Social Studies Final Part 1

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

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

Where was the nations first subway opened?

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

Who built transformers?

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

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

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

Early railroad tracks were made of…

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

The growing railroad network redistributed the American population

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

Which constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?

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

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

Sioux chief and military leader

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

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

Who introduced the direct primary election?

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

In 1869 which organization did Elizabeth Candy Stanton help found?

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

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

What union leader led the Pullman Strike?

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

Temperance is drinking alcohol after midnight

attacked by Colonel John Chivington’s troops

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

tracts of land

The standard gauge caused confusion and created gaps in train service

Who was responsible for creating the assembly line?

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

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

Some Native Americans started the nativist movement

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

James Naismith painted scenes of the American West

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

What transmitted speech?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gaining almost total control of an industry is called…

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

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

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

In 1865 most Americans attended high school

What are people called who start businesses?

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

The growing railroad network helped American industry expand into…

Who introduced the Model T?

Who built a steam-powered model airplane?

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

In which confrontation were more than 200 Lakota Sioux killed?

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

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

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

Vassar and Bryan Mawr are women’s colleges

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

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

main source of food for Native Americans

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

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

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

Apache leader

Suffragists were women who fought in the war

Suffragists were women who fought in the war

All Americans welcomed the new wave of immigrants

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

Who was elected president in 1896?

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

Immigrants never had difficult journeys to the United States

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

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

Who invented the gasoline-powered model airplane?

Which group supported the government efforts to regulate industry?

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

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

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

Chief Joseph was the leader of the…

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

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

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

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

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

“Rustlers” tried to steal cattle from cattle drives

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

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

Demands for a safer working environment grew after the…

Who invented the typewriter?

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

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

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

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

When did the steelworkers’ union lose members?

What happened as a result of the Prohibition Law?

Which symbol of hope greeted immigrants at New York harbor?