American History II, Bench 1

Question 1

African American Soldiers who fought against the western Indians were called ___

Answer 1

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 2

____ was a leading Democratic and Populist party member in 1896.

Answer 2

William Jennings Bryan

Question 3

By 1890, the official policy to assimilate western Native American Indians included the _____Act passed by Congress.

Answer 3

Dawes Act

Question 4

The ____ Act attempted to end patronage of Federal Government employment.

Answer 4

Pendleton Act

Question 5

The most famous political machine was called ____.

Answer 5

Tammany Hall in New York City.

Question 6

The _____ allowed for 160 acres of free land in the western lands if settlers would live there for at least 5 years.

Answer 6

Homestead Act

Question 7

The ____ movement proved assistance to urban poor and immigrants.

Answer 7

Settlement Movement

Question 8

Chinese and Irish immigrants were the primary workforce in building the ____.

Answer 8

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 9

____ was a leader in the Steel industry

Answer 9

Andrew Carnegie

Question 10

____ was a leader in the Oil industry

Answer 10

John D. Rockefeller

Question 11

_____ was responsible for closing off the wild open west.

Answer 11

Barbed Wire

Question 12

Many western great plains settlers lived in ____ homes

Answer 12

Sod houses

Question 13

Free land to homesteaders, new economic opportunities, and religious freedom were all reasons for people to move ____

Answer 13

to the western frontier.

Question 14

interstate Commerce Act and Hepburn Act were to regulate the ____

Answer 14

railroad monopolies.

Question 15

The Grange and Populist Party both worked for improving the lives of ____ in the west and south.

Answer 15

farmers

Question 16

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed and allowed for ____

Answer 16

nationwide transportation of goods and people.

Question 17

Many immigrants came to America attempting to leave the “Old Country” and social pressures ____ and ____.

Answer 17

family commitments and economic opportunities.

Question 18

Two major government scandals in latter 1800s were ___ and ____.

Answer 18

Whiskey Ring and Credit Moblier.

Question 19

one of the first laws to limit immigrants to the United States was the ______ Exclusion Act.

Answer 19

Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 20

Supervising railroad’s monopolistic behavior was the primary job of the ____.

Answer 20

Interstate Commerce Commission.

Question 21

J. P. Morgan’s industry was ____

Answer 21

Banking

Question 22

Industries that controlled all aspects of the means of production from raw materials to manufacturing to transportation to retail was known as conducting _____ business practices.

Answer 22

Vertical Integrated monopoly

Question 23

Eugene Debs is most associated with the ____ Union

Answer 23

American Railway Union

Question 24

Jacob Riis wrote about ____ in his book “How the Other Half Lives”

Answer 24

Immigrants in Ethnic Ghettos

Question 25

The invention of the refrigerated railcar allowed fresh ____ to be transported across the country.

Answer 25

fresh meat, fruits, and vegitables

Question 26

Helen Hunt Jackson believed that _____ was oppressed by government policies.

Answer 26

Native American Indians.

Question 27

The leader of the American Federation of Labor was ____.

Answer 27

Samuel Gompers

Question 28

The _____ Movement’s goal was to have Christians help to improve working conditions and aid impoverished people

Answer 28

Social Gospel Movement

Question 29

____ was a famous political cartoonist.

Answer 29

Thomas Nast

Question 30

The Pendleton Act was supposed to end the ______ set up many years before by President Andrew Jackson

Answer 30

Spoils System

Question 31

_____ made a speech to the US Congress where he pledged “To fight no more forever” because his Nez Perce people had tried to escape but were finally captured.

Answer 31

Chief Joseph

Question 32

The ______ as defined by Mark Twain meant that the popular image of the lifestyles of the rich concealed extensive corruption and greed.

Answer 32

Gilded Age

Question 33

______ believed that new immigrants would take their jobs and thus pressured the government and other Americans to discriminate against new immigrants.

Answer 33

Nativists

Question 34

Rockefeller constantly attempted to eliminate his competition in the oil business through _____ of the industry.

Answer 34

Horizontal Integration

Question 35

The height of _____ immigration to the United States occurred after 1880.

Answer 35

Eastern and Southern European.