Lesson 3 Multiple Choice Flashcards
Transportation in the 1800’s was vastly improved by the development of _______, _______, and ______
canals, turnpikes, railroads
Inventors often seek _______ to protect their inventions
Patents
Andrew Carnegie developed the theory called
“Gospel of Wealth”
Sweatshops were places where
employees worked long hours at low wages
Many employers disliked and feared unions because
they preferred to deal with employees as individuals and they feared costs would go up if they had to meet union demands
Exodusters were
freed African Americans who immigrated to the West
The United States government tried to restrict the movement of Native Americans with the
reservation policy
Mining spread throughout the West with the discovery of gold in 1859 in the mountains of
Colorado
Widespread cattle ranching became possible on the Great Plains because
the Native Americans and the buffalo had been removed from the Plains
The Populists built their policies around the following issue:
increasing the use of silver and the circulation of more money
In the late 1800’s, businesses claimed that _____ protected American factory jobs
tariffs
Though pioneer life is often romanticized in novels and movies, most _______ found the life difficult
homesteaders
In the late 1800’s, the federal government opened the Oklahoma Native American Territory to settlers became known as the ______ and the ______
Boomers, Sooners
Workers called in by an employer to replace strikers were known as
scabs
Formed in 1886 under the leadership of _______, the American Federation of Labor was a craft union
Samuel Gomperson
