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West-Industry-Urbanization 1. What is another
name for the Great Plains? 2. What two things
were many Plains Indians dependent upon? 3. Name
four Plains Indian tribes? 4. Why did the
railroads extend to the west? 5. What animal did
the railroads nearly drive to extinction? 6. What
is a cross-country railroad called? 7. Name the
two railroads that built the first cross-country
railroad? 8. Where and when was the railroad
completed? 9. What was the basic conflict between
settlers and Indians? 10. What Indian lands were
invaded by miners looking for gold? 11. Name the
battle where Custer and his men were
defeated? 12. Name the two Indian leaders at
Custers Last Stand? 13. Who was Chief of the Nez
Pierce Indians? 14. Name the last of the Indian
battles? 15. What law gave Indian families 160
acres of land? 16. What name was given to the
area where cattle were ranched? 17. Why did the
demand for cattle increase? 18. How was the life
of the cowboy different than what we imagine? 19.
What invention of Joseph Gliddens changed the
frontier? 20. Name four areas where the country
faced a gold rush? 21. What is a Ghost Town? 22.
What were the short stories that told of legend
and adventure in the west? 23. What law created
160 acre farms for settlers? 24. Name three
technological advances that improved life on the
frontier? 25. Type of house that many Plains
families first built? 26. Name three reasons that
farming began to decline in the late 1800s? 27.
What is the overall decrease in the price of
goods called? 28. How did this hurt farmers? 29.
What did farmers want to do to stop this
trend? 30. What group often took advantage of
farmers and their dependency? 31. What is the
other name for the Grange? 32. What were Granger
laws? 33. What political party formed to replace
the Grange? 34. Name several reforms proposed by
the new Peoples Party? 35. What was the overall
theme of the 1896 Presidential campaign? 36. What
was the Cross of Gold Speech? 37. Name the two
candidates for President in 1896? 38. Who wins
the 1896 election? 39. Name three reasons why the
United States became the worlds leading
economy? 40. What policy has the government not
interfering in peoples lives? 41. What laws
protected American businesses from foreign
competition? 42. The idea that large businesses
can operate more efficiently? 43. Who invented
the telephone? 44. Who perfected the incandescent
light bulb and the phonograph? 45. What industry
helped bring about standardized time zones? 46.
Why did some people dislike big businesses? 47.
What are the advantages of big businesses? 48.
What was Horatio Alger known for? 49. This is a
type of business that controls the supply of a
product? 50. When a business controls all other
companies of the same type? 51. When a business
controls other companies that contribute to that
industry?
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West-Industry-Urbanization 52. Leader of the
Standard Oil Company? 53. Leader of the steel
industry? 54. Major banking leader in the
nation? 55. Leading railroad owner? 56. Wrote an
article exposing the evils of the Standard Oil
Company? 57. Theory that the best business will
survive and prosper? 58. The practice of giving
away large sums of wealth? 59. Name given to the
major owners of the big businesses? 60. Federal
Law that attempted to regulate the activities of
big businesses? 61. Monopoly formed by creating
one large company out of several companies? 62.
Monopoly formed by the leaders of several
businesses acting as one? 63. Describe working
conditions in the late 1800s? 64. What was a
company town? 65. What is the job of a labor
union? 66. What method did unions use to try and
achieve their goals? 67. What is a blacklist? 68.
What is a lockout? 69. What were replacement
workers called? 70. A court order to stop
striking is called? 71. In what way did the
Federal Government get involved in strikes? 72.
Which Labor Union accepted all types of
workers? 73. What happened at Haymarket Square
that hurt the goal of unions? 74. What type of
worker was allowed to join the AFL? 75. How was
an industrial union different? 76. Who was the
leader of the Knights of Labor? 77. Who led the
AFL? 78. Who started the Industrial Union
movement? 79. Where were the first immigrants to
the United States from? 80. What advantages did
these immigrants have? 81. How did immigration
change in the later 1800s? 82. What are ethnic
neighborhoods? 83. What group did the government
ban from further immigration in 1882? 84. What
were three reasons that cities were growing so
fast in the late 1800s? 85. What were the
cramped, poorly built apartment buildings of the
cities called? 86. What book did Jacob Riis
write? 87. What was Riis book about? 88. Who
started Hull House in Chicago? 89. What was Hull
House? 90. What large American city was nearly
destroyed by fire in 1871? 91. Name several
things that began to improve the quality of urban
living? 92. What term is used to describe the
action of stealing money from the government? 93.
What term describes the process of getting paid
to give out govt projects? 94. What is a
political machine? 95. Why were political
machines able to control an area? 96. What famous
political machine controlled New York City? 97.
What famous cartoonist helped to expose the
corruption of the machine? 98. What kind of
scandal was Credit Mobilier? 99. Congress was
often accused of being controlled by these groups
in the later 1800s? 100. Which President first
began a campaign to reform the government? 101.
Which President was assassinated over trying to
reform the corrupt government? 102. What is the
Pendelton Act? 103. What was the major issue in
federal politics between 1884 and 1896?