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1
In which state did the first oil boom occur?
California
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Texas
2
Which of the following is a characterization of immigrants between 1880-1910?
they were Protestant
they were all women and children
They were different religions and ethnicities
they spoke english
3
What was the Indian Policy of the US during the mid 1800s?
Kill as many Native Americans as they could
Allow Native Americans to farm their own lands
Force Native Americans off their lands and onto reservations
Kill off the buffalo to starve off the Native Americans
4
Which of the following was a business that had the legal status of an individual?
Bonds
Stocks
corporation
Monopoly
5
What was the result of Plessy v Ferguson?
segregation was made illegal
segregation was considered "separate but legal"
It ended school segregation
It ended the Great Railway Strike
6
Which of the following was a leader in the settlement house movement?
Andrea Meeks
Pricillia Wright
Alice Holcomb
Jane Addams
7
What was the nickname of the industrial giants of the Gilded Age?
big business geniuses
Robber Barons
Bosses
intellectual giants
8
________ built sleeper cars for Trains.
Andre von Cartier
George Pullman
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Walter Rauschenbusch
9
Where were the "old" immigrants from?
mexico
northern and western europe
japan
china
10
What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?
to break up reservations and sell off the most valuable land
all of these
to help create machines for the mining industry
to expand the railroad system
11
Which of the following DID NOT help increase agricultural production during the late 1800s?
Bonanza farming
drought
New Machinery
influx of immigrants
12
Which company owned the majority of oil refineries in the US by 1875?
Chevron
Rockefeller Oil
Standard Oil
Carnegie Steel
13
W.E.B Du Bois believed segregation should be
made legal world wide
reduced over time
immediately ended
Go through the court system
14
Which president ended the Pullman Strike in 1892?
Ulysses S. Grant
William McKinely
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Pierce
15
____________ was the king of the railways.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Ofenkamp
William Graham
16
Capitalism is an economic system that does NOT
rely on laissez-faire economics
encourage profit making
rely on government direction
encourage small business owners
17
Which of the following was created to connect the Eastern and Western United States?
telephone
subway system
telegraph
transcontinental railroad
18
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad eventually meet in 1869?
Utah Territory
Oregon Territory
New Mexico Territory
Oklahoma Territory
19
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Chinese were only allowed to live in San Franscisco
Chinese immigrants could only work on farms
Chinese immigrants were banned for 10 years
All asians were kept out of public schools for 20 years
20
The underground railway systems in Boston and New York
subways
automobiles
streetcars
airplanes
21
What was a major issue of the farmers associations and the Populist Party?
taxes
debt
gold coinage
silver coinage
22
What is an entrepreneur?
economic system
risk taker of new business ventures
lawmaker
a western pioneer
23
Why did Russian Jews come to America?
religious integrity
escape persecution
land ownership
work
24
Which massacre saw the killing of 300 Sioux men, women and children by the US military?
Sand Creek Massacre
Wounded Knee Massacre
Reservation Massacre
Battle of Little Bighorn
25
Social Darwinism can defined as_____?
members of a species compete for survival
animals continue to change due to a need to survive
evolution
stronger people, businesses, and nations would prosper
26
Why did many African American, aka exodusters, move out to Kansas?
to escape the KKK
to own land
All of these
to escape the Black Codes
27
What was the Bessemer process?
it helped control big business
it helped mass produce textiles
it helped to quickly and cheaply produce Steel
it helped mass produce oil
28
Which government program gave away millions of acres to increase the population in the west?
Sherman Act
Homestead Act
Morril Act
Dawes Act
29
What is a horizontal integration in terms of a monopoly?
the supply chain is owned by a company
A Company owns all of a product to be marketed
30
After the creation of this, women were hired in businesses to create legible documents quickly
telegraph
typewriter
automobile
telephone
31
The Oklahoma Land Rush saw 50,000 settlers move onto __________?
Reservations
Farms
California
New Mexico
32
What was the purpose of mass marketing?
increased profits
decreased mobility
maximum production
control monopolies
33
Which Political Party was also known as the "Peoples Party"?
Populist
Democrats
Rebublican
Libertarian
34
What was the name of the first labor union?
Knights of Labor
AFL
CTA
Knights of Columbus
35
The Morrill Act was the helped to create which of the following?
public libraries
public colleges
freeways
public transportation
