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#USHistory #American West #Gilded Age #Urbanization #Immigration #1865-1914
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1
What linked America through transporting goods, ideas, and people during the 1800s?
Railroads
Internet
Airports
Canals
2
Which Gilded Age industrialist created a monopoly through horizontal integration?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Charles Schwab
J.P. Morgan
3
Which of the following countries did "old immigrants" come from?
Italy
Poland
Russia
France
4
T/F Red Cloud fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
False
True
5
Which of the following is NOT what the video is about?
Immigration
Unions
Population growth
Urbanization
6
Which of the following terms best describes the biggest impact on the Gilded Age?
Poverty and Disease
Innovation and Inventions
Capitalism and Communism
Entertainment and Sports
7
Which of the following brought the cattle drive era to an end?
drop in prices
barbed wire
blizzard
bears
8
What important technological development is being portrayed in the video?
factories
unions
technology
steel
9
Where did the cowboys drive the cattle to during the Cattle Drive Era?
Texas
The nearest railroad.
New York City
The sales ring.
10
Which sport had the first professional sports teams?
Football
Baseball
Basketball
Tennis
11
Which of the following was one of the most successful rail line owners?
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
12
What was the government program that gave people an opportunity to get very cheap land?
Land grants to the railroads.
Pioneering the Prairie
Purchasing land from the railroad companies.
Homestead Act of 1862
13
What entertainment form from the Gilded Age is presented in the video clip?
Theater
Vaudeville
Opera
Movies
14
What does laissez-faire mean?
"government intervention"
"government controlled"
"let the people do as the choose"
"let the people go to the fair"
15
Which of the following was one of the problems of Vaudeville?
Discrimination/Prejudicial/Racist Material
Magic Acts
Animal Acts
Variety acts
16
Which of the following is basically how big business dominated the American economy by 1900?
Small Business
Corporations
Partnerships
Sole Proprietorships
17
What regulated wages and prices in the late 1800s? (government = laissez-faire)
communism
the invisible hand (Adam Smith's theory)
Andrew Carnegie
supply and demand
18
Which of the following is NOT a cause of industrial expansion in the USA in the 1880s?
Increased supply of capital through wealthy industrialists.
Defeat of the Native Americans on the Great Plains.
Growing numbers of workers through immigration.
America's vast natural resources.
19
Which of the following attracted settlers to western territories?
Mining
Farming
Ranching
Industrializing
20
T/F Conflict between the Native Americans and the US government started after the Civil War.
False
True
21
How does Edison's Light Bulb represent the Gilded Age?
It made Edison the Wizard of Menlo Park.
The light bulbs lit up the night.
Vaudeville was now possible.
The wealthy were the first to benefit and profit from it.
22
Who was the U.S. Senator who wrote numerous laws that changed the fate of Native Americans?
Henry Dawes
George A. Custer
John M. Chivington
James Forsyth
23
Why is Ellis Island significant in the history of immigration in the USA?
It is where many people were denied entry into America.
It is where many people entered into America.
It is where many people were quarantined before entering USA
It is where many people were quarantined b/f being sent home
24
T/F Racism continued following the Reconstruction Era and segregation became legal in the USA.
FALSE
TRUE
25
The political cartoon shown is an example of Nativism towards which group of immigrants?
Muslims
Jews
Protestants
Catholics
26
Is the quotation from Red Cloud from before or after the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Was I supposed to read the quote?
How am I supposed to know?
After
Before
27
Which of the following is a PULL factor for immigrants coming to the USA?
Democratic political system
Wars and compulsory military service
Religious oppression
Farming poverty and worker uncertainty
28
Which of the following is a PUSH factor for immigrants coming to the USA?
Opportunity for social advancement
Political oppression/tyranny
Plenty of land for farming
Higher standards of living
29
T/F Most Vaudeville managers made sure that their acts were "clean" to attract large audiences.
True
False
30
What did workers organize and join to attempt to gain more rights and power from the companies?
Union
Organization
Associations
Amalgamation
31
T/F A holding company produces its own products and owns stock in companies that produce goods.
TRUE
FALSE
32
Who helped to develop motion pictures into a reliable medium?
Porter
Eastman
Kodak
Edison
33
T/F Bison once numbered more than 60,000,000 but by 1894, there were less than 100 remaining.
False
True
34
What was the result of the Comstock Lode?
Miners and investors left the American West for Canada.
Silver went up in price.
Virginia City, Nevada became a "boomtown."
The United States government lost interest in the West.
35
How did Carnegie amass all of his economic power?
Trusts
Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
Monopolies
36
Name the first rail line to connect the East Coast and West Coast and when was it completed?
Northern Pacific Railroad, 1883
Central Pacific Railroad, 1862
Transcontinental Railroad, 1869
The New Silk Road, 2017
37
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the transformation of American society in the 1880s?
Settling of the American West
Setting of the American East
Expansion of American Industry
Growth of cities
38
T/F "New immigrants" from Southern and Eastern Europe experienced discrimination in the USA.
FALSE
TRUE
39
What was the conflict between the US government and Native Americans about?
Land
Sovereignty
Cultural Differences
Hunting Rights
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What is the term for the extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people?
Narcissism
Racism
Discrimination
Nativism
