History Test 2

Question 1

The social trend that caused the demand for beef to rise immediately following the Civil War was that cities in
the ______

Answer 1

East and West increased in population.

Question 2

Corporation

Answer 2

A business that is owned by investors

Question 3

Collective Bargaining

Answer 3

The right of unions to negotiate with management for workers as a group

Question 4

A major result of the Homestead Act of 1862 was ________

Answer 4

increased development of western lands.

Question 5

Pool

Answer 5

Railroad companies divided up the business in the area, then fixed their prices at a higher level

Question 6

Monopoly

Answer 6

Control of all or nearly all the business of an industry

Question 7

Hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children were killed by the U.S. army at ______

Answer 7

Wounded Knee.

Question 8

Capitalism

Answer 8

Business are owned by private citizens

Question 9

The primary goal of the _____ was to encourage American Indians to become farmers.

Answer 9

Dawes Act

Question 10

Miners in the West created groups of ______

Answer 10

vigilantes to enforce laws and punish criminals.

Question 11

Sweatshop

Answer 11

a workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay

Question 12

The chronological order of the following events are _____

Answer 12

Haymarket Riot; Homestead Strike; Pullman Strike;
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Question 13

Resist

Answer 13

to fight against

Question 14

The economic practice that helps motivate companies to keep prices low and improve product quality is called _____

Answer 14

competition.

Question 15

Many African American inventors were unable to benefit from their discoveries because of _______

Answer 15

difficulties getting
patents.

Question 16

The area that airplanes first proved to be of practical value was for

Answer 16

military operations.

Question 17

___________ linking the West and the East enabled people and supplies to move cheaply
contributed MOST to this process toward statehood.

Answer 17

The expansion of major rail lines

Question 18

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 18

one that stretches across the country from one coast to another

Question 19

Morrill Acts

Answer 19

set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts

Question 20

Inflation

Answer 20

increasing the money supply causes increased prices and wreck the economy

Question 21

Moving assembly line

Answer 21

method of production where workers stay in one place as production moves along a
belt

Question 22

Mass Production

Answer 22

making large quantities of product quickly and cheaply

Question 23

Patent

Answer 23

Licenses for new inventions

Question 24

Triangular Fire

Answer 24

Fire that killed over a 150 people mostly women at the Triangular Shirtwaist Factory, a
sweatshop in New York City

Question 25

_______ was a factor that further reduced future opportunities for children at work before 1910.
The American Federation of Labor differed from the Knights of Labor in that it included ______

Answer 25

Limiting education
several trade unions.

Question 26

Reservation

Answer 26

a limited area set aside for American Indians