Social Studies Final Part 1

What did railroad barons form based on secret agreements to divide up business amongst themselves?

tracts of land

Who was responsible for laying a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866?

Which of the following required railroads to charge “reasonable and just” rates?

The growing railroad network redistributed the American population

Which of the following marked the beginning of today’s film industry?

Who introduced the Model T?

What is it called when unions represent workers in talking to management?

Apache leader

One of the factors leading to the end of the Cattle Kingdom was…

When “booms” were followed by “busts” what did boomtowns become?

Which suggested both the extravagant wealth of the late 1880s and the terrible property that lay underneath?

Which group united to reduce the power of railroads and banks over farmers?

Early railroad tracks were made of…

Which of the following could cause immigrants to be refused permission to enter the United States?

The standard gauge caused confusion and created gaps in train service

Women in the United States had more freedom than women in Europe and Asia had

Temperance is drinking alcohol after midnight

In 1884 who constructed a 10 story office building in Chicago?

In 1886 a group of national trade unions formed the AFL, or…

Who built a steam-powered model airplane?

Demands for a safer working environment grew after the…

Where was the nations first subway opened?

Who was one of the first African-American writers to gain fame worldwide?

Which legislation was a response to the public’s growing concern over trusts and monopolies?

All Americans welcomed the new wave of immigrants

Who’s book led Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act?

Suffragists were women who fought in the war

For most of their history, how did the Plains Native Americans meet their needs for food, clothing, shelter and tools?

Suffragists were women who fought in the war

Which of the following was Thomas Edison‘s most important invention?

Few laws limited business practices of railroad barons in the early days of the railroad

Who was elected president in 1896?

What happened as a result of the Prohibition Law?

What did the Grange create to encourage economic self-sufficiency for farmers?

After consolidation of the railroads, who controlled the nation’s rail traffic?

Which of the following was a writer who was both a realist and a regionalist?

What are people called who start businesses?

Prohibition is the passing of laws to prohibit the making or selling of alcohol in the United States

Most immigrants could only afford to travel to the United States in which of the following?

Who was the leader of the Lakota Sioux who refused to sell the Black Hills of the Dakotas?

What are people called who invest in corporations by buying stock?

Who were people who had secretly slipped across the Oklahoma border to claim land before the official Oklahoma Land Rush

African Americans who moved westward to work as cowhands were called vaqueros

Who introduced the direct primary election?

James Naismith painted scenes of the American West

Immigrants never had difficult journeys to the United States

In boomtowns, what were people called who practiced their own brand of justice without the benefit of a judge?

In 1869 which organization did Elizabeth Candy Stanton help found?

Who invented the typewriter?

Which group supported the government efforts to regulate industry?

Louis Ladimir did not invent, but he did vastly improve the…

Who was responsible for creating the assembly line?

What was the form of journalism made popular by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph?

What was a popular term for an up-to-date woman who pursued interests outside the home at the turn of the 20th century?

What was most of the silver found in rich mineral ores under the earth called?

Which of the following was founded by Jane Addams and became one of the most famous settlement houses?

In 1865 most Americans attended high school

George M. Pullman developed the Pullman sleeping car for overnight journeys

Which kinds of government financial aid and land grants paid for railroad construction?

Some Native Americans started the nativist movement

The growing railroad network helped American industry expand into…

Many African Americans left the South and moved West in search of a better life

Baseball had become a popular spectator sport by the early 1900s

Which symbol of hope greeted immigrants at New York harbor?

Towns located near railroads that were involved in the cattle industry were called Chisholm drive towns.

Which of the following was an immigrants greatest challenge once inside the United States?

What union leader led the Pullman Strike?

Gaining almost total control of an industry is called…

Which group called for shorter hours for worker and a national income tax?

In which city did African-American musicians develop a new kind of music called jazz?

Who invented the gasoline-powered model airplane?

When the transcontinental railroad was finally completed where did the two sets of tracks meet?

What did large railroad companies offer as incentives for their biggest customers?

Who worked with disadvantaged people and became a pioneer in the field of social work?

What transmitted speech?

During the Progressive Era, women became involved in many reform movements in addition to woman suffrage

In which of the following areas did many middle-class families live in the 1880s?

Who built transformers?

What is the act in which a symbol is burned into an animal’s hide to show ownership

When did the steelworkers’ union lose members?

Chief Joseph was the leader of the…

Vassar and Bryan Mawr are women’s colleges

main source of food for Native Americans

The open range is where large areas of land are not fenced in or divided into lots.

Which legislation limited the number of workers who could enter the United States for 10 years?

Most immigrants in the early 1900s came to the US seeking freedom from injustice and better economic opportunities

Sioux chief and military leader

Who was the steel industrialist who donated hundreds of millions of dollars as a philanthropist?

The expansion of railroads took money away from the iron and lumber industries

The Populist Party wanted to make the country’s goldbased currency system with a system based on which of the following?

Which dance celebrated the hoped-for day when white settlers would disappear and the buffalo would return?

In the late 1800s, who controlled many local city governments?

In which confrontation were more than 200 Lakota Sioux killed?

attacked by Colonel John Chivington’s troops

Boarding schools for Native Americans isolated Native Americans from their cultural traditions

By 1881, about how many African Americans had migrated from the Southern states into Kansas?

Which constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?

“Rustlers” tried to steal cattle from cattle drives

What was one of the frequent dangers on the cattle drives?