Gilded Age Unit Test Review

Question 1

The Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade and prohibited monopolies

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What is the monetary system in which the government gives silver or gold in exchange for paper currency?

Accepted Answer

Bimetallism

Question 3

Over 300 Sioux indians died at the Massacre at Wounded Knee

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Who invented the typewriter?

Accepted Answer

Christopher Shoals

Question 5

"New Immigrants" were highly skilled

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Who was the Populist Party&#x27;s nominee for president in 1896?

Accepted Answer

William J. Bryan

Question 7

Social Darwinism is the controversial belief only the strongest or fittest people make it to the top of society.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

What is the name for the vast grassland east of the Rocky Mountains expanding from Texas all the way to Canada?

Accepted Answer

Great Plains

Question 9

What was the name of the act that granted federal lands to states to help finance agricultural colleges?(i.e. A&M)

Accepted Answer

Morrill Act of 1862

Question 10

Andrew Carnegie famously used verticle integration to ___________________.

Accepted Answer

join all the processes of an industry under one company

Question 11

Which phrase translates to "hands off" and supports the principle that government should not interfere with business

Accepted Answer

Laissez Faire

Question 12

Who was the general in charge of the U.S. Calvery at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Accepted Answer

George Custer

Question 13

How did the federal government finance the construction of a national railroad system?

Accepted Answer

It provided land grants to railroad companies

Question 14

Workers who tried to unionize or organize strikes against an employer were often blacklisted.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Who is widely credited for starting the Grange movement?

Accepted Answer

Oliver Hudson Kelley

Question 16

The Interstate Commerce Act marked the first time the federal government stepped in to regulate the private sector

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Which political party supported the gold standard?

Accepted Answer

Republican Party

Question 18

John D Rockafeller dominated which industry?

Accepted Answer

Oil

Question 19

What initiated the conflict between Plains Indians and American Settlers?

Accepted Answer

Encroachment onto native lands

Question 20

The main reason why the Dawes Act failed to assimilate Native Americans was because they didn&#x27;t know farming

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Which Lakota (Sioux) chief was largely responsible for uniting tribes to defeat the U.S. Army at Little Big Horn?

Accepted Answer

Sitting Bull

Question 22

Andrew Carnegie dominated which industry?

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 23

The name of Alexander Graham Bell&#x27;s company was American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T).

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

The Ghost Dance movement was supposed to help restore the Native Americans way of life.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Which of the following WAS NOT one of the main rights 19th century labor unions fought for?

Accepted Answer

Paid Time Off/Holidays

Question 26

What is the common name given to the houses settlers on the range made out of grass and dirt?

Accepted Answer

Soddies

Question 27

How did the Homestead Act support settlement of the Great Plains?

Accepted Answer

Provided a legal method for settlers to acquire property rights

Question 28

In 1872 corruption in the railroad system became pubic with the __________________ scandal.

Accepted Answer

Credit Mobilier

Question 29

American cowboys learned their trade from Native Americans

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

What is the term used to describe a massive single-crop farm usually owned by railroad companies or private investors?

Accepted Answer

Bonanza Farm

Question 31

Vertical or Horizontal: Which one is considered a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Accepted Answer

Horizontal Integration

Question 32

What is the name given to the process of transforming iron into steel?

Accepted Answer

Bessemer Process

Question 33

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 34

In Munn v. Illinois states won the right to regulate railroads for the benefit of farmenrs

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

The Chisholm Trail was a major cattle route from Texas to California

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

Which of the following WAS NOT supported by the Populist Party in the late 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Establishment of a Native American Bill of Rights

Question 37

Which plains animal was most important to Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

Buffalo/Bison

Question 38

Barbed Wire had a positive impact on the development of the Great Plains.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

Edwin L. Drake is credited for discovering an efficient way to retreive oil from beneath the Earth&#x27;s surface?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

What do you call a settler who farms land given to him by the federal government?

Accepted Answer

Homesteader

Gilded Age Unit Test Review

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