Growth of a Nation TEST Review Game

Where were most of the immigrants from that worked on the transcontinental railroad?

Why did millions of people RUSH to California in 1849?

Which of the following was NOT a complaint of workers in the early factories?

In this unit, what is a muckraker?

Besides Ellis Island, what was the other major immigration entry point in the United States?

In what industry did Cornelius Vanderbilt make his fortune?

Which of the following was NOT a problem in the cities?

What business resulted in the worst disaster in New York when a fire broke out in the factory floor of a business?

Who was sent to explore the new territory purchased by President Thomas Jefferson?

The tall poorly built apartment buildings in the cities that housed many people in the cities were called _.

What is the term that allowed for limited government involvement in the activities of business practices?

What law gave people 160 acres of free land to anyone who would move west and farm it for at least 5 years?

What was the biggest real estate deal in U.S. history?

The theory based on Charles Darwin's ideas that natural selection would allow the best suited people to survive was _.

What is the process in which companies producing similar products merge?

In the video Paper Sons & Daughters, why were they referred to as "paper"?

People moved from rural to urban areas when factories and technology exploded in the United States.

The name for the period in history where there was a "superficial glitter" of the new wealth & covered up issues?

What was the politcal movement that sought advancement for farmers and laborers?

How did people journey west (transportation)?

What group of travelers took a short cut to get to the West, but wound up traveling 400 extra miles/

What was the iron horse?

What is it called when negotiations between labor and management take place for better workinng conditions?

What made travel from East to West go from 6 months to 6 days?

What is the process in which a company buys out its suppliers?

What was the name of the frontier homes dug into a hill or made from sod?

Who built the most powerful banking house in the world and loaned the government money during the Panic of 1907?

What is it called when a person or company has complete control over an industry (oil, steel, banking, etc.)?

Who was the leader of the U.S. cavalry that suffered a major disaster at the Battle of Wounded Knee?

What closed off the western frontier forever?

What group of people lost their land and way of life due to American expansion?

What big business man perfected the Bessemer process and became THE giant in the steel industry?

What was the process of a people giving up their beliefs and culture to become a part of white culture?

Which of the following did people NOT emigrate to the U.S. for?

Who was the big business leader and the head of the Standard Oil Company?

What animal was decimated by the Americans as they moved West taking the spirit animal from the Native Americans?