STAAR UNIT 2: Gilded Age - Westward Expansion

Question 1

Economic system in which individuals and businesses are allowed to compete for profit minimum of government interference

Accepted Answer

Free Enterprise

Question 2

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

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Labor Unions

Question 3

Amendments: Freedom of the slaves

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Question 4

Established the Standard Oil Company and was a successful robber baron

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John D. Rockefeller

Question 5

The government is "hands-off" toward the economy

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Laissez-Faire

Question 6

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the _____ Steel Company in 1892.

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 7

An area west of the Mississippi River and East of the Rocky Mountains

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Great Plains

Question 8

Any adult citizen could claim 160 acres of land to live on and care for

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Homestead Act

Question 9

Amendments: Citizenship to the former slaves

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Question 10

The process in which a minority culture comes to resemble a society's major group through their language and customs

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Assimilation

Question 11

A time of rapid economic and industrial growth that featured wide-spread corruption

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Gilded Age

Question 12

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban areas (cities)

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Urbanization

Question 13

A mass migration of people to Alaska and Canada in search of Gold

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Klondike Gold Rush

Question 14

American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company and of the modern assembly line

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Henry Ford

Question 15

the process of starting, organizing, managing, and assuming the responsibility for a business

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Entrepreneurship

Question 16

Restricting immigration into the US, due to fear of Chinese immigrants taking jobs from white Citizens

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Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 17

Explored the newly purchased territory from the Louisiana Purchase

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Lewis and Clark

Question 18

American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, leading to workers being able to work longer hours

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Thomas Edison

Question 19

Amendments: Voting rights to all men (former slaves)

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Question 20

A railroad that crosses the continental United States and allowed for people to move and travel freely

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Transcontinental Railroad

Question 21

This was a book written by Carnegie that described the responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists.

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Gospel of Wealth

Question 22

the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

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Industrialization

Question 23

Creator of the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

Question 24

Court Cases: Effectively legalized segregation

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

STAAR UNIT 2: Gilded Age - Westward Expansion

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STAAR UNIT 2: Gilded Age - Westward Expansion

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