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Question 1

Which material is best for building skyscrapers?

Accepted Answer

steel

Question 2

How did the transcontinental railroad help westward expansion?

Accepted Answer

It provide a faster and easier way to travel.

Question 3

Two main immigrant groups who built the railroad were the

Accepted Answer

Chinese and Irish

Question 4

Who invented the first light bulb?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 5

How many states were without banks by 1933?

Accepted Answer

28

Question 6

Which was an effect of the Erie Canal?

Accepted Answer

People were able to settle out West easier, Some goods dropped in price 95%.

Question 7

Why was the Hoover Dam built?

Accepted Answer

To bring water and power to the desert

Question 8

There was conflict between white people and Indians over the buffalo?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

General Armstrong Custer Lost Which Famous American West Encounter to the Plains Indians?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 10

When did the Stock Market Crash?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 11

Central Pacific and Union Pacific were the two companies that built the railroad

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

what are Indian reservations

Accepted Answer

A designated place for the native Americans to live.

Question 13

The continent is home of the Eifel Tower and Big Ben.

Accepted Answer

Europe

Question 14

What was barbed wire used for?

Accepted Answer

Fencing in Cattle

Question 15

What time was the unemployment at its highest?

Accepted Answer

1933

Question 16

What is “green gold”?

Accepted Answer

Trees/lumber

Question 17

Where are the Great Plains located?

Accepted Answer

In the middle of the United States

Question 18

Chinese were employed for building the Transcontinental Railroad

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

What did the Homestead Act do?

Accepted Answer

Gave free land to Western settlers

Question 20

Which was a major cause of the Great Depression of the 1930's?

Accepted Answer

speculation on the stock market in the 1920's

Question 21

What state did the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies meet?

Accepted Answer

Utah

Question 22

Who gave the Statue of Liberty to us?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 23

What did Fredrick Douglass do?

Accepted Answer

Wanted black men a chance to vote as well as black women

Question 24

Which industry was Richard Sears in?

Accepted Answer

Mail Order Catalouges

Question 25

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The Transcontinential Railroad was paid for by both businesses and Federal government.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Who signed the New Deal

Accepted Answer

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 28

The Hoover Damn was built to make money for the US government

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Where are the Great Plains located?

Accepted Answer

America

Question 30

Why did the Dust Bowl happen?

Accepted Answer

a series of droughts and unsuitable plowing techniques

Question 31

How many buffalo were roaming the Great Plains in the 1800’s?

Accepted Answer

30million

Question 32

What was the Underground Railroad?

Accepted Answer

a group of people that helped slaves escape

Question 33

dogs are not cats

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

What did Harriet Tubman do?

Accepted Answer

Freed slaves using the Underground Railroad.

Question 35

Unemployment was rapid during the _______.

Accepted Answer

Great Depression

Question 36

What lead to the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

long period of speculation

Question 37

The Western "cowboy" culture:

Accepted Answer

was based on the Mexican vaquero

Question 38

Under the Homestead Act, a settler could get ___ acres of land.

Accepted Answer

160

Question 39

Who gave the Statue of Liberty to us?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 40

October 1929

Accepted Answer

The stock market drops dramatically

Question 41

How much of America’s land is given away under the Homestead Act?

Accepted Answer

10%

Question 42

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Accepted Answer

She Published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852.

Question 43

what was Ellis island

Accepted Answer

a place were immigrants came to america

Question 44

Jacob Riis: Why were photos like this taken?

Accepted Answer

To show the destitute unsafe living conditions many in America were facing

Question 45

Where were standard time zones first adopted?

Accepted Answer

In the U.S

Question 46

What did the Public Works Administration (PWA) do?

Accepted Answer

Hired thousands of people to work on public projects.

Question 47

Andrew Carnegie was known for:

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 48

What did the Homestead Act do?

Accepted Answer

Gave free land to Western settlers

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