The West, Industrialization, and Urban America in the Late 1800's

Question 1

The famed Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of

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Silver

Question 2

What helped cause a steep decline in membership in the Knights of Labor?

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The Haymarket Riot

Question 3

The first transcontinental railroad was built by the Union Pacific and the

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Central Pacific

Question 4

The most infamous of the party bosses was

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Boss William Marcy Tweed

Question 5

Frank Sprague was most associated with

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mass transportation

Question 6

Asians, processing through Angel Island, were mostly

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young men

Question 7

Thousands of Chinese workers were imported to build the

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Central Pacific Railroad

Question 8

Immigrants arriving in the US on the East Coast were processed through

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Ellis Island

Question 9

When a single company controls an entire market it called a

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Monopoly

Question 10

Most urban working-class families lived in multi-storied apartment buildings called

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tenements

Question 11

The two most radical political ideologies introduced by European immigrants were Marxism and

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Anarchism

Question 12

A business that is treated by law as if it were a single person is called a

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corporation

Question 13

Even before automobiles, oil was in demand because it could

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be refined to make kerosene

Question 14

What did the Populist Party call for in the Election of 1892?

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A graduated income tax

Question 15

A closed-shop means that

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factories could only hire union laborers

Question 16

The Populist Party was formed through an alliance of labor unions and the

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Alliance Movement

Question 17

The application of the theory of evolution and natural selection to human society was called

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Social Darwinism

Question 18

In his Atlanta Compromise, Booker T. Washington called for blacks to

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gain an education and more skills

Question 19

What is NOT a true statement regarding the Knights of Labor?

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They wanted an open-shop

Question 20

The area of New York City where you could find many music publishers and musicians was called

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Tin Pan Alley

Question 21

The Free Enterprise System depends on

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supply and demand

Question 22

Just prior to the Sand Creek massacre, the Cheyenne Indians came to Fort Lyons to

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negotiate

Question 23

Nativists responded to increased immigration in the latter 1800's by

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pressuring government to limit or stop immigration

Question 24

To help protect American industries from foreign competition, Congress maintained

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tariffs on imported goods

Question 25

After surface deposits of gold were depleted, corporations engaged in

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quartz mining

Question 26

The Pendleton Act was an attempt by Congress to address problems associated with

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the patronage system

Question 27

The settlement of the Great Plains was facilitated by the railroads and

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government policies

Question 28

African-American journalist Ida B. Wells launched a campaign against

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lynching

Question 29

The most prominent, and militant, black leader at the turn of the century was

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WEB DuBois

Question 30

By calling their era the "Gilded Age," Mark Twain and Charles Warner were

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criticizing corruption in America

Question 31

By the 1890's, the bulk of immigrants came from

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Eastern and Southern Europe

Question 32

In the 1870's, former slave "Pap" Singleton helped set in motion the

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migration of Southern blacks to Kansas

Question 33

Jane Addams was most known for her work with

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settlement houses

Question 34

The value of all goods and services produced by a country is called the

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gross national product

Question 35

In contrast to department stores which offered many services, chain stores focused on

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low prices

Question 36

The legal basis for segregation, "separate but equal," was set by the Supreme Court in

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 37

Tammany Hall was the

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corrupt New York Democratic political machine

Question 38

The journalist who did the most to expose the harsh living conditions of immigrants was

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Jacob Riis

Question 39

Dry farming was accomplished by

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planting seeds deep in the earth

Question 40

Early prospectors looked for gold on the surface in the type of mining called

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Placer Mining

Question 41

The confrontation that led to the massacre of Indians at Wounded Knee was caused by

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the Indians leaving their reservation

Question 42

What was NOT one of the six factors in the indutrialization of America in the 1800's?

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Labor unions

Question 43

What was NOT a hardship faced by farmers on the Great Plains?

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Flooding

Question 44

The 1887 Dawes Act tried to help Indians by

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dividing Indian reservations into farms

Question 45

What was NOT a tactic used by business owners to fight unions?

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Sit-Down Strike

Question 46

In the Credit Mobilier scandal, investors got rich by

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skimming money from a construction company

Question 47

What impact did barbed wire have on the cattle industry?

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The wire impeded the free movement of cattle

Question 48

The only race/ethnic group to be oficially denied entry into the US were the

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Chinese

Question 49

The Gospel of Wealth, calling on the rich to engage in philanthropy, was advocated by

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 50

What is a TRUE statement about public education in the late 1800's?

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Immigrant children were Americanized by schools

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