SOL 8 Test Review

Who was the powerful banker and Wall Street financier who created U.S. Steel?

Who started the NAACP and believed that education meant nothing without social equality?

What city completed the first subway system?

Who believed that black equality depended on vocational education and economic success?

Who started the Standard Oil Company?

What experience taught immigrant children the most about American culture?

Who founded the American Railway Union?

Teddy Roosevelts campaign slogan pledging fair treatment for business, workers, and the public?

Who made his fortune in the railroad industry?

Law passed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country?

Where did most immigrants come from before 1871?

The19th Amendment was a result of women’s participation in industrial production for what war?

What was the major goal of the trusts or monopolies?

Ended when the Penn. state militia was used to end the strike and arrest the leaders?

Group that led Congress to pass child labor laws, as well as laws that protected the consumer?

Doctrine stating that government generally should not interfere in private business.

Union which welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers and was harmed by the Haymarket Riot?

Scottish-immigrant who made his fortune in the steel industry before selling to J.P. Morgan?

Leader who was instrumental in women gaining the right to vote?

The Haymarket Riot contributed to the decline of what labor union?

Legislation that offered free land in the west to anyone that would live on and farm the land?

Reform that allows voters to place a measure on the ballot and vote on the proposed measure?

Amendment which provided for the direct election of senators?

What President was known as the “Trustbuster” because he attacked harmful trusts?

What invention resulted in an increase in wheat production?

Innovation by Henry Ford used to organize factory work?

Election in which all citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections?

Created by the combination of standardized parts and division of labor?

Who came up with a way to make stronger steel faster and cheaper?

Who invented the airplane?

Process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by their legislature?

What laws were passed to segregate whites and blacks after the Civil War?

The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to stop the growth of _________.

In the late 19th century, most new immigrants settled in the ________.

Who led an anti-lynching crusade?

Name given to Woodrow Wilson’s progressive program of reform?

Procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election?

Who invented the telephone?

Antitrust legislation that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act?

What immigrant group helped build the Transcontinental Railroad?

What region of the country benefited the most from the invention of the mechanical reaper?

What President was known as the "Trustbuster" because he broke up trusts? (hint: Think bear.)

What labor union only organized skilled workers and was started by Samuel Gompers?

Where did most European immigrants arrive when they completed their voyage to the U.S.?

Who came up with the use of electricity as a source of power and light?