Test 8, Chapters 15-16

Question 1

Why did Chicago become a great, prosperous city?

Answer 1

rich prairie soil, great railroads, hard-working people

Question 2

What took place at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869?

Answer 2

workers completed the first transcontinental railroad

Question 3

What former shoe salesman became a great evangelist across America?

Answer 3

D.L. Moody

Question 4

Which man was saved at the Pacific Garden Mission and later founded 67 rescue missions?

Answer 4

Mel Trotter

Question 5

What was invented by Thomas Alva Edison?

Answer 5

incandescent light bulb

Question 6

How did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

Answer 6

steel

Question 7

What is the term for one who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product?

Answer 7

entrepreneur

Question 8

With which inventor did Thomas Watson work?

Answer 8

Alexander Bell

Question 9

What hymnist published “Blessed Assurance” and many other hymns in the late 1800’s?

Answer 9

Fanny Crosby

Question 10

Who is considered to be the greatest inventor in American history?

Answer 10

Thomas Edison

Question 11

Which man made his fortune in the oil industry?

Answer 11

John D. Rockefeller

Question 12

For what invention is Christopher Sholes remembered?

Answer 12

typewriter

Question 13

Who was DL Moody’s song leader?

Answer 13

Ira Sankey

Question 14

The first modern American skyscraper

Answer 14

Wainwright Building

Question 15

George Washington Carver developed hundreds of uses for the

Answer 15

peanut

Question 16

What area did the Sioux Indians regard as sacred?

Answer 16

Black Hills

Question 17

Which legislative act encouraged the Indians to take up farming or ranching?

Answer 17

Dawes Act

Question 18

In which territory was gold discovered in 1858?

Answer 18

Colorado

Question 19

What legislative act opened the Great Plains for settlement in 1862?

Answer 19

Homestead Act

Question 20

In what year did the US census say the frontier had been settled?

Answer 20

1890

Question 21

What was a common type of housing for settlers on the prairie?

Answer 21

sod houses

Question 22

Which chief led the Indians in the battle at Little Bighorn?

Answer 22

Crazy Horse

Question 23

Who drilled the first oil well?

Answer 23

Edwin Drake

Question 24

Who called the period 1865-1900 the “Gilded Age”?

Answer 24

Mark Twain

Question 25

What did Sir Henry Bessemer develop?

Answer 25

steel-making process

Question 26

legislated the Pendleton Act

Answer 26

Chester Arthur

Question 27

only President to serve two non-consecutive terms

Answer 27

Grover Cleveland

Question 28

favored a gold standard

Answer 28

William McKinley

Question 29

shot after four months in office by a disappointed political office seeker

Answer 29

James Garfield

Question 30

first Democrat to be elected President after Civil War

Answer 30

Grover Cleveland

Question 31

provided for examinations for civil-service workers

Answer 31

Pendleton Act

Question 32

known as the “Centennial State”

Answer 32

Colorado

Question 33

regulated railroads

Answer 33

ICC

Question 34

stated that segregation was legal

Answer 34

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 35

first state to allow women’s suffrage (right to vote)

Answer 35

Wyoming

Question 36

The Otis Brothers produced

Answer 36

elevators

Question 37

President _______ was influential in admitting six western states during his term.

Answer 37

Benjamin Harrison

Question 38

The Populist party also included those supporting a “________” policy.

Answer 38

free silver

Question 39

_____ became President after the assassination of President Garfied.

Answer 39

Chester Arthur

Question 40

General Lew Wallace wrote _____.

Answer 40

Ben-Hur

Question 41

Which poet became famous as “the Hoosier poet”?

Answer 41

James Whitcomb Riley

Question 42

Which poet’s works were not published until after her death?

Answer 42

Emily Dickinson

Question 43

Name the artist who became well known for painting cowboys and Indians

Answer 43

Frederic Remington

Question 44

Who was nicknamed “the March King”?

Answer 44

John Philip Sousa

Question 45

Name the two artists who provided us with a pictoral history of American life in the 19th century.

Answer 45

Currier and Ives

Question 46

What author wrote the famous novel Little Women?

Answer 46

Louisa May Alcott

Question 47

Why did many farmers want the government to print more paper money in the decades following the Civil War? Why would this practice actually hurt the economy?

Answer 47

The farmers wanted the gov. to print more money and increase the supply of money in circulation because it would bring inflation, the rapid increase of prices. They believed that inflation would increase the prices they received for their crops and make it easier to pay off their loans. The problem with this practice is that inflation makes it more difficult for everyone, including farmers, to buy the things they need.

Question 48

How did the philanthropy of men like Andrew Carnegie help all Americans?

Answer 48

He and others like him invested money and effort that created thousands of jobs. They also gave much of their wealth away to needy people & private charities. During his life, Carnegie gave away more than $350 million. He donated 7000 pipe organs to churches and built over 3000 public libraries.

Question 49

Know the following locations on the map of Mexico:

Answer 49

Rio Grande, Lake Chapala, Yucatan Peninsula, Bay of Campeche, Gulf of California, Chihuahua, Citlaltepetl, Gulf of Tehuantepec, Baja California Sur, Mexico City