History Gilded Age

Question 1

Dawes Act

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the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals

Question 2

Buffalo soldiers

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black cavalry troops with dark, curly hair, which resembled a buffalo’s coat and because of their fierce nature of fighting

Question 3

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace

Question 4

American Federation of Labor

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a trade union organized in support of labor reform

Question 5

Pendleton Act

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provided that federal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams

Question 6

Alexander Graham Bell

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invented the telephone and the refined of the phonograph

Question 7

Andrew Carnegie

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One of the captains of industry of 19th century America; helped build the American steel industry

Question 8

Booker T. Washington

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first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Question 9

Charles Darwin

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defined evolution as “descent with modification,” the idea that species change over time, give rise to new species, and share a common ancestor

Question 10

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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built his wealth in railroads and shipping

Question 11

George Pullman

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designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it

Question 12

George Washington

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first American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, and farmer

Question 13

Henry Bessemer

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evolutionized steelmaking with his Bessemer Process, which centered on the Bessemer converter, a machine that blew compressed air through pig iron

Question 14

JP Morgan

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American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street

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John D. Rockefeller

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founder of Standard Oil in 1870

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Mark Twain

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American humorist, novelist, and travel writer and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time

Question 17

P.T. Barnum

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American showman who employed sensational forms of presentation and publicity to popularize such amusements as the public museum, the musical concert, and the three-ring circus

Question 18

Samuel Colt

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American firearms inventor, manufacturer, and entrepreneur who popularized the revolver

Question 19

Samuel Gompers

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founded the American Federation of Labor and served as its president for nearly forty years

Question 20

Samuel Morse

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scientific work on a blockbuster technology of the nineteenth century, the telegraph

Question 21

Thomas Edison

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developed one of the first practical light bulbs

Question 22

W.E.B DuBois

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NAACP’s director of publicity and research and the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University

Question 23

Wright Brothers

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clever bicycle mechanics who somehow invented the airplane