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The vast grassland extending through the
west-central portion of the United States.
a. Great Plains
b. Ghost Dance
c. Chisholm Trail
d. George A. Custer
This was supposed to "Americanize" Native Americans by
encouraging in them the desire to own property
and to farm reservation land distributed to Native American
families.
a. Dawes Act
b. Assimilation
c. Great Plains
d. Ghost Dance
This colonel's bad judgment in attacking Native
American warriors at the Little Bighorn River resulted in
his death and that of all his troops.
a. Ghost Dance
b. Chisholm Trail
c. George A. Custer
d. Grange
This was the major cattle route from San
Antonio, Texas, through Oklahoma to Kansas.
a. Great Plains
b. Ghost Dance
c. Chisholm Trail
d. George A. Custer
This ritual was supposed to restore the
Native American way of life.
a. Assimilation
b. Great Plains
c. Ghost Dance
d. Chisholm Trail
A minority group's adoption of the beliefs
and way of life of the dominant culture.
a. Assimilation
b. Great Plains
c. Ghost Dance
d. Chisholm Trail
The government began taking these out
of circulation after the Civil War.
a. Greenbacks
b. Bimetallism
c. Populist Party
d. Republican Party
This was a monetary system in which the
government would give people silver or gold in
exchange for paper currency.
a. Grange
b. Greenbacks
c. Bimetallism
d. Populist Party
members of this party were mainly business
owners and bankers from industrialized areas.
a. Populist Party
b. Republican Party
c. Soddy
d. Exodusters
This organization started out as a social outlet
and educational forum for isolated farm families.
It soon became a political voice for farmers.
a. Grange
b. Greenbacks
c. Bimetallism
d. Populist Party
This political party proposed an increase in the
money supply, a graduated income tax, and a
federal loan program.
a. Populist Party
b. Republican Party
c. Soddy
d. Exodusters
ome made of bricks of dirt that provided warmth
but no protection from snakes and insects.
a. Soddy
b. Exodusters
c. omestead Act
d. Dugout
Offered 160 acres of land free to any
head of household
a. omestead Act
b. morril Act
c. Dugout
d. Bonanza Farms
Gave federal land to the states to help
finance agricultural colleges
a. omestead Act
b. morril Act
c. Dugout
d. Bonanza Farms
An enormous farm on which a single crop
is grown
a. omestead Act
b. morril Act
c. Dugout
d. Bonanza Farms
Underground home that provided warmth in the
winter but no protection from snakes and insects.
a. Soddy
b. Exodusters
c. omestead Act
d. Dugout
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a. Republican Party
b. Soddy
c. Exodusters
d. omestead Act
Which of the following marked the end of the
wars between the federal government and the
Plains Indians?
a. the Treaty of Fort Laramie
a. the horse
b. the buffalo
a. the railroad
b. barbed wire
c. sheep ranching
d. severe weather
The mexican vaquero influenced the American
cowboy in all of the following areas Y Y
a. politics
b. language
c. clothing
d. food
Demand for beef in the East contributed to
b. gold only.
b. nomadic living
c. buffalo hunting
d. individual farming
Which of the following was considered an
Indian Victory?
a. Wounded Knee
a. Edwin L. Drake
b. enry Bessemer
c. Christopher Sholes
a. enry Bessemer
b. Christopher Sholes
a. Edwin L. Drake
b. enry Bessemer
c. Christopher Sholes
a. Edwin L. Drake
b. enry Bessemer
c. Christopher Sholes
a. enry Bessemer
b. Christopher Sholes
b. monopoly
c. Vertical Integration
d. orizontal Integration
made it illegal for corporations to interfere
with free interstate or international trade
a. monopoly
b. Vertical Integration
c. orizontal Integration
b. Social Darwinism
c. John Rockefeller
d. "mother" Jones
A corporation made up of many companies that
receives certificates entitling them to dividends
on profits earned
a. Trust
b. monopoly
c. Vertical Integration
d. orizontal Integration
A market in which one company has complete
control over an industry's production, quality,
wages paid, and prices charged
a. Trust
b. monopoly
c. Vertical Integration
d. orizontal Integration
Process by which a company buys out all
it's competitors.
a. Trust
b. monopoly
c. Vertical Integration
d. orizontal Integration
Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in
steel and donated most of his profits
a. John Rockefeller
b. "mother" Jones
c. Pullman
d. Andrew Carnegie
Organized coal miners, their wives, and their
children as well as mill children to fight for better
working conditions
a. John Rockefeller
b. "mother" Jones
c. Pullman
d. Andrew Carnegie
Created trusts and was criticized as a robber
baron while serving as head of the Standard
Oil Company
a. John Rockefeller
b. "mother" Jones
c. Pullman
d. Andrew Carnegie
Railroad-car mogul who built a town to
house his employees
a. John Rockefeller
b. "mother" Jones
c. Pullman
d. Andrew Carnegie
Which of the following á allowed manufacturers
to build their factories away from rivers?
a. Electricity
b. Steel beams
c. Railroads
d. The telephone
Why was Pullman, Illinois, an unusual
town?
a. It had one main industry.
b. Industrialization
c. government regulation
b. monopolies
c. Competition
d. interstate commerce
What was the goal of the Interstate
Commerce Act?
a. to build new railroads
a. steel industry.
b. textile industry.
c. railroad industry.
a. Oil
b. Wood
c. Iron
d. Coal
Which of the following groups of groups economically
benefited most from the inventions of the telephone and
the typewriter.
a. married men
b. Former Slaves
c. Recent Immigrants
d. White Women
Which of the following was a true of the natural
resources needed for the new industrial age?
b. Industrial leaders
a. mixed salad
c. Gentlemen's Agreement
d. Graft
Which term is the name of a restriction on
immigration passed by Congress?
a. Chinese Exclusion Act
b. Gentlemen's Agreement
c. Graft
d. Political machines
Through which place did immigrants arriving on
the East Coast pass before gaining entry into
the United States?
a. Ellis Island
b. mixed salad
d. Gentlemen's Agreement
Which term is the name of a restriction on
emigration worked out between the United
States and Japan?
a. Chinese Exclusion Act
b. Gentlemen's Agreement
c. Graft
d. Political machines
This was any type of unethical or illegal
use of political influence for personal gain.
a. Graft
b. Political machines
c. Nativism
d. Pendleton Act
These were organized groups that controlled
the activities of a political party in a city.
a. Graft
b. Political machines
c. Nativism
d. Pendleton Act
This authorized an independent civil service
commission to make government appointments
based on the merit system.
a. Graft
b. Political machines
c. Nativism
d. Pendleton Act
Favoring American-born people over
foreign-born people
a. Graft
b. Political machines
c. Nativism
d. Pendleton Act
The main immigration processing station
in San Francisco was called
a. Ellis Island
b. Tammany all
c. Angel Island
d. ull ouse
The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion
Act was to
a. decrease Chinese immigration.
b. social reformers.
c. political machines.
d. industrial workers.
Tammany all was the name of
a. low tariffs.
b. high tariffs.
b. political reform
c. social reform
d. economic reform
Which of the following does a describe a
typical supporter of a political machine?
a. Poor
b. Urban
c. factory worker
d. opposed to immigration
Which of the following is an example of
graft?
a. using a cartoon to illustrate political fraud
a. Grover Cleveland
b. Chester A. Arthur
c. Benjamin arrison
d. Rutherford B. ayes
Which of the following issues prompted the
assassination of President Garfield?
a. Tariffs
b. Kickbacks
c. Immigration
b. drug use
c. race riots
b. George Plunkitt
c. Jean de Crevecoeur
d. William Tweed
New immigrants, in the late 1800s, were
`Ylikely to come from
a. Asia
b. Eastern Europe
c. Western Europe
d. Southern Europe
The main purpose of the 1879 New York City
law calling for the building of dumbbell
tenements was to
a. alleviate, or improve, slum conditions
b. Catholics
c. naturalized citizens
d. of Anglo-Saxon descent
Which of the following was an old
immigrant group?
a. Germans
b. Poles
c. Italians
d. Chinese
These pioneer aviators helped make
airmail possible.
a. Orville and Wilbur Wright
b. Poll Tax
c. Segregation
a. Skyscraper
b. Central Park
c. Brooklyn Bridge
b. Central Park
c. Brooklyn Bridge
a. Skyscraper
b. Central Park
c. Brooklyn Bridge
a. Poll Tax
b. Segregation
d. Grandfather Clause
These laws were passed in the South to
prevent white and black people from intermixing
and to prevent blacks from achieving equality
a. Poll Tax
b. Segregation
d. Grandfather Clause
This had to be paid to gain access to the
voting booth in many Southern States
a. Poll Tax
b. Segregation
d. Grandfather Clause
This was added to the constitutions of several Southern
states to enable white people to vote who may have
been kept from doing so by other restrictions
a. Poll Tax
b. Segregation
d. Grandfather Clause
The factor that prevented the greatest number of
children from attending public high schools was
a. racism.
b. poverty.
c. language differences.
d. transportation problems.
Southern states sometimes used a
grandfather clause to allow them to
a. keep uneducated whites from exercising their
right to vote.
a. subways.
b. skyscrapers.
c. airplanes.
d. suspension bridges.
Daniel Burnham's plan for the city of
Chicago emphasized
a. blocks of skyscrapers.
a. European literature.
b. professional baseball.
c. vaudeville theater.
d. amusement parks.
All of the following were trends in
education around 1900 Y Y
a. more students attending both elementary
and high school.
c. growth of kindergartens.
b. Ida B. Wells
c. Booker T.Washington
a. poll taxes
b. grandfather clauses
d. literacy tests
The popularity of bicycling and amusement
parks reflected which trend of the 1900s?