quiz 2

Question 1

Jay Gould and James Fisk planned to corner what market?

Answer 1

gold market

Question 2

Name the scandal/railroad construction company that involved congressmen taking bribes in exchange for favorable legislation

Answer 2

credit mobilier

Question 3

Name the scandal involving U.S. Treasury officials and liquor distillers who planned to steal millions in liquor taxes.

Answer 3

whiskey ring

Question 4

To which state did most blacks migrate following the war?

Answer 4

Kansas

Question 5

What were blacks who went to Kansas called?

Answer 5

Exodusters

Question 6

Name the supreme court case tat ruled against segregation did not discriminate as long as accommodations for both races were equal?

Answer 6

Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 7

Walter Prescott Webb defined the frontier by what ratio?

Answer 7

land, man ratio

Question 8

What institute did Booker T. Washington found in Alabama in 1881?

Answer 8

Tuskegee Institute

Question 9

What activist made lynching her issue?

Answer 9

Ida B Wells

Question 10

People who went west after the Civil War were called what?

Answer 10

Overlanders

Question 11

Name the act that gave 160 acres of land to someone who lived on it for five years and built 12x14 foot house on it.

Answer 11

Homestead Act

Question 12

Name the railroad that ran from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California

Answer 12

transcontinental railroad

Question 13

At what place in Utah did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad meet?

Answer 13

Promontory Point

Question 14

Name the commander of the 7th Cavalry who was decimated by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Answer 14

Custer

Question 15

On the banks of what Montana river did the battle between the US Army and the Sioux take place?

Answer 15

Little Bighorn

Question 16

In 1860, Texas had five million what roaming the open range?

Answer 16

Cattle longhorn

Question 17

What natural element was the key to the West?

Answer 17

water

Question 18

What region of the country was called the Great American desert?

Answer 18

great plains

Question 19

In Texas it is still a felony to cut what?

Answer 19

fence cutting

Question 20

Name the historian who defined the frontier a 2-6 people living per square mile

Answer 20

Jackson Turner

Question 21

BQ: Name the tree million acre ranch that was located in the western Texas panhandle

Answer 21

XIT ranch

Question 22

New form of slavery, pay rent.

First of the month rent gets First of the month rent gets paid

Answer 22

Tenant farming

Question 23

New form of slavery, pay rent.

Give landowner a percentage of crops

Answer 23

Sharecroppers

Question 24

Invents cigarette rolling machine

Answer 24

J. Bonsack

Question 25

American tobacco

Answer 25

Duke

Question 26

Court rules 7-1 to uphold Louisiana law, case loses. From this comes the doctrine of separate but equal

Answer 26

Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 27

Preaches black education beyond vocational skills. Firmly opposed to segregation

Answer 27

DuBois - education

Question 28

Many of these animals lived on plains. Served many uses such as food, clothing, weapons, armor, utensils.
(native American hunted these)

Answer 28

Buffalo

Question 29

Treaty that ends the Sioux war

Answer 29

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Question 30

battle fought between Custer and the Sioux

Answer 30

Custer’s Last Stand

Question 31

What was the historic cattle trail used in the late 19th century for cattle drives from Texas to Kansas?

Answer 31

Chisolm Trail

Question 32

What was different with men and women on the plains?

Answer 32

women had equality to men

Question 33

Gatlin gun

Answer 33

heavy

Question 34

Single-shot rifle

Answer 34

weapon

Question 35

Black Friday

Answer 35

stock market crashes. gold prices rise