain why you think the author of
the excerpt remembered those invents so vividly.
20. Answer questions 1 and 2 after reading the primary source excerpt on page 226.